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Event: Sept. 11, Literature and Politics: A Conversation with B39 Writers

Date: Sept. 11, 2018 Location: EY Gallery Time:5:30-7:30 p.m. Contact: Lourdes Molina Five writers from Bogotá39, a group of the top Latin American writers under the age of 40, will discuss their work and its relationship with politics. Special guests: literary translator Christina MacSweeney and Dallas’s own Will Evans from Deep Vellum Publishing. This event is […]

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Kendell Miller-Roberts, EHRP Post-Baccalaureate Fellow 2018-19

Dedman College News Originally Posted: September 5, 2018 By: Ryan Garrett Kendell graduated from SMU with a B.A. in Human Rights, a B.F.A. in Dance Performance, and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies in May 2018. This fall, she will be returning to campus to work as a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow with SMU’s Embrey Human […]

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Sept. 5: Health and Society Lecture

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SMU is closed Monday, Sept. 3

We will be back tomorrow. Enjoy your Labor Day!  

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How Women’s Suffrage Improved Education for a Whole Generation of Children

The Atlantic Originally Published: August 28, 2018 The Atlantic article references a recent study by three economists—Dartmouth College’s Na’ama Shenhav, Bucknell University’s Esra Kose, and Southern Methodist University’s Elira Kuka that suggests women’s suffrage improved education and contributed to kids staying in school longer. When the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment nearly a century ago, the […]

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Save the Date: Sept. 25: History: The Past and Your Future

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SMU Physicist Explains Significance of Latest Cern Discovery Related to the Higgs Boson

SMU Research Originally Posted: August 28, 2018 Stephen Sekula says observation of the Higgs particle transforming into bottom quarks confirms the 20th-century recipe for mass Scientists conducting physics experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming, as it decays, into subatomic particles called bottom quarks, an observation that […]

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A new survey reveals that not only do business executives value college, they want students with skills associated with the liberal arts.

Inside Higher Ed Originally Posted: August 28, 2018 Public May Not Trust Higher Ed, but Employers Do  A new survey reveals that not only do business executives value college, they want students with skills associated with the liberal arts. Though public support for higher education seems to be waning, this skepticism doesn’t appear to extend to […]

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Save the Date: The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World of the 1950s

Event Date: September 20 Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Location: Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium)   Learn More: http://blog.smu.edu/cph/event/age-of-eisenhower-america-and-the-world-of-the-1950s/ Description: This event will feature Will Hitchcock from the University of Virginia as he discusses his latest book, Age of Eisenhower: America and the World of the 1950s.

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Family Weekend 2018

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 10-11 am- SMU Abroad Info Session (Hughes-Trigg Theater) 11 am-12 pm- Fraternity & Sorority Life Discussion (Harold Simmons 101) 11:30 am-12:30 pm- Hegi Family Career Development Center Open House (Hegi Family Career Center, Hughes-Trigg) 12:00-1:30 pm- Family Weekend Luncheon (Hughes-Trigg Ballroom) 2-3 pm- Dedman College Open House (Dallas Hall Rotunda) 2-3 pm- Meadows […]