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Kevin Knight, Ph.D., of TCU's Institute of Behavioral Research and partners at the University of Kentucky receive a $4.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to support a new study aimed at reducing overdose risk among women in the criminal legal system.

Zygmunt (Karol) Gryczynski, Ph.D., and TCU students Danh Pham ’28 and Rajveer Sagoo ’26 earn prestigious recognition with their paper on luminescence, featured as the front cover of the Luminescence Journal.

TCU's Institute of Behavioral Research launches its "Beauty Shop Study" to educate and empower local stylists about HIV prevention.

TCU’s College of Science & Engineering hosted its 21st annual Michael and Sally McCracken Student Research Symposium (SRS) spotlighting undergraduate and graduate student research.

Embracing the chance to be immersed into a new culture, conduct research, and grow personally and professionally, Brooke Boisvert's Fulbright experience has profoundly shaped her path through medical school and beyond.

Ze-Li Dou, associate professor in TCU’s mathematics department, Curby Alexander, associate professor of professional practice, and Liran Ma, professor of computer science, have been awarded a $220,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in recognition of their research and commitment to advancing scientific knowledge and education in the areas of deep learning security.

This year marks the 20th annual Michael and Sally McCracken Student Research Symposium (SRS) for the College of Science & Engineering. SRS, held on April 28 from 11:30 a.m.–3:45 p.m., offers a professional, yet relaxed environment for students to present their research and mingle with various departments.

ChatGPT is artificial intelligence that writes for you, which can include letters, song lyrics, research papers, recipes, poems, essays, outlines, even software code. Despite its clunky name (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), within five days of its launch, more than a million people were using it. Dr. Liran Ma, TCU computer science professor, explains the potential opportunities and challenges with this new-age language generation model.

October was first declared National Substance Abuse Prevention Month in 2011. It’s a time to highlight the important role of substance abuse prevention in both individual and community health, as well as an opportunity to remember those who have lost their lives to substance abuse. CSE's IBR and KPICD are working with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and other county juvenile probation departments on trying to prevent substance abuse in local and national communities.