Join us for our first Silver Frogs Luncheon Lecture featuring Khadevis Robinson, a 2-time Olympian and Director of TCU Track and Field. A Fort Worth native and 2009 inductee into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame, Robinson is one of the Horned Frogs' more decorated student-athletes and a two-time Olympian. Following his TCU days, Robinson enjoyed a distinguished professional career as one of the world's premier 800-meter runners. He represented the United States at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and then again in 2012 in London. 

A 1998 TCU graduate with a degree in social work, Robinson earned his master's degree in public administration from Cal State Los Angeles in 2004. While in Southern California, he co-founded the non-profit Youth Track and Running Club. He was selected as a 2008 Ken Doherty Memorial Fellowship recipient, presented annually by USA Track & Field to provide researchers with the time and resources to pursue the serious study of track and field. He collaborated with fellow recipient Anne Merrem on a project titled, "Performance Enhancing Drugs and the Clean Athlete." He has also served as president of the Track and Field Athletes Association. In 2019, Robinson was selected as a USA State Department Sports Envoy Ambassador, where he visited Zimbabwe and worked with the embassy on gender-based violence initiatives.

According to Robinson, "'It has been said that, major things happen in minor moments”, but the truth is, there are no minor moments. Major things happen when we make them happen. In 2000 and 2008, I was unfortunate enough to have finished the dreaded fourth at The USA Olympic Trials. Only the top three make the Olympic team. Each time, I would have to wait another 4 years before I would have the opportunity to make a team and each time I would go on to make an Olympic team. You see, adversity introduces a man to himself. Having escaped the inner city, graduated from a private christian university, obtained a Master’s degree, made two Olympic teams, authored a book, starting a nonprofit, coached at 3 top athletic universities in the nation, I have realized that Success Leaves Clues.'

South Africa is custodian to more than three-quarters of the world’s rhinos. Over the past five years, 5,279 rhinos have been killed in South Africa alone for their horns. Dr. Mike Slattery, Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at TCU, founded the TCU Rhino Initiative in 2014 in response to the A native of South Africa, Mike teamed up with Dr. William Fowlds, world-renowned wildlife vet and rhino conservationist at the Amakhala Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Together, TCU and Amakhala now work with nine other private game reserves in the region, as well as several NGOs, all collaborating to save the species. In this talk, Mike will provide updates from the field and his work on species and habitat management, education and awareness campaigns, advanced protection systems, and socioeconomic alternatives to poaching.

Established in 1957, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is the world’s largest flying museum. Comprised of more than 180 vintage military aircraft, the collection is used to educate, inspire and honor through flight and living history experiences. Join Hank Coates, Executive Director, as he shares information about the museum and goals for the future.