Congratulations to all of the graduates. We are so proud of you! Check out the events schedule by visiting: smu.edu/commencement Can’t make it to the festivities? Join the live webcast of SMU’s Baccalaureate and All-University May Commencement Saturday, May 13 at 8:30 a.m. CDT. https://www.smu.edu/live
SMU NEWS – When the George W. Bush Presidential Center opened to the public on the SMU campus on May 1, 2013, it launched a strong but independent partnership with the University that continues to provide measurable benefits to the North Texas community. From bringing world leaders to Dallas, to boosting the regional economy through jobs and tourism, […]
Newswise — An estimated 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making them 16 times more likely to die suddenly compared to the general population. SMU biology researcher Edward Glasscock has received a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study that he hopes will lead to the identification of biomarkers […]
Dedman College News – The SMU Maguire Ethics Center awards Public Service Fellowships to undergraduate and graduate students interested in volunteer work or research in ethics during the summer months. Recipients are required to complete 200 hours of public service during the summer term. For 25 years The Maguire Ethics Center has awarded summer fellowships […]
Dedman College News – Heather DeShon, Department Chair and Professor in Dedman College’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, was elected SSA president and has already assumed duties as president-elect. According to the website, SSA is “committed to advancing seismology and sharing research with the public to help build an earthquake-aware world.” Congratulations!
SMU News – Evidence of an early savannah grass growing millions of years earlier than previously known may fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. A pair of studies funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science document the earliest evidence for locally abundant open-habitat grasses in eastern Africa and how those environments […]
SMU Magazine – Students in poet Samyak Shertok’s creative writing class, The Art of Listening, started the semester standing outside, absorbing the sounds of the sky. “Poetry is finding music in the everyday sounds,” says Shertok, one of SMU’s first two recipients of the Hughes Fellowship in Creative Writing. The fellowship was created with resources […]
Congratulations to Alida Liberman, SMU Associate Professor of Philosophy! The Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching, sponsored by the American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA), recognizes a philosophy teacher who has had a profound impact on the student learning of philosophy in undergraduate and/or […]
SMU News – Brian Tyler, CEO of McKesson Corporation, a Top 10 Fortune 500 healthcare services company, will be the featured speaker at SMU’s May Commencement Convocation on Saturday, May 13. The ceremony, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. at Moody Coliseum, will be streamed live at https://www.smu.edu/live. Since joining McKesson more than 25 years ago, Tyler has […]
Come to the Dedman College Student Advisory Tabling Event on April 12 from 5-7pm. Share your thoughts with the DCSAB. Date: April 12 Time: 5-7pm Location: Fondren, next to Starbucks