June 2021
Lauding Mustangs’ leadership, innovation and community spirit
The extraordinary achievements, outstanding character and community leadership of SMU’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Awards and Emerging Leader Award recipients make us all proud to be Mustangs. We hope you will join us Thursday, September 30 for a ceremony and dinner in their honor to launch Homecoming festivities.
Game. Set. Match.
A $4 million gift from Mark ’87 and Jennifer Styslinger ’86 and the Altec/Styslinger Foundation will shape and sustain future tennis champions in the newly named Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex.
Leading the way to a brighter, bolder future
Thanks to support totaling more than $145 million from Mustangs like you, SMU is celebrating the end of another record-breaking fiscal year and the beginning of great things to come.
Thank you, George Killebrew ’85!
We celebrate this loyal Mustang for his service as SMU Alumni Board chair, 2018 to 2021.
‘Believe in yourself … to unlock your own power’
Watch Whitney Wolfe Herd ’11, founder and CEO of Bumble, delivering the address at May Commencement, and enjoy photos of golden moments as the classes of 1970 and 1971 gathered at graduation and for their 50-year reunion.
Meet some of our newest young alums
Our students perfected the pivot while earning degrees. Now they’re ready to use their know-how to do a world of good. Learn more about some of our outstanding recent grads.
Biochemistry major earns Goldwater Scholarship
Becoming a Dedman College Scholar tipped the scales toward SMU for Gabrielle Gard ’22, whose undergraduate research with biology professor Pia Vogel has fueled her interest in drug-resistant cancers.
World Athletics ruling based on SMU study
Research led by renowned human speed expert Peter Weyand showed that unnaturally long, blade-like prostheses could give a Paralympic sprinter an edge in Olympic competition.
ICYMI: In Case You Missed It
Check out more great stories and videos about the people, projects and events making news on the Hilltop. Remembering George Floyd Rowing makes conference history at nationals Men’s golf earns another top 20 finish Mustangs on the fast track Meet two ‘best and brightest’ 2021 MBA grads Persevering and progressing with historian John R. Chávez Jenny B. Davis ’84: Fashioning a career at SMU Watch: Get fired up for Mustang sports