News Releases
University names building after world-renowned psychologist
6/2/17
TWU’s Board of Regents today voted to rename the Human Development Building (HDB) on the university’s Denton campus for Richard W. Woodcock, Ph.D., whose series of tests for cognition, achievement and reading have set the worldwide standard for psychological assessment.
Dallas Morning News: Texas Woman’s University gets $10 million gift
6/23/15
Texas Woman's University has gotten a $10 million gift from a foundation created by psychologist Richard W. Woodcock. The gift from the Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation in Nashville is the largest single donation in TWU history. Woodcock is dissolving the foundation with the gift to TWU.
Watch: TWU Woodcock Institute press conference
6/17/15
Texas Woman’s University announced today a historic milestone with statewide, national and international implications for health sciences professionals, psychologists, educators and others working in fields related to neurocognitive research and applied practice, and the communities they serve.
Denton Record-Chronicle: TWU to receive $10 million donation
6/17/15
Texas Woman’s University officials will announce today that Richard W. Woodcock is donating roughly $10 million to the university, the largest gift in university history.
Historic gift to launch Woodcock Institute for Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice
6/17/15
A gift of nearly $10 million from a foundation created by world-renowned psychologist and psychometrician Richard W. Woodcock will put Texas Woman’s University at the center of interdisciplinary research into cognitive and achievement assessments and advancing effective clinical practice for two-year-olds to octogenarians.