TechCrunch Originally Posted: May 31, 2018 Congratulations to Dedman College alumnus and executive board member, Matt Alexander. According to reports, the Co-Founder and CEO of Neighborhood Goods will open his first location — a 13,000-square-foot store in Plano, Texas — this fall. Neighborhood Goods, a startup rethinking the traditional department store experience, is announcing that it […]
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PM 360 Originally Posted: May 23, 2018 Congratulations to Dedman College alum Edward Allegra who recently received an ELITE 2018 Entrepreneur award from PM360. The award recognizes the most influential people in the healthcare industry. READ MORE Edward C. Allegra Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder BioLum Sciences Innovating Asthma Management Having suffered with childhood asthma, Edward C. […]
Georgetown University Originally Posted: May 15, 2018 Jewel Lipps, an alumna of the University Honors Program and the Dedman College Scholars Program has been awarded a prestigious graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Jewel is pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology at Georgetown University. The award will provide a $34,000 stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance […]
SMU Forum Originally Posted: April 26, 2018 Nobel laureate Barry Clark Barish, Ph.D., Linde Professor Emeritus of Physics at the California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on cosmic gravitational waves, will receive an honorary doctoral degree during SMU’s 103rd all-University Commencement ceremony. The event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 19, 2018, in […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: April 26, 2018 SMU alumnus Mark Masinter has been behind the scenes from the beginning on the hot concept rollouts in retail’s heydays of the 1990s and 2000s: the likes of Restoration Hardware, J.Crew and Apple. Mark Masinter has left a trail of angry activists as he tries to remake […]
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 […]
D Magazine Originally Posted: April 11, 2018 Southern Methodist University soon will have its own incubator for tech-based startups as it aims to boost the local economy. The incubator, which SMU announced Wednesday morning, is expected to occupy 5,000 square feet on the first floor of The Foundry Club, a 25,000-square-foot entrepreneurial club, at Mockingbird […]
MDJ Online Originally Posted: April 5, 2018 If you were to Google “anthropological archeologist,” you’d find a picture of David Crass, Ph.D. A mix between the athletic, earnest Teddy Roosevelt and the adventurous, playful Indiana Jones, he is an archaeologist, an anthropologist, the division director of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and deputy state […]
Daily Campus Originally Posted: March 29, 2018 Alan Marull graduated from SMU in Dec. 2016 with a BA in Economics. SMU alumnus and Big iDeas winner created a website that connects student entrepreneurs with other local students to build businesses and teams. Alan Marull graduated from SMU in 2016, but he started his first business […]