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

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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Dedman College Faculty and Staff Community Mixer

Date: April 13, 2023 Time: 4-7 p.m. Location: Lumen Hotel (6101 Hillcrest Ave.) All Dedman College faculty and staff welcome. RSVP by 6pm on Monday, April 10.

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History PhD candidate presents work for Beinecke Library Research Fellowship

Check out History PhD candidate Ashton Reynold’s work during his Beinecke Library Research Fellowship. Six visiting scholars, recipients of Beinecke Library Research Fellowships, recently gave riveting presentations about their research in the Beinecke Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Collection. The six scholars are among fifty fellows that the library has welcomed back this year after a […]

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SMU Spring Break is March 13-17

Happy Spring Break. Rest, relax, and enjoy your time away. See you next week.

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Key events in American history over the past decade

FOX 4 – The dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center provided a striking image of five living U.S. presidents shoulder to shoulder for the event now ten years past. It was also the start of SMU’s Center for Presidential History. Good Day talks to the center’s director, Dr. Jeff Engel, about what a […]

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SMU Giving Day is March 7

Let’s help shape a brighter future for Dedman College students! Visit the Dedman College Giving Day Page: https://givingday.smu.edu/pages/dedman-college/?appeal_id=63fe445f7b2a06205282d747 The featured Dedman College funds are listed below: Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Anthropology Student Seminar Room Center for Presidential History Dean’s Research Council Dedman College Scholars Dedman College Research and Advanced Studies Department of Political Science Department of World […]

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SMU History alum Roberto Andrade writes for ESPN

ESPN– The Cowboys conflict: The cost of rooting for America’s Team play. By SMU alumnus Roberto Jose Andrade Franco HOURS BEFORE THE Dallas Cowboys host the Chicago Bears on a late October day, you can feel the hope. The sun shines on North Texas, after days of cold and rainy skies. The Cowboys have won […]

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SMU alumnus published in the US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal

Congratulations to History alum Joel Zapata as he was recently published in the US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal. His article, “Foro: The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Project,” can be found in Volume 6, 2022.

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Happy Holidays

SMU will be closed for the holiday from December 23 to January 2. Enjoy your break and see you in the new year.

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Without Accords, Goals to Curb Global Warming are Toothless and

DC Journal – Opinion Piece by Jo Guldi, a professor of history and a faculty member of the Data Science Institute at Southern Methodist University. Guldi is the author of “The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights.” A month ago, COP 27 (the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference) had its last session.  What […]