SMU selects their top stories of 2008

by PegNews wire

One of the stories that didn't make the list involves a campus-wide outbreak of killer bees. The fact that it didn't really happen might be the reason for its omission.

The folks in the news office at Southern Methodist University have waded through the happenings on and about campus over the year 2008 and selected a baker's dozen of the most impactful ones, which (in their opinion) are:

* Bush Library officially gets a home

* Student Olympians travel to Beijing

* Groundbreaking on the new Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development building

* University President accepts 36 of 38 recommendations made by student task force on substance abuse - but shoots down the campus pub idea

* SMU law students do best in state in bar exam testing

Here's another thing that didn't actually happen - but it would have ended up on the list if it had, I'm betting.

* Resident political experts perform daring feats of national election analysis

* "Skunk works" style engineering lab announced in conjunction with Lockheed

* Kickoff of the largest fundraising campaign in the school's history, with a goal of raising $750 million ("SMU Unbridled: The Second Century Campaign")

* Researchers from the Dept. of Physics get in on the CERN Supercollider hooplah

* June Jones named as head football coach

* BusinessWeek ranks the Cox School among the top 20 business schools in the U.S.

* Geothermal mapping research attracts attention of Google

* Opening of Center for Family Counseling at the SMU-in-Legacy campus (Plano)

posted by JM