SMU and University Park may allow 3 person panel to decide Potomac Park’s value
Since the town approved the park's sale to build the Bush Library, its appraised value has jumped.
Friday, June 20, 2008
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SMU ranks 13th in Forbes’ “best university” rankings
If only they'd approved that on-campus pub!
Friday, May 16, 2008
SMU breaks ground on new Caruth Hall
Engineering education center on campus is almost fully funded.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
DFW Association for Business Economics hands out outstanding student awards
Cristina Pereira of TCU won first place and $1,000 for her essay, Does Financial Development Lead to Higher Economic Growth?
Sunday, May 4, 2008
SMU president vetoes campus pub concept, approves adding Friday morning classes
I would write a better tease but I'm too hungover.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
D-FW experts of all kinds recruited for upcoming Expelled panel
So, a biologist, film professor and Creation Institute editor walk into a theater...
Monday, April 28, 2008
UPDATED: Dallas mayor leads trade mission to China
Trip will promote trade, investment, tourism and non-stop flight
Council members have visited Tiananmen Square and signed a friendship agreement with Qingdao.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Dallas law firm Gardere Wynne Sewell announces winner of McCleary Leadership Scholarship
The $7,500 scholarship is presented every year to a second-year student at SMU's law school.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
SMU Earth Day events include plenty of stuff actually happening prior to Earth Day
Why wait until April 22 to get your green on? From recycling competitions to student leadership training, there's something on the agenda to tickle everyone's environmentally-friendly fancy.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Southern Methodist University hosts Hispanic issues forum
Featuring Raymond Rico of the National Immigration Law Center and Texas Senate candidate Rick Noriega
Speakers include Texas Senate candidate Rick Noriega.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Three graduates inducted into SMU’s Engineering Hall of Leaders
The three included a Chinese industrialist, a Silicon Valley pioneer, and a Dallas philanthropist.
Monday, March 31, 2008
SMU Student Senate approves campus pub concept
NEWS FLASH: college kids like beer.
Students are one step closer to enjoying a legal brewski on campus.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Documentary on Dallas attorney Louise Raggio to air on KERA
SMU's Louise Ballerstedt Raggio Endowed Lecture Series in Women's Studies was named for her.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
SMU women’s cross country earns all-academic honors
The Mustangs were one of 158 Division I teams to receive the 2007 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honor.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Obama sweeps SMU campus mock election
Does this mean he'll win in Tuesday's primary vote, and then in the November general election? (No.)
If the voting population of the country follows the lead of these students, Barack's a shoo-in.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Robert Dodson named new Director of Division of Music at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts
Renowned cellist is settling in Dallas.
Friday, Feb. 29, 2008
Colleges and universities all over the metroplex opening theater productions this week
From TCU to Collin Theater Center, 9 new plays and musicals are beginning their run.
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
UPDATED: Yes, the Bush library will be at SMU
At least there's no more "will they, won't they," right?
Friday, Feb. 22, 2008
SMU newsroom posts reminder about campus security procedures
Did you know that SMU employs a closed-circuit TV surveillance system? (You do now.)
Monday, Feb. 18, 2008
SMU receives “A” for safety from Reader’s Digest
This is not a joke. Although it's easy to think of it as one.
Monday, Feb. 11, 2008
KERA’s Think interviews UNT professor Dr. Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and SMU professor Dr. Dennis Simon
Dr. Eshbaugh-Soha and Dr. Simon will talk about Texas' influence on the presidential race.
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008
Martin Sheen to speak at SMU
He may not be the President, but he played one on TV.
Tate Lecture Series event features respected actor, human rights activist.
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008
SMU considering adding campus pub
The measure is aimed to curb drunken driving by letting the kids get tanked on campus.
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008
SMU authorities say suspect in student drugging case was not a university instructor, as originally reported
Regardless of his employment status, the man has been asked to stay away from campus.
Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
SMU remembers MLK campus speech
To highlight their week-long Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute, the university makes an historic on-campus speech downloadable.
Monday, Jan. 21, 2008
Caren Prothro and Perkins-Prothro Foundation give $3.6 million to SMU
Funds will be used to endow a faculty chair for the Dept. of Biological Sciences.
Friday, Jan. 18, 2008
WaterTower Theatre & SMU team up to present As You Like It this week
Plus, a new podcast with four actors from the cast.
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008
SMU journalism students cover presidential primaries for Fox 4/KDFW
(Apparently they don't realize that the Illuminati are firmly in control, rendering our democratic process futile.)
"Fox U News," as the partnership is dubbed, have finished up in Iowa and are now reporting live from New Hampshire.
Monday, Jan. 7, 2008
SMU researcher hunts plant fossils in Ethiopia
Bonnie Jacobs: making the Oligocene scene.
Talk about your globetrotting paleontologist family...
Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008
SMU discusses coaching opening with A&M’s Franchione
The position has been open since SMU coach Phil Bennett was fired in October.
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007
SMU paleontological team searches for Antarctic fossils
Professor Louis Jacobs and two Geological Science grad students are spending December enjoying the snowy summer down under.
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007
SMU curator sheds new light on pioneer photographer
Technically proficient - and he looks great in buckskins, too.
DeGolyer's Peterson will author books, launch exhibits on Civil War-era photos taken by Alexander Gardner.
Monday, Dec. 17, 2007
Tony Blair to receive SMU’s Tower Center Medal of Freedom
Formal ceremony to be held on March 5, 2008, so rent your formal wear well in advance.
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
U.S. Air Force Cyber Commander to speak at SMU
"Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der 100101101..."
With a name like "driving mug," he's got to be good (at drinking while driving, for instance).
Monday, Dec. 3, 2007
SMU football’s Morstead and Sledge named to all-academic team
Four other schools match the Mustangs' output of two athletes named to Conference USA All-Academic team.
Monday, Dec. 3, 2007
SMU’s Meadows Theatre stages Balm in Gilead
It's the first full-length work by American playwright Lanford Wilson, and it's intended for mature audiences.
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007
Texas A&M professor says data makes Star of Bethlehem a reality
Larson even snagged the web address www.bethlehemstar.net, which has more info.
Monday, Nov. 26, 2007
The Guildhall at SMU not banned in Boston
In fact, they've been welcomed in Beantown, adding their own cache of expertise to an exhibit on the history of video games.
What does the Federal Reserve Bank have to do with video gaming? Not much, I hope...
Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007
Kitchen Dog and SMU set to open Our Lady of 121st Street this week
Co-production of this off-Broadway hit begins its run on November 16, and don't miss out on pay-what-you-can performances.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007
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