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Marketing the Super Bowl

Trinity University professor Charlene Davis tracks advertising for premier sports event
It didn't matter whether she liked sports, especially football, but as a marketing professor at Trinity University, Charlene Davis knew she couldn't ignore Super Bowl commercials. more>>

A Health Care Visit While Grocery Shopping

National trend takes retail clinics to places where consumers routinely go, says Trinity University professor
Health care providers are beginning to face the reality that people do not get sick only between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. To make treatment more convenient, retail clinics are opening in grocery and drug stores, a trend studied by Amer Kaissi, associate professor of health care administration at Trinity University. more>>

Researching Artifacts with an Uncertain Future

Mark Garrison, the Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History, has spent his academic career studying ancient clay tablets that are now the subject of a terrorist court case
Once a month, Mark Garrison, the Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History at Trinity University, travels to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, enters an archive room and opens boxes filled with 2,500-year-old clay tablets found in the ruins of Persepolis, one of the capital cities of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, located in southwest Iran. more>>

Hooked on Math

Brian Miceli, who teaches the art of counting at Trinity University, says math students get addicted to hard problems
No one would admit to hating literature or art, so Trinity University mathematics professor Brian Miceli is put off by people who claim they detest math. What's not to like, he asks, and the answer may lie in the branch of math that he studies - combinatorics - which he describes as the art of counting.more>>

Keeping an Open Mind

This philosophy guides Trinity University political science professor Mary Ann Tétreault
Mary Ann Tétreault, the Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity University, has had a long and distinguished career as a political scientist, but she also has learned an important lesson during her journey through college classrooms - be open minded. more>>

Directing Meaningful Dialogue On and Off-Stage

Roberto Prestigiacomo, associate professor of human communication and theatre, combines love of theatre and teaching into the AtticRep Theatre Company
Prestigiacomo, associate professor in the department of human communication and theatre at Trinity University, is co-founder and producing artistic director of AtticRep, which will soon begin its sixth season as the theatre company in residence at Trinity. more>>

Plan T: Bringing it All Back to the Classroom

Engineering Science Professor Jack Leifer explains how his various interests intersect
Jack Leifer, associate professor of engineering science at Trinity University, was gratified at his first meeting of the Brooks Development Authority board when he reviewed a spread sheet of bids by five firms competing for a $70,000 job contract. more>>

Deep Thoughts on Music and Film

Andrew Kania, associate professor of philosophy, reflects on fundamental questions about the nature of the arts and in particular, about music and movies.
In his second year as an undergraduate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Andrew Kania, an Auckland native, took a class that would set the course for his future academic career. more>>

Beyond Books

Trinity Librarian Diane Graves personifies the modern librarian who promotes information access and preaches ‘No illegal downloads!'
At the tender age of 7, Trinity University librarian Diane Graves already was affixing call numbers to the spines of books. more>>

Lessons from the Civil War

Carey Latimore, assistant professor of history, reflects on the meaning of America's Watershed Event
As America marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War this year, discussions, some of them heated, have renewed over the causes of the conflict and the lessons to be learned from this defining moment in the nation's history. more>>

Teaching the Joy of Music

Music professor Diane Persellin shares her passion with elementary school students, future teachers, and educators

Every summer music teachers from around the state come to Trinity University for a workshop that has them singing, dancing, beating drums, and playing marimba-like instruments. more>>

The Search for Gravitational Waves

Trinity University physics professor Dennis Ugolini is part of prestigious collaboration

All it took was a seventh-grade field trip to a particle accelerator facility 10 miles from his family's home in Illinois to spark a love for physics in Trinity professor Dennis Ugolini. more>>

From Goethe to Green Literature

German Professor Heather Sullivan brings a humanities approach to environmental studies. Plus teaches the startling origins of fairy tales.

Heather Sullivan, associate professor of German, has always been attracted to environmental questions. more>>

Teaching the teachers

Angela Breidenstein finds joy in preparing the next generation of educators.

A funny thing happened to Angela Breidenstein on her way to law school. Like many Trinity University undergraduates, she got involved with a student volunteer group that took her off campus. more>>

Presidential Matters

Trinity political scientist David Crockett is a student of White House leadership .

