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2025 Honorary Degree Symposium

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Post date May 7, 2025

Please join the SMU Community as we cordially invite you to the Honorary Degree Symposium featuring a conversation with 2025 Honorary Degree recipient Dr. Ruth Simmons Distinguished education leader Dr. Ruth Simmons will join us for a conversation moderated by local writer Charlise Lyles to discuss Dr. Simmons’s critically acclaimed memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey […]

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Rick Halperin, Director of the SMU Dallas Human Rights Program, writes op-ed for Dallas Morning News

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date July 24, 2023

Dallas Morning News Rick Halperin, Director of the SMU Dallas Human Rights Program, for a commentary about the murder of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez 50 years ago and the impact on the Dallas community. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading A half-century later the Santos Rodriguez murder remains the open wound of Dallas: […]

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McKesson Corporation CEO Brian Tyler to keynote May 13 SMU Commencement Convocation

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date April 13, 2023

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 […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date November 22, 2022

Wishing all of our SMU family and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. SMU will be closed November 24-25.

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Event, Nov. 7: Nate and Ann Levine Endowed Lecture in Jewish Studies

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date October 24, 2022

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Disability: From Undergrad to the Workplace

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date October 18, 2022

RSVP: https://smu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nmpRsdBvT1eljxTCLrZP5w

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Save the Date: Nov. 10, Dedman College Faculty and Staff Mixer

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date October 10, 2022

Dedman College Faculty and Staff Mixer is November 10. RSVP at smu.edu/dedmanmixer by November 3.

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Welcome Back Mustangs!

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date August 16, 2022

SMU News: SMU has a diverse set of people, opportunities and experiences to help you through the school year. Explore what the Hilltop has to offer.

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SMU graduates Abena Marfo ’22 and Briana Morales ’21 shared with the Dallas Morning News their challenges and successes as first-generation students at SMU

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date June 28, 2022

Dallas Morning News What first-generation North Texas students face: Grads share their stories Abena Marfo’s mother was always adamant about education. After moving to Texas from Ghana, her mom wasn’t able to pursue her own college degree as she juggled work in preschools with raising two girls by herself. She encouraged her daughters to earn […]

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Congratulations to Averie Bishop

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date June 26, 2022

SMU Alum Averie Bishop ’19, ’22 has become the first Asian American woman to win the title of Miss Texas.