KERA Originally Posted: March 13, 2018 KERA story published Tuesday, March 13, 2018 on SMU Graduate History alumna Carla Mendiola. She is teaching high school students chicana/o history. A man dressed in gold and black blows a trumpet shell. A teenage boy beats on a drum. They’re part of a group that performs traditional Aztec dances. […]
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MilTech Originally Posted: December 15, 2017 Science is the practice of informed looking. It requires an early embrace of observation, curiosity, and questioning. So it was with Allison McComiskey, a physical scientist with the Earth System Research Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She grew up in New Orleans, the daughter of a physician […]
PR News Channel Originally Posted: December 18, 2017 The International Nurses Association is pleased to welcome Jacqueline Jones to their prestigious organization with her upcoming publication in the Worldwide Leaders In Healthcare. Jacqueline Jones is a Student Nurse at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she is currently training to become a Registered Nurse. […]
The Daily Texan Originally Posted: November 30, 2017 As a mother of three and a Southern Methodist University advertising and French alumna, Mary Beth Bennett isn’t the typical first-year medical student. However, as a member of Dell’s Class of 2021, Bennett is now part of an unconventional class where females are dominating the classroom. Dell’s […]
Elle Originally Posted: November 27, 2017 Whitney Wolfe is perched on a chaise longue in a suite at Austin’s South Congress Hotel, a sleek, boutique-y outfit that epitomizes the city’s hipster renaissance, straining to remember the slang used in China to refer to single women over 30. “A girl in China just told us about […]
Forbes Originally Posted: This story appears in the December 12, 2017 issue of Forbes. When Whitney Wolfe Herd started planning an October launch party for a new product at Bumble, America’s fastest-growing dating-app company, she was deliberate in her choice of venue: the Manhattan space that for 57 years hosted the Four Seasons restaurant, where regulars […]
CultureMap Originally Posted: October 2, 2017 Bumble is taking a swipe at LinkedIn, the world’s most popular social media platform for professional networking. Austin-based Bumble, which began as a female-centered dating app, is now empowering women to swipe right in order to nurture professional connections. On Monday, October 2, Bumble launched Bumble Bizz, which the […]
Originally Posted: September 22, 2017 “As an undergraduate at SMU, I knew many opportunities existed for me to conduct research… Dr. Smith-Morris immediately encouraged me in my ideas and refined my research.”-Katie Logsdon, #DedmanCollege ’17, whose manuscript on her undergraduate research in Amsterdam with the SMU Department of Anthropology‘s Dr. Smith-Morris was published in the October edition of Midwifery […]
FastCompany Originally Posted: August 28, 2017 Whitney Wolfe is an SMU Dedman College alumna. She is also the CEO of Bumble. The feminist dating app is adding more than 50,000 new users per day. With the launch of a new networking vertical, founder Whitney Wolfe is expanding her ambitions—for Bumble and for women. Whitney Wolfe wants […]
SMU Avery Acker ’16 was the Academic All-American of the Year for all of Division I volleyball. She chose SMU for its academic rigor, so she could pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. “I grew up in a very small town, and I just loved it. We hunted, we fished and we played every […]