David Crockett once viewed Barack Obama's election as the nation's 44th president as a possible harbinger of transformational governance in the tradition of Ronald Reagan or Franklin D. Roosevelt. more>>

Fighting for History's Future

Linda Salvucci is on a mission to keep history as an integral part of classrooms from elementary grades to high school.

Linda Salvucci, associate professor of history, is troubled by the teaching of history in grades K-12. more>>

Labor of Love

Trinity's Economist David Macpherson Studies Unions, Minimum Wage, Pensions.

When economic hard times hit, logic might dictate that an increase in minimum wages would benefit hourly-paid workers. more>>

Verbally Speaking

Psychologist Jane Childers receives NIH grant to study verb learning in children.

When a child begins talking, the first words all delighted parents hear are versions of "mom" and "dad." Soon the child adds more words to his or her vocabulary - most of them nouns. more>>

Chemists Bonding

Professor Nancy Mills joins network for senior women scientists, enjoys student interaction

For the first time in her life, Trinity University chemistry professor Nancy Mills found herself in a room of 50 faculty members from the academic disciplines of chemistry and physics. more>>

Diving into History

Classical studies professor Nicolle Hirschfeld excavates ancient shipwrecks

When she was a college student majoring in archeology, Nicolle Hirschfeld, now an assistant professor of classical studies at Trinity, heard the news of an amazing discovery: a shipwreck from 1300 B.C. more>>

Talking About Death - American Style

Sociologist Michael Kearl brings his research on death and dying to Denmark.

Earlier this year, Michael Kearl, professor of sociology, was being interviewed in Denmark by a female reporter for a Copenhagen newspaper . more>>

In a Sentimental Mood

English professor Claudia Stokes receives prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities award.

Like a good detective, Claudia Stokes, associate professor of English, follows leads to see where her research will take her. more>>

Predicting Earthquakes

Trinity University Geoscientist Focuses on How, Not If, Temblors Will Happen.

When Trinity geoscientist Glenn Kroeger talks about earthquakes and their resulting tsunamis, he sounds like a prophet of doom. more>>

Shedding Light on Cinematography

Communication professor explores the development of film lighting as an art form in Hollywood.

Patrick Keating, assistant professor of communication, finds the work of cinematographers illuminating. more>>

 

Accounting with a Heart

Trinity Business Administration Professor Also Supports ‘A Culture of Giving, Not Having'

When students seek counsel from Linda Specht, director of Trinity University's accounting program, she tells them to pick one subject area for the head and one for the heart. more>>

Latino Lit

Spanish professor Rita Urquijo-Ruiz introduces students to Latino culture through music, short stories, and performance art

For students who want to explore the richness of Latino culture, there could be no better guide than Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, assistant professor of Spanish at Trinity. more>>

Clandestine Crossings

Trinity sociologist documents the experiences of migrants who cross the border illegally and the human coyotes who guide them into South Texas

In the often heated debate over immigration and undocumented workers in the United States, one voice has been noticeably missing - the voice of the migrants themselves. more>>

The Power of Europe

Political Scientist Analyzes the Continent’s ‘Fragile Ego’

For centuries, Europeans have had an inferiority complex. Their quest for world dominance was first foiled by Muslims from the time of first Crusade in 1095 until the final Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 and later by Americans from 1776 until the present, according to Peter O'Brien, professor of political science at Trinity University. more>>

Periodicals and Pop Culture

Communication Professor Sammye Johnson Walks in Both Worlds of Online Publishing and Print Magazines

Despite evolving technology and business models that are giving rise to new journalistic trends, Trinity University communication professor Sammye Johnson says magazines still matter. But the digital world of publishing has caught her interest. more>>

She Rocks!

Trinity University Geoscientist Awarded Early CAREER Grant from National Science Foundation

Kathleen Surpless, assistant professor of geosciences at Trinity University, may be a sedimentary geologist by academic training, but her passion is solving puzzles. Not just any puzzles, but those comprised of rocks - once covered by oceans - but now exposed to the atmospheric elements after having been "sliced and diced" by Earth movements for millions of years. more>>

Artificial Intelligence - the Real Deal

Computer scientist Yu Zhang researches how AI is helping create a better world

Yu Zhang, assistant professor of computer science, is the first to admit that artificial intelligence can be very exciting in the movies, especially in films such as The Matrix. But what makes it attractive to her is how scientists are using computers and artificial intelligence to simulate and study real world social trends. more>>

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