The Department of Sociology congratulates Marlon Carbajal, Erica Renstrom, Aubrey Richardson, and Kristen Yule for their academic accomplishments over the last four years. All four were inducted into Phi Betta Kappa honor society on March 1, 2015.
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Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: March 13, 2015 When Peter Balakian was a small boy, his grandmother filled him with stories seeped in magical realism, with mysterious yet baffling lines. “A long time ago there was and there wasn’t,” she’d say. Perhaps his tender grandmother was just nurturing a fellow poet and soon-to-be historian of […]
DALLAS (SMU) – Maria Richards, SMU Geothermal Laboratory Coordinator in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, has been named president-elect of the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC). She will become the 26th president of the global energy organization beginning in 2017. Richards has been at the forefront of SMU’s renowned geothermal energy research for more […]
Public Radio of Armenia Originally Posted: March 10, 2015 From March 6 to March 7, a conference, entitled “Legacy of the Armenian Genocide 100 years later” was held at the Institute for Global Justice in The Hague. The conference was organized by the National Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) of the Netherlands, […]
Dallas Morning News, The Scoop Blog DIANNE SOLÍS Published: March 11, 2015 3:50 pm A Southern Methodist University scholarship will offered in the name of Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old boy killed in July 1973 by a Dallas police officer in a horrific episode in the city’s history. The young boy’s death caused fury and protests […]
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KERA Originally Published: March 7, 2015 Today, March 7, marks the 50th anniversary of a bloody milestone in the Civil Rights Movement – when marchers in Selma, Alabama were attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On Friday, a busload from SMU began retracing the route a group of students, faculty and staff took […]
Park Cities People Originally Posted: March 6, 2015 One of my all-time favorite professors, Willard Spiegelman, will receive the sixth annual SMU Literati Award. That’s an award specifically for people who have “used the written word to advance the ideals of creativity, conviction, innovation, and scholarship.” Past recipients include Laura Bush in 2011 and SMU’s […]
CBS DFW Originally Published: March 6, 2015 DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – They are marching back in history to mark a major milestone. Students from Southern Methodist University loaded into buses Friday and set off — bound for Selma, Alabama. They know it will be an emotional trip and it’s one they’ve planned for more than a […]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYcywKYckjw[/youtube] Originally Published: Feb 5, 2015 At SMU, students and faculty work hand-in-hand to shape answers to real-world challenges. You can learn more about the programs shown in this video by using the following links: – SMU’s Embry Human Rights Program: http://smu.edu/humanrights