SMU in the News

Following are highlights of stories about SMU or stories that relied on the expertise of SMU faculty and others. The links are not maintained by SMU but were working when they posted here. 

News

Amarillo Magazine

• SMU Trustee Richard Ware nicely profiled as the fourth of five generations of family leadership at Amarillo National Bank

D Magazine

• Simon Mak, Cox, gets a nice thank you from an entrepreneurial student who owns a trendy Dallas restaurant

Dallas Innovates

• David Meltzer, Dedman, ancient hunter gatherers created networks to minimize inbreeding

Dallas Morning News

• Mustangs win!
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• Chad Morris addresses team after winning game
• Blake Hackler, Meadows, to direct his play Enemies/People during Dallas-based Second Thought Theatre’s 2018 season
• Cullum Clark, Dedman, co-hosted with Cox