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Unexpected Change Brings Unexpected Rewards

Tower Center Blog Originally Posted: October 8, 2020 Allison Schultz ’21, a Highland Capital Management Tower Scholar and recipient of the Hamon Internship, quickly adapted her summer internship at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to an online-only format. Although she was not able to interact in person, her experience was no less diminished. Find out what Allison […]

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SMU Hilltopics Editor and Dedman College Scholar Pens Farewell Letter

SMU Hilltopics Originally Posted: July 12, 2018 Hello from the 2018 Summer Edition of Hilltopics! For those of you who are new readers (I’m looking at you, slightly-terrified new SMU Honors student reading this at orientation) I’d like to provide a brief explanation. Hilltopics is SMU’s Honors magazine: an independently funded, student-run publication dedicated to […]

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Dedman College Alumna Jewel Lipps Wins NSF Fellowship

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 […]

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Until Dallas County Embraces Criminal Justice Reform, There’s the Community Bail Fund

D Magazine, Frontburner Originally Posted: March 30, 2018 Even before a lawsuit took Dallas County to task for a cash bail system that unjustly keeps poor people behind bars, some officials had already recognized the need for change. But until there is meaningful bail reform, hundreds of people, convicted of no crime but unable to pay […]

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Listen: People in jail before trial risk losing jobs kids this SMU student wants to bail them out.

Texas Standard Originally Posted: March 19, 2018     “There’s thousands of people sitting in the Dallas County jail because they can’t pay for bail. And it’s not because they’re a threat to society, it’s not because they are dangerous to themselves or others, it’s because they’re poor.” LISTEN

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Listen: People In Jail Before Trial Risk Losing Jobs, Kids. This SMU Student Wants To Bail Them Out

KERA Originally Posted: March 13, 2018 When people are arrested and can’t afford to bail themselves out, they can sit in jail for days or even weeks awaiting trial. That may cost them their house, job or kids. A 21-year-old SMU student is trying to level the playing field by starting a bail fund of his own. Losing […]