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New Views Of The Hilltop

As part of its Second Century Celebration, SMU has published a 160-page book, SMU: Unbridled Vision, which features more than 200 new color photographs, combined with selected historic images, showing the beauty and vitality of the campus experience. The Second … Continue reading

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A Dickens Of An Exhibit

DeGolyer Library will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world’s most popular novelists with “Charles Dickens, 1811-2011: An Exhibition from the Collection of Stephen Weeks,” opening January 19, 2012. Weeks, a member of the SMU Libraries Executive Board, … Continue reading

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Weaving A Tale Of Conquest

This just in from Spain: Four monumental tapestries are making their way to SMU’s Meadows Museum to hang in an exhibit titled “The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries” February 5-May 13, 2012. The Gothic works of … Continue reading

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Peruna Legacy Continues

Peruna IX, shown sprinting with handlers Ryan Gage (left) and Chris Manthey, is the big stud on campus now. The miniature black stallion took the reins from Peruna VIII at halftime of the football game against Central Florida October 15 in … Continue reading

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Badges Of Honor

Michaux Nash Jr. ’56 ended a three-decade treasure hunt a few years ago by completing the only known collection of sheriffs’ badges from all 254 Texas counties. Nash, a fourth-generation Dallasite and third-generation banker, donated the collection to SMU last … Continue reading

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Just The Historical Facts, Please

It seems there are sharp eyes and memories among several of our alumni, who contacted SMU Magazine to gently inform us that the photo on the back cover of the Fall/Winter 2010 issue was not of SMU’s 1934 Homecoming queen. … Continue reading

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Check This Out

SMU libraries bear little resemblance to the first library that was located in a room in Dallas Hall. The University system now comprises seven libraries – DeGolyer Library, Fondren Library Center, Hamon Arts Library, Institute for the Study of Earth … Continue reading

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Up To The Challenge

Inertia, the 2D platform arcade game created by students from The Guildhall at SMU-in-Plano, is one of the big winners ($130,000 in cash and prizes) of the second annual Indie Game Challenge. The eight members of SMU’s Team Hermes are … Continue reading

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Prado On The Prairie

Meadows Museum and the Prado Museum in Madrid have entered into a three-year partnership, marking the first such international program for Spain’s national museum.
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Tender Memories

The Horton Foote Collection at DeGolyer Library includes more than 200 boxes of material documenting the 60-year career of the playwright, author and filmmaker. In the spring an exhibit and panel discussion at the the library will focus on Foote, who died in 2009 at age 92.
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