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Students come to SMU for learning in and beyond the classroom – whether through leadership positions, volunteering or advancing the Mustang spirit.

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Students Lead Their Way

SMU students place a high value on campus experiences that prepare them for life’s challenges and responsibilities.

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The Volunteer Way

Each year, several thousand SMU students enrich their campus experience and serve the community through various University programs.

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Hegi Career Center

In today’s uncertain economic climate, more alumni and students are turning to SMU’s Hegi Family Career Development Center for guidance.

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The Taos Experience

At SMU-in-Taos, construction of new casitas, renovations to existing housing and technological improvements will make it possible to offer a fall semester for the first time.

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Campus Health Center RX

With the mission of helping students maintain good health, SMU Memorial Health Center dispenses effective doses of prevention, education and assistance.

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Northern Exposure

At SMU-in-Plano, approximately 800 students from the Dallas-Fort Worth area are enrolled in graduate studies and professional development programs in business, technology, engineering and education.

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Sustainable SMU

SMU’s earthy-friendly efforts include green building, recycling and a new Sustainability Committee.

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What Goes Down Will Come Up

SMU faculty members with expertise in the effects of the ups and downs of the economy say we’re in for a bumpy ride.

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A Healthy Economy Starts In The Classroom

G. Reid Lyon, Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and Leadership with the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, discusses the impact of education on the economy.

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Going Global

SMU Magazine looks at some of the University’s international connections – education abroad, faculty research and alumni who work overseas – to understand how SMU is going global.

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SMU-in-Britain: Students Worldwide Compete For Coveted Spots

More than 400 SMU students have spent a year at universities such as St. Andrews in Scotland, University College London and the University of Kent at Canterbury through SMU-in-Britain since the program began in the early 1970s.

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International Internships Show Students The Ropes On How The World Works

In the past year, about 10 percent of SMU’s undergraduate students took advantage of the University’s education abroad programs, overseas internships and global research projects.

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Examining The Business Dimensions Of A Flat World

Even if you aren’t working directly with a Chinese company, you will be impacted by what is happening in China,” says Linda Kao (’78), Cox School of Business’ assistant dean of global operations.

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Lost In Translation: Cultural Sensitivity Goes A Long Way In Advertising

Carrie La Ferle, associate professor of advertising, says that cultural sensitivity can be as important as brand identity in global markets.

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An American In Cyprus: Seeing Past The Postcard Façade

As the U.S. government’s human rights and trafficking-in- persons (TIP) officer, Amy Dahm often delved into the seamier side of life on the island nation of Cyprus.

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West Meets East: Finding Common Theological Ground

Robert Hunt (’82) felt the rumblings of change in China while serving as a professor at Trinity Theological College in Singapore from 1993-97.

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Teaching International Relations: It’s A Whole New World Order

Professor Seyom Brown’s specialty is U.S. foreign policy, which makes the world his laboratory.

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Digging The Etruscans: Student Unearth Treasures In Italy

Senior art history major Jayme Clemente was working in trench No. 35 in July at an archaeological dig 20 miles northeast of Florence, Italy, when something caught her eye.

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SMU Unbridled: The Second Century Campaign

The official kickoff of SMU Unbridled: The Second Century Campaign on September 12 started the clock on the campaign’s five-year public phase.

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Unbridled Opportunity: The Second Century Campaign Launch

“Today we stand as the bridge between the SMU of 100 years ago and the SMU of 100 years from now. Our second century awaits with new challenges and opportunities,” President R. Gerald Turner told the crowd of faculty, staff, students, alumni and donors at the campaign launch.

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Unbridled Aspirations

Campaign focuses on student quality, faculty and academic excellence, and the campus experience.

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Unbridled On The Road

The Second Century Campaign launches in Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York and Chicago. The Houston event is slated Jan. 28, 2009.

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Unbridled Leadership

The Second Century Campaign leadership.

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Shining Lights

As teachers, scholars and citizens of SMU, professors shape the learning community.

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The Poetry Man

Putting words to the inner life: Read six new poems by SMU English professor Jack Myers as well as his thoughts on poetry and poets.

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The Education Equation

From how students learn to why they may fail, the new Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at SMU seeks answers for education and human development.

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Objects Of Art

For SMU visual arts students, neatness doesn’t count, but creativity certainly does.

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Univer-City

University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson once referred to a college campus as an “academical village.” He was right in more ways than one – a university is a small city, requiring everything from stores and eating establishments to police services and trash collection. More than 1,380 full-time staff members keep SMU running 24/7 for its 10,829 students and 726 faculty members. That includes staff who raise the annual funds to pay for campus operations.

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Dollars for Scholars

To attract the best students to SMU, admission officers cite a campus experience that is challenging in and out of the classroom, the opportunity to interact closely with distinguished professors and other bright students, and the benefits of living and learning on a park-like campus in a vibrant city. They get all this – and the incentive of merit scholarships.

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SMUooth Moves

At 5 p.m. most weekdays, Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports hums at its peak of activity – with hundreds of bodies running, swimming, weightlifting, spinning, playing basketball and racquetball, rock climbing, puffing on treadmills and punching the bags. Students, but also many faculty and staff, begin pouring into the facility the minute it opens at 6 a.m. and keep the place hopping until it closes at midnight.

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Investing Wisely, Growing In Prominence

Benjamin Franklin once advised that a penny saved is a penny earned – but if he were alive today, he may have added that a penny wisely invested is an even better deal.

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Dance Fever

With each step and sauté, push and pull, students in the Division of Dance learn their craft while perfecting their art. Beyond the barre, dance students show off the forms they have fine-tuned in the studio with Main Stage productions in the fall and spring, as well as a graduate thesis performance by the division’s M.F.A. candidates in April. The concerts feature historic and contemporary works by such choreographers as Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Judith Jamison and Paul Taylor, among others.

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Good For Something

Quotes from great thinkers plaster a wall in the office of SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, including this one from Henry David Thoreau: “Aim above morality. Be not simply good – be good for something.”

That saying sums up the philosophy of Law Professor and Maguire Director Tom Mayo on teaching future leaders to put service to society first. It underlies the vision behind the Maguire Center since its founding in 1995: to guide students on the wise and moral use of the power they have gained through the acquisition of knowledge and to encourage ethical thinking and action.

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Fabulous At 50

From the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World to the railroads, industry and technology that changed the landscape of the new frontier, SMU’s DeGolyer Library contains the rare documents and artifacts that tell the stories of human discovery – and beckon scholars to keep exploring. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation that provided the original collection of materials. It began with one man’s yearning to collect, learn and share.

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Green with Embrey

The new J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building lets SMU walk the green walk. Professors and students agree: When it comes to state-of-the-art engineering facilities, the grass is now greenest in their own backyard. For those who've advocated a more environmentally responsible future, the Embrey Building has proven to be the logical vehicle for converting visions of sustainability into hands-on education and innovative design. As the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold-certified building on a university campus in the Southwest, Embrey has firmly placed SMU on the short list of schools with a demonstrated eco-conscience.

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