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Dedman College alumnus and Jaguars Tackle, Kelvin Beachum is featured in a new NFL video airing for Hispanic Heritage Month

NFL Originally Posted: September 16, 2016 Dedman College alumnus and Jaguars Tackle, Kelvin Beachum is featured in a new NFL video airing for Hispanic Heritage Month. Kelvin is doing some excellent work on and off the field. WATCH http://www.nfl.com/videos/hispanic-heritage-month/0ap3000000702735/Hispanic-Heritage-Month-Kelvin-Beachum

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SMU-trained physicist who bolstered Big Bang theory dies at 84

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: August 31, 2016 James Cronin, a Southern Methodist University graduate who shared a Nobel Prize for explaining why the universe survived the Big Bang, died last Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 84. His death was confirmed by the University of Chicago, where he was a professor emeritus. No cause was given. […]

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SMU alumnus Tim Seibles named Virginia’s poet laureate

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Originally Posted: August 23, 2016 Tim Seibles, professor of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, was named poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governor Terry McAuliffe. Professor Seibles teaches in the master of fine arts in creative writing program at Old Dominion. Professor Seibles joined […]

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James Cronin, Nobel laureate who overturned long-accepted beliefs about the fundamental symmetry of laws of physics , dies at 84

Washington Post Originally Posted: August 28, 2016 James W. Cronin, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering a startling breakdown in what was assumed to be the immutable symmetry of physical law, thereby helping to explain the behavior and evolution of the universe as a whole, died Aug. 25 in St. Paul, Minn. […]

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Nobel laureate and SMU alumnus James Cronin dies

Physics World Originally Posted: August 27, 2016 American nuclear-physicist James Cronin, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics with Val Fitch, died on 25 August, at the age of 84. Cronin and Fitch – who died in February last year – were awarded the prize for their 1964 discovery that decaying subatomic particles called […]

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Dedman College alumnus and photographer Stuart Palley shares his tips on how to create beautiful images once darkness falls.

Time Originally Posted: August 10, 2016 SMU alumnus and photographer Stuart Palley shares his tips on how to create beautiful images once darkness falls. Palley graduated in 2011 with a double major in History and Finance and minors in Human Rights and Photography. Read more ~In our latest How to Photograph series, TIME asked award-winning photographer Stuart […]

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SMU Alumna: Hope Hicks Is Everything Her Boss Donald Trump Is Not

Town and Country Originally Posted: August 8, 2016 She’s a spokeswoman who rarely speaks. A political novice helping run one of the most rambunctious, unpredictable presidential campaigns in history. A former model who is almost never 
in front of a camera. In any other election year a 27­-year­-old who hadn’t so much as volunteered on […]

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Acker The American Nominee For NCAA Woman Of The Year

SMU Athletics Originally Posted: July 27, 2016 Avery Acker graduated in December with a degree in accounting and minors in chemistry and biological sciences. She will begin medical school this month. Congratulations! INDIANAPOLIS (SMU/NCAA) – SMU setter Avery Acker has been named the American Athletic Conference nominee for the Woman of the Year award, NCAA […]

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Meet the Scientist: Eveline Kuchmak, an SMU alumna and current Manager of Temporary Exhibitions at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science

The Rock Report Originally Posted: July 18, 2016 Meet: Eveline Kuchmak Another Southern Methodist University alumna (Pony Up!), Eveline graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Economic Sociology. Growing up she “lived for trips to art and science museums, space camp, Pony Club veterinary workshops, and the latest issue of National Geographic.” She was homeschooled […]

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SMU alumnus John Culberson, saving NASA is the new space rescue mission

Houston Chronicle Originally Posted: July 6, 2016 Adrift- Part 7 The new space rescue mission: Saving NASA The legendary Christopher Columbus Kraft, who lived up to his namesake by leading NASA to the moon, has grown old. Severe lines crease his face, and Kraft’s fingers have gnarled. Earlier this year, just before his 90th birthday, sciatica […]