September 02, 2026 

News worth sharing from Texas Christian University

Matt Garcia, holder of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show Professorship in Ranch Management and director of Texas Christian University’s School of Ranch Management, recently discussed how ranchers approach wildfires and how the program in the Louise Dilworth Davis College of Science & Engineering is preparing ranching professionals to deal with these inevitable challenges.

Texas Christian University has received a $1.8 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families to conduct a rigorous evaluation of the Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Early Childhood Home Visiting Program for adoptive families. 

Administered through the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development in the Louise Dilworth Davis College of Science & Engineering, the project will evaluate an in-home program that equips adoptive and foster-to-adopt caregivers with practical strategies to strengthen relationships with their children and support children's behavioral and emotional regulation.