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Documentaries. Docudramas. Podcasts. YouTubers. Books. The true crime genre is rampant. Katherine Polzer, associate professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, talked to TCU News about navigating its magnetic draw.

The AddRan Ambassadors program is a transformational experience for students to learn how to market their liberal arts degree, enhance their leadership skills and gain real-world experience while paired with a mentor through a year-long program. Sophomore Jack Graham, a political science major from California, shares why he signed on to be an ambassador.

In recognition of his 42 years of dedicated service to his students and the greater Horned Frog community, James “Jim” Riddlesperger, Ph.D., has been nominated as a 2024 Piper Professor.

It may be one of TCU’s newer student organizations, but the TCU Mock Trial Team is already winning cases and making a name for itself on the competition circuit.

Board of Visitors member Lou Black ’90 has very fond memories of her four years in AddRan; she graduated with a bachelor’s in political science and a minor in general business. Her father had dreamed of attending the university, but couldn’t afford it. Instead, it was Black who finally made that family dream come true.

Board of Visitors member Nick Morales ’14 was just four months old when his parents moved the family from Colombia to the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas. When it came time to attend college, Morales explored other universities in the state, but quickly fell in love with TCU.

Ada Limón, the 24th United States Poet Laureate and recipient of a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, visited TCU’s campus in November 2023 as part of the Premier Green Chair lecture series. Limón is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

The National Council of Teachers of English's Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has named AddRan alumna Angela D. Mack (Ph.D. ’23) as the recipient of the 2024 CCCC James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Black Storytelling in Southside Funky Town, Texas: From the 76104 Zip Code to the Life and Legacy Work of Atatiana Carr-Jefferson as a Mattering of Black Life.”

U.S. News & World Report has ranked TCU No. 3 in the nation for 2024 Best Online Master's in Criminal Justice Programs, a rise of seven spots from last year’s ranking as No. 10. Since its creation in 2014, the online M.S. in Criminal Justice and Criminology Program has consistently been ranked among the nation’s best.