September 09, 2026 

News worth sharing from Texas Christian University

AI², TCU's campus-wide initiative to lead in ethical AI use, includes a computing cluster of 16 Nvidia GPUs housed in Texas Christian University’s own data center and is backed by partnerships with Amazon, Dell and Microsoft, giving faculty the processing power that AI research demands. 

The strategic investment supports work across the university and specifically in the Louise Dilworth Davis College of Science & Engineering, where undergraduate researchers are training a model to flag when a hospitalized child is headed for intensive care.

The mentorship and collaboration between the late Chris Watts (left) and Bernard Rousseau (right) left a lasting mark on TCU, extending beyond their own work to create opportunities for faculty and students in Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences.

That mentorship continues through the faculty whose bilingual vocabulary research earned the college its first institutionally awarded NIH R01 this year, and through the undergraduates training as the next generation of researchers.