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Wes K. Waggoner, whose university admissions experience spans 20 years, has been named SMU’s new dean of undergraduate admission and executive director of enrollment services. Chosen after a national search, Waggoner reports to Stephanie Dupaul, associate vice president for enrollment … Continue reading →

The Lyle School of Engineering is partnering with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to improve water quality in African and Asian refugee camps housing tens of thousands of people. Supported by a $270,000 grant from UNHCR and additional … Continue reading →

SMU’s DeGolyer Library and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® have formed a partnership to preserve and chronicle the history of the international organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer. DeGolyer’s Archives of Women of the Southwest now houses correspondence, advertisements … Continue reading →

Total: 1,382 Demographics: 51% female, 49% male; 55% from outside Texas; 26.6% diversity Top states: Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia Average SAT: 1268, up from 1243 last year Average ACT: 28.4, up from 27.6 last year Average GPA: 3.44, … Continue reading →

An exhibition, “Four Centuries of Religious Books for Children,” will be featured January 20-May 12, 2012, in The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries at Bridwell Library. The exhibition explores religious books specifically written for children that were printed in Europe and … Continue reading →

ENVISO (formerly the Irving Symphony) and SMU’s Division of Music have launched a partnership in which a music composition student will serve each year as a composer-in-residence with the area’s only boutique professional symphony orchestra. The initiative is named the William H. … Continue reading →

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has raised SMU’s classification among institutions of higher education, reflecting dramatic growth in the University’s research activity since it was last measured in 2005. SMU is now categorized with 96 other institutions … Continue reading →

During Engineering & Humanity Week in April, Lyle School of Engineering students built and lived in shelters designed to house the poor or those displaced by war and natural disasters. The Hunter & Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity … Continue reading →