After receiving more than 50 applications from scholars across the United States, the Latino Center for Leadership and Development (LCLD) and the SMU Tower Center awarded seven grants to scholars earlier this month interested in understanding the Latino experience in the United States focusing on issues such as immigration and education.
Sionaidh Douglass-Scott Warns Parliament Against Giving Away Power in Brexit
Tower Center Fellow Sionaidh Douglass-Scott wrote an article for the UK’s Prospect magazine…
Fellow Shubha Ghosh Discusses Allegran Patent on Bloomberg
Tower Center Fellow, Shubha Ghosh, director of the Syracuse University Intellectual Property…
The Tower Center and LatinoCLD Host National Conference, Release First Series of Policy Briefs
DALLAS, TX – The SMU Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership and Development (LCLD) are hosting The Nation at a Crossroads: A National Latino Policy Conference on June 9 at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
The conference is designed to highlight and stimulate discussion on the issues most pressing to the Latino community in Texas and the broader U.S. The six panels, comprised of a mix of national experts, state and municipal leadership, as well as local stakeholders, will explore solutions around the 2020 Census, redistricting, voter rights, immigration, unaccompanied minors, and U.S. – Mexico relations.
Why Aid Remains Out of Reach for Some Rohingya Refugees
Ashvina Patel, a PhD candidate at SMU’s Department of Anthropology, wrote a…
Center Spotlight | Victoria Farrar-Myers
This month’s spotlight is with Tower Scholars Program Director Victoria Farrar-Myers. Victoria sits on Arlington’s City Council and teaches classes within the Tower Scholars Program on public policy. Her research focuses on the democratic process and the separation of powers. We sat down with her to see what it’s like to wear two hats–one as a policymaker and another as a professor.
Darab Ganji Calls on Trump to Support Freedom Movement in Iran
Tower Center Board Member and political economist Darab Ganji wrote an op-ed…
Student Perspective | President Trump, NAFTA and the Future of US Trade Policy
The SMU Tower Center Sun & Star Program hosted the conversation “President Trump, NAFTA and the Future of US Trade Policy” featuring Edward Alden, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, April 27. HCM Tower Scholar Visakh Madathil wrote about what he learned at the lecture in his essay below, “A Failure to Adjust.”
Mattew Wilson Comments on President Trump’s NRA Speech
Tower Center Senior Fellow Matthew Wilson was interviewed by BBC Weekend about…
Center Spotlight | Jesus Canas
For this month’s spotlight the SMU Tower Center interviewed Fellow Jesus Canas, a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Canas analyzes regional economic growth, specializing on the border economy. He talked to us about the NAFTA renegotiation and the looming presidential election in Mexico.