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Dallas philanthropist Myers makes $2 million gift to Stroke Center
5/17/24
Dallas businessman and philanthropist Mike A. Myers has given a $2 million gift to Texas Woman’s stroke center to be used to expand research, patient and family services, and inter-professional training opportunities.
Alumna finds added reward in helping children with hearing loss
5/20/24
Texas Woman's alumna Phallon Doss is an audiologist who identifies and treats hearing loss in people from all walks of life. She is fluent in American Sign Language and can communicate directly with patients who also sign. Doss put her signing skills to good use last summer when she returned to Texas Woman’s Denton campus for the Future Classroom Lab’s two camps.
Free dental screening event for kids enters fifth year
4/2/24
Texas Woman’s students and faculty hope to elicit smiles instead of tears at the fifth annual TWU Giving Kids a Smile event on Saturday, April 6, at the TWU Dental Hygiene Clinic. The event, organized and run by dental hygiene students, provides free oral care services to children with significant dental needs.
Grad has sights on expanding care to her native Nepal
12/14/23
Melina Dhakal has spent the last seven years living and going to school in the United States. Her aspirations are to finish her education, gain experience as a speech-language practitioner and return to her home country of Nepal to help those who are most in need. Dhakal will graduate in December 2023 from Texas Woman’s University with a master’s degree in speech-language pathology.
Stroke Center’s new ambassador has disarming demeanor
12/4/23
Watson Polk has become an ambassador and a little bit of a celebrity at the Stroke Center. Polk uses a type of Augmentative and Alternative Communication device called eye-gaze technology to communicate. He volunteered on Wednesdays during the fall semester, helping Stroke Center clients communicate with their own AAC devices.