NBC ProFootball Talk Originally Posted: June 1, 2018 SMU alumnus Kelvin Beachum graduated with undergraduate degrees in economics and sports management. Jets offensive tackle Kelvin Beachum had a wise attitude toward being a college football player: You’re getting your education paid for, so you might as well make the most of it. Beachum said on NFL […]
Columbus Dispatch Originally Posted: June 2, 2018 Bryson DeChambeau majored in physics at Southern Methodist University. He went on to win the Memorial with a birdie on the second playoff hole Sunday, June 3. Bryson DeChambeau is no Einstein, but he would like to meet the man. And who knows, given the uncertainties of time-space […]
Dallas Business Journal Originally Posted: June 1, 2018 The George W. Bush Institute and Southern Methodist University on Friday joined forces to launch an initiative aimed at advancing policies that promote domestic economic growth and strengthen U.S. competitiveness in the global economy. The Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative will combine the existing Economic Growth Initiative of the […]
SMU Magazine Originally Posted: May 8, 2018 The George W. Bush Institute and SMU are joining forces to launch the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative on June 1. This effort will combine the existing Economic Growth Initiative of the Bush Institute with the public policy-relevant work of the SMU Department of Economics. The objective is […]
TechCrunch Originally Posted: May 31, 2018 Congratulations to Dedman College alumnus and executive board member, Matt Alexander. According to reports, the Co-Founder and CEO of Neighborhood Goods will open his first location — a 13,000-square-foot store in Plano, Texas — this fall. Neighborhood Goods, a startup rethinking the traditional department store experience, is announcing that it […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 28, 2017 It’s time to ask: What’s so great about democracy? I don’t mean we should doubt that democracy is the best approach to government. I think we should remind ourselves why it is. Spoiler alert: It’s not because it results in the best leaders. Democracy is valuable even […]
SMU News Originally Posted: May 30, 2018 Invisible to the naked eye, the variable star ROTSE1 J000831.43+223154.8 flickers in the northern sky. It hides within an ancient star map formed, it was said, when the king of the gods transformed his most heroic steed into a constellation. For Jasmine Liu ’18 – an SMU physics […]
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Originally Posted: May 30, 2018 The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition Nov. 9 revealing how millions of years ago, large-scale natural forces created the conditions for real-life sea monsters to thrive in the South Atlantic Ocean basin shortly after it formed. “Sea […]
Fortune Magazine Originally Posted: May 25, 2018 Excerpt from an article titled Lone Star Rising in the May 2018 issue of Fortune Magazine: Zhong Lu, a geophysics professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, is part of a scientific team that has used satellite imagery to study what it regards as alarming land subsidence throughout […]