David Croson, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, discussed the risks of setting up a 50-50 business partnership, and how to avoid them, with the Dallas Business Journal May 12, 2008.

Tom Mayo, Law, director of SMU's Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, wrote an op-ed entitled "Partisanship a high-risk, low-payoff strategy for scientists" published in The Dallas Morning News May 11, 2008.

Matt Wilson, Political Science, discussed the "gratuitous" suggestion of a holy endorsement in a Weatherford, Texas mayoral campaign with Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy in a piece that appeared May 6, 2008.

Volkan Otugen, Mechanical Engineering Chair, talked about the effect of wind on gas mileage with NBC Channel 5 News May 1, 2008.