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SMU Students Become ‘Great Debaters’

The SMU debate program makes a strong showing after a four-year hiatus.

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Bush Makes Surprise Visit To Campus

Former President George W. Bush delights students with a surprise visit.

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Junior Wins Truman Scholarship

Junior Warren Seay has been selected as a 2009 Truman Scholar, a prestigious national award that recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government or public service.

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Fulbright Scholars Work In Vietnam, Peru

Three members of the SMU community are continuing their work overseas after receiving grants from the U.S. Department of State’s prestigious Fulbright Program.

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New Angles On Mexican Artist

The Meadows Museum’Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917exhibit provides a new perspective on the great Mexican painter's artistic production during the formative years he spent in literary and art circles in Paris during World War I.

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Seen & Heard

Leading minds share their unique perspectives with the SMU community.

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Engineering On Demand: A New Kind Of Lab

SMU engineering students will be the first in the world to study and create through the one-of-a-kind SMU/Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® Program at the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering.

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Engineering School Honors Lyle, Launches Initiatives

SMU’s 83-year-old School of Engineering has been named in honor of Bobby B. Lyle (’67), a Dallas entrepreneur and industry leader who was instrumental in crafting a strategic plan for the school that Dean Geoffrey Orsak calls “a new national template for engineering in the 21st century.”

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Honoring The ‘Doctors’ O’Donnell

Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. have become the first couple in SMU history to receive honorary degrees together. They received Doctor of Humane Letters degrees at the May 2008 Commencement ceremony.

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New Members Join Board of Trustees

Ten new members have been elected to serve four-year terms on the SMU Board of Trustees. In addition, 28 trustees were re-elected to four-year terms, and two new ex officio board members were named to one-year terms.

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SMU Opens Counseling Centers In Dallas, Plano

The Center for Family Counseling, part of SMU’s Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, opened in October at its facility in Plano. In addition, SMU also recently opened a counseling center in the Oak Lawn area, in partnership with the Resource Center of Dallas.

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Seen & Heard

SMU hosts entertainers, authors and politicians of note.

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Series Highlights Impact Of Charles Darwin

Throughout 2009, SMU schools and departments will celebrate the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of the Species and the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin through a series of lectures, exhibits and presentations.

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SMU Takes Action On Substance Abuse Prevention

More than a dozen recommendations made by the SMU Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention have been implemented since April.

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SMU Chosen As Site Of Bush Presidential Library

With SMU’s selection as the site of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Institute, Texas will become the only state in the nation to house three presidential libraries

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Education Abroad Adds Programs In Asia, Africa

SMU’s Education Abroad Office is expanding its global reach with seven new programs.

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SMU Appoints New Dedman College Dean

Cordelia Chávez Candeleria, SMU’s new dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, is an academic administrator with experience in strategic affairs as well as an accomplished scholar-teacher.

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Seen & Heard

Leading figures in their fields share their perspectives on politics, human rights and journalism at on-campus events.

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Task Force Takes Aim at Alcohol And Drug Abuse

SMU President R. Gerald Turner has accepted 36 of 38 recommendations made by the Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention to review programs, regulations and the campus culture related to substance abuse issues.

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Jerry Bywaters

The late Jerry Bywaters ('26), a member of the SMU arts faculty for 35 years, transformed Texas art and achieved national recognition for the state's artists. The former director of the Dallas Museum of Art also led the Dallas Nine, a group of artists who developed the style known as Lone Star Regionalism.

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Truth In Translation

"Truth in Translation," based on the experiences of translators for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission created after the dissolution of apartheid in South Africa, made its U.S. premiere at SMU's Bob Hope Theatre in September. A professional South African acting troupe performed the play, featuring original music by South African composer Hugh Masekela. The Embrey Family Foundation of Dallas funded the event.

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Remembering Jim Caswell's Legacy

Not many individuals can claim to have influenced the lives of almost 50,000 college students for nearly five decades. But that estimation applies to the late Jim Caswell, who served since 1964 in student affairs positions at SMU, most recently as vice president for student affairs. After retiring in May 2007, he planned to enjoy a second career as a church pastor, but lost his battle to cancer October 22.

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East Side Story: There's A Place For Us ... Across Central Expressway

SMU is rising. Not only in SAT scores and national rankings, but literally moving up, with programs in a high-rise building across Central Expressway. The 15-story building at the corner of Yale Boulevard and Central now houses SMU’s offices for human resources, internal auditing, taxes, accounting, procurement, payroll, asset management and the Department of Psychology’s Family Research Center. Other research offices are moving east as SMU’s campus stretches across Central for the first time in its almost 100-year history.

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Students Examine Cultural Barriers To Cancer Prevention

For women in developing countries, how can cultural barriers be overcome to ensure they get mammograms, which could save their lives?

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The Bush Library Project: Potential For Research, Focus Of Dialogue

One of the benefits of locating a presidential library at a university is that historic materials for research and dialogue would seem to be at home in an academic setting. As presidential historian Michael Beschloss remarked on a PBS news show recently, presidential libraries associated with universities possess “a certain vitality.”

That is already proving to be true at SMU. On December 21 the George W. Bush Library Site Selection Committee announced that it was focusing on SMU as the potential site for the Bush Library, Museum and Institute. “I’m not here to tell you we have been finally selected,” said SMU President R. Gerald Turner at a news conference that day, “but this is as good of an announcement as we could have at this time.”

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Seen and Heard

“Media bias is a huge thing. I think about it every day and in everything I do. The best way to get around it is to have people of different backgrounds, ethnicities and opinions in a room coming up with what you’re going to cover. I’m a big believer in not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. Facts are facts.”
Anderson Cooper, CNN News anchor, Turner Construction Student Forum, Nov. 14, 2006

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Seeing Green

Middle school students display their work incorporating green designs for cities of the future at Visioneering 2007 at SMU's Moody Coliseum in March. More than 600 Dallas-area middle school students, educators, practicing engineers and innovators participated in the event to focus on how engineering can help preserve natural resources.

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Lone Star Legacy: 40 Years of Art

Meadows Museum will feature “Lone Star Legacy: 40 Years of Art” July 15-October 14, 2007, from the University Art Collection (UAC). “Lone Star Legacy” focuses on the works of contemporary Texas artists, including those affiliated with SMU, such as art professor Barnaby Fitzgerald, alumnus John Alexander (’70) and sculptor and former professor James Surls.

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Geology Scholar To Lead Research And Graduate Studies

James E. Quick, a noted scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey and a frequently published geology scholar, has been named associate vice president for research and dean of graduate studies at SMU. He joins the University this summer.

During his 25-year tenure with USGS, Quick has served as a chief scientist, project chief and staff geologist. He currently is program coordinator of the Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) at the USGS. The VHP researches volcanic processes and monitors all active volcanoes in the United States to provide early warning of eruptions.

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USC Administrator Named Vice President For Student Affairs

Lori S. White, who has held student affairs positions at the University of Southern California, Stanford University and Georgetown University, has been named vice president for student affairs at SMU, effective June 1. She currently serves as associate vice president for student affairs at USC. White succeeds James E. Caswell (’63, ’66, ’70), who is retiring after 40 years of service to the University.

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Preparing For Emergencies

Although there is only so much an institution can do to protect against the type of tragedy that recently occurred at Virginia Tech, in view of this situation SMU has reminded the campus community about its emergency procedures. The University constantly monitors and updates its procedures as it continues to learn from others in the higher education community and from the security and law enforcement professions.

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SMU Is Hot On Environmental Awareness

The “Stop Global Warming College Tour” kicked off at SMU April 9 with a visit by ABC’s Sam Champion (front left) reporting for “Good Morning America,” along with Laurie David (center), producer of “An Inconvenient Truth,” and singer Sheryl Crow (in scarf).

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Distinguished UC-Berkeley Dean Leads Academic Affairs At SMU

Paul W. Ludden, dean of the College of Natural Resources at the University of California-Berkeley and scholar in environmental biochemistry, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at SMU. He will join SMU in time for the fall 2007 semester.

As provost, the University’s chief academic officer, Ludden will oversee all aspects of academic life, ranging from admissions and faculty development to supervision of SMU’s seven schools, library system and international programs.

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