Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: Nov. 21, 2019 From a journalism teacher donating her kidney to a total stranger to a middle school teacher traveling to Africa to study human fossils, people shared their stories in front of a live audience about how science has affected their lives. The Story Collider science and storytelling event […]
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Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: Sept. 9, 2019 SMU alumna Myria Perez was selected as one of 125 women innovators across the country to be AAAS IF/THEN ambassadors. Their mission? To share their stories and serve as high-profile role models for girls. The percentages don’t lie, and for women, the percentages aren’t good. Only 37 […]
Congrats to Dr. Sue Smrekar who received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the SMU Department of Earth Sciences in 1990. She represented NASA last night at the Emmy’s where they won ‘Outstanding Original Interactive Program’ coverage of the NASA In Sight mission to study Mars. READ MORE
Master of Scale Originally Poster: July 29, 2019 About this episode: Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd knows: The smallest feature can make or break your product. This is what Wolfe Herd tapped into when she founded a dating app that required a whole new way of communication. She has become a master of understanding what […]
Huffington Post Originally Posted April 25, 2018 SMU Department of English alumna Kari Nixon pens a personal story for Huffington Post. I never thought I’d become a mother. The idea of handling someone else’s bodily fluids as, like, a day job, was abhorrent to me. And yet, at 29, I found myself walking across a […]
WSJ Originally Posted: November 16, 2018 How Much Swiping is Too Much? WSJ’s Joanna Stern “bumps into” Bumble’s CEO in the WSJ elevator and finds out what profile images work best, when to swipe right and how be a successful woman in tech. Photo: Andria Chamberlin for the Wall Street Journal. WATCH
SMU Magazine Originally Posted: October 2018 BY MEREDITH MCBEE ’19 Whitney Wolfe Herd ’11 is inside her second-floor office at the Bumble headquarters in Austin, Texas, pacing back and forth. One hand clutches her phone, while her free hand slices the air. She buzzes around the room, navigating her way through the plush pink chairs […]
Fortune Originally Posted: July 11, 2018 Whitney Wolfe Herd ’11 is a Dedman College alumna and Executive Board member. Some users of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd’s dating app, are lucky enough to swipe right and find love, a new friend or a job opportunity. Wolfe Herd, though, may be the luckiest of all: The app, which Forbes values at […]
Hays Free Press Originally Posted: June 27, 2018 Lindsey McCurdy graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in advertising and a minor in psychology. A year after graduating from Southern Methodist University (SMU) with a degree in advertising and a minor in psychology, Hays High alum and golfer Lindsey McCurdy is grinding away in […]
Time Magazine Originally Posted: April 2018 Whitney Wolfe Herd is unashamed to admit that being labeled a feminist never used to appeal to her. But after the tumultuous end to her tenure at Tinder—the dating-app company she co-founded, and then sued for sexual harassment—the term seemed less like a slur and more like an admission […]