Dallas Morning News Gifts totaling more than $4 million will endow and provide operational support for the new Tower Scholars Program at Southern Methodist University. The program provides an immersion experience for undergraduates in public policymaking through SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. READ MORE
SMU Daily Campus SMU student Katie Schaible was recognized Tuesday by the American Cancer Society for raising more money for the organization than any high school or college student with a final count of more than $32,000. During last year’s Relay for Life (RFL), Schaible was one student whose efforts helped the event […]
Christian Science Monitor …In the run-up to the 2016 election, “it would be in the interest of the Republican majority in both houses, should one develop, and President Obama to position their party brands as able to do business,” says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. READ MORE
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KERA News Instead of a summer job at the mall, two North Texas high schoolers spent their time off with a telescope. And it was time well spent. For these astrophysicists-in-training, stargazing over the summer led to five unusual discoveries: new stars. In some respects, Dominik Fritz and Jason Barton are typical high-schoolers. Jason’s haircut […]
D Magazine Jessica Leija didn’t even know what a valedictorian was until her junior year at Thomas Jefferson High School. Junior year is when administrators first release a class ranking. Her classmates placed bets on who would own the top spot. Odds favored one of the Asian kids. Leija’s name hadn’t even entered the conversation. […]
Business Insider….. Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said Perry has a brief chance to reintroduce himself. If Perry goes to trial, voters will see a parade of Perry operatives discuss the deal-making surrounding the veto. “It will show how ugly it is to see the political sausage made,” […]
Event: Friday, September 5, Dedman Life Sciences Building RM 131, 5-6pm Fekri Hassan, Professor Emeritus, Petrie Professor of Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at the University College London from 1994 – 2008, will lecture on cultural dynamics and the origins of the Egyptian civilization. Dr. Hassan will discuss how cultivation of domesticated cereals (grains) […]
The Doctoral Lecture series features presentations by our graduate students who are finishing their dissertations this year. In these 30-minute presentations, the Ph.D. candidate will outline the scope of his or her dissertation project and demonstrate a focused reading of a text or texts that exemplifies the best work in the dissertation. After a presentation […]