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TCU Press Celebrates Undergraduate

Research, Launches “The Boller Reivew”

“ “ Undergraduate research is an integral TCU Press will publish the journal each
fall and feature two research projects from
component of TCU’s curriculum. Many
Paul left a small bequest of the university’s schools and colleges each school or college.
to TCU Press and we provide funding support for student
believe The Boller research and professors actively mentor Submissions must meet the research
Review provides the students. To highlight these research guidelines and procedures established for
highest impact for that initiatives, as well as the students, nominations in each school/college, as
gift and serves as a artists and creative writers behind the outlines on their websites.
research, TCU Press has created a digital
valuable resource for the journal titled The Boller Review: A TCU “It’s important to note that two students
university.” Journal of Undergraduate Research and created this journal,” said Williams.

Dan Williams, TCU Press Director Creativity. “They researched online journals,
solicited research from our faculty,
“Paul left a small bequest to TCU Press developed the framework for the
and we believe The Boller Review publication and built the supporting
provides the highest impact for that gift website.”
and serves as a valuable resource for the
107 ANNIVERSARY OF university,” said Dan Williams, director Kit Snyder is a senior English major
TH
of TCU Press. “Undergraduate research
and creative writing minor who works
at TCU Press to learn about editing.
provides many benefits to students,
THE WACO FIRE including hands-on learning, development Upon graduation, she plans to work
of critical thinking and problem-solving
in university publishing, Sarah-Marie
skills and career preparation.
Horning, who is completing a graduate
her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
“Moreover, it benefits faculty members fellowship at TCU Press, earned both
T ragedy struck on March 22, 1910 when a fire erupted in the main building on TCU’s Waco campus, forcing the still- and TCU through enhanced teaching, the University of Central Florida. Her
interests include 20th century literature,
innovative and collaborative curricula and
fledgling institution to rethink its future and set it on a course to Fort Worth.
academic enthusiasm.”
American Southern literature and critical
One hundred seven years has passed, but no one knows exactly what started the fire. It’s a mystery likely never to be resolved. theory and she is the winner of the
The journal is organized by school or Society Prize for Outstanding Conference
According to Prologue: The TCU Library to 1983, on March 22, 1910, “just after study hours had begun,” Buford Isaacks, then college and features downloadable Paper for her presentation on McCullers’
a student at the University writes, “many of us were disturbed because we smelled smoke and some where going from room to abstracts of each student’s research, The Member of the Wedding.
room looking for the cause. Then suddenly from the fourth floor we heard the cry, ‘Fire, fire, the building is on fire.’” No lives including posters, essays, graphic design
were lost, but of the supposedly fireproof structure, only the exterior walls remained intact. The interior was a total loss. “The work and video interviews. Additionally, The duo is working to develop a
severest loss,” according to Dean Hall, was the library, “nearly all of which was destroyed.” comments from faculty members who committee of students from various
advised, led or supported the students’ colleges to oversee the project going
From a collection valued at $15,000 and containing about 8,000 volumes the library was reduced to three dozen and five books... projects are available along with profiles forward in conjunction with a faculty
valued at about $65. of the students whose papers are currently advisory committee comprising one
under review, revision or ongoing, as well representative from each school/college
TCU ultimately found Fort Worth’s promise of fifty acres of land, $200,000, and connection to municipal utilities and streetcar as students in honors colloquia. and the library, and two representatives
access too good to pass up. The school rebuilt in Fort Worth that same year. (Amanda Sawyer, “Texas Christian University,” from the Office of Research.
Waco History.)

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