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Tune In: KXT-FM interviews Stewart Copeland
UPDATE for Friday, April 13, 2012: Due to the level of interest in today’s Stewart Copeland public lecture, the event has been moved from O’Donnell Recital Hall to Caruth Auditorium. The start time is 1 p.m. The event is free; … Continue reading
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Tagged free events, lecture programs, Meadows School of the Arts, Stewart Copeland, visitors
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Are you smarter than a supercomputer? SMU discusses ‘IBM at 100’
IBM master inventor Romilea Flores will simulate the now-famous appearance of Watson the computer on the television game show Jeopardy! when she speaks at SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering Friday, March 30, 2012. The event, which will pit SMU students against … Continue reading
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Tagged alumni news, free events, IBM, IBM at 100, Jeopardy, lecture programs, Lyle School of Engineering, Marty Salfen, Romilea Flores, video, Watson the computer
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Chaplain Rankin to deliver 2012 Willson Lecture March 28
Rev. Dr. Stephen Rankin, SMU chaplain, will speak on “Imagining a 21st-Century University” as the next event in the 2012 Willson Lecture Series Wednesday, March 28. The noon lecture in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum is preceded by a reception … Continue reading
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Tagged chaplain, Chaplain's Office, free events, lecture programs, Stephen Rankin, Willson Lecture Series
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Marlee Matlin to give keynote at 2012 SMU Women’s Symposium
Award-winning actress, author and activist Marlee Matlin will give the Emmie V. Baine Lecture at SMU’s 47th annual Women’s Symposium Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The event is the longest continuously running program of its kind in the country. The 2012 theme is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Williams, awards and honors, Cheryl Mayo, community involvement, Courtney Underwood, Gail Reese Ward Excellence in Mentoring Award, Jill Johnson, Judge Carolyn Wright, Justice Carolyn Wright, Karen Click, lecture programs, Marlee Matlin, Profiles in Leadership Award, Rabbi Nancy Kasten, SMU Women's Symposium, symposia, visitors, Women's Symposium
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Poet Nikki Giovanni opens Black History Month 2012 at SMU
World-renowned poet, author, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni will visit SMU Feb. 3 to help kick off the University’s 2012 Black History Month celebration. Her lecture is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater. Dubbed “the Princess … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History Month, free events, lecture programs, National African American History Month, Nikki Giovanni, visitors
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Luís Urrea kicks off SMU’s 2012 “Migration Matters” series Jan. 26
Luís Alberto Urrea – author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Queen of America and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Devil’s Highway – returns to the Hilltop Jan. 26, 2012, to speak in a new SMU discussion series. “Migration Matters: An Interdisciplinary Program on Immigration at … Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman College, Denise Gee, English, free events, Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue, lecture programs, Luis Alberto Urrea, Migration Matters, visitors
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Moneyball author Michael Lewis to give 2012 Tate Lecture Jan. 24
Financial journalist and best-selling author Michael Lewis – whose books became the Oscar-nominated films Moneyball and The Blind Side – visits the Hilltop Tuesday, Jan. 24, to deliver the Omni Hotels Lecture in SMU’s 2011-12 Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series. The event begins at 8 … Continue reading