Fresh off a 37-30 victory on the road last week against Arkansas State, the Mustangs will host UNT on September 7. Kickoff is at 6 p.m. in Ford Stadium.
CJ Sanders was named the AAC Special Teams Player of the Week after a 98-yard kickoff return TD against Arkansas State, while Xavier Jones earned an honor roll nod for a three-TD performance in the opener.
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Category: September 2019
Sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell and author Malcolm Gladwell are among the speakers bringing their unique perspectives on building bridges across the cultural divide to SMU.
Bell is the Emmy-award winning host of the CNN original series United Shades of America, which explores such topics as the emerging Sikh culture in California, the South Carolina Gullah culture, the new Klu Klux Klan and the people of Appalachia in an effort to bring a deeper understanding of the rich cultural shades that are the fabric of America. He will speak about “The Bridge of Racial Difference” on Thursday, September 19.
In his new book, Talking with Strangers, Gladwell takes a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology and scandals taken straight from the news to illustrate how and probe the reasons why interactions with strangers often go terribly wrong. He will discuss his book on Monday, October 7.
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Australian Gillian Triggs ’72 brings decades of experience as an academic, lawyer, advocate and public policy expert to her new role as assistant high commissioner for protection in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Triggs recently served a five-year term as president of the Australian Human Rights Commission. An expert in international law, she has an extensive history of dedicated service to human rights and the refugee cause in Australia, the Asia-Pacific Region and globally.
She holds a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in law from the University of Melbourne and a master’s degree in law from SMU.
Read more at Dedman Law.
Stirling Barrett’s sunglasses have been spotted on Beyoncé, Kristen Bell and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex. But before hestarted KREWE, a multimillion-dollar eyewear brand that was named the runner-up in the 2016 Vogue Fashion Fund, he learned his “radical attention to detail” at the Temerlin Advertising Institute.“My time at SMU Meadows was extremely positive,” Barrett said. “It helped me develop a dedicated work ethic. And it taught me that traditional art forms were not the only form of creativity.”
Read more at SMU Meadows.
Cross-border venture capital investments play an important role in the scaling up of high growth companies, according to Wendy Bradley, strategy professor in the Cox School of Business. Foreign capital, expertise and the networks that accompany cross-border investments are welcome by startup ventures. However, a concern is that they transfer the majority of economic activity to the investor country. In new research, Bradley and her co-authors develop a framework to help policymakers develop a coherent set of policies for cross-border venture capital investments
Read more at SMU Cox.
Math is omnipresent — found in video games, participatory sports and even on walks to the park, writes Candace Walkington in a recent posting about education for Inside Sources. Walkington, associate professor in SMU’s Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, suggests ways of seizing opportunities to connect math to everyday activities to make learning more interesting and relevant – more personal – for math students.
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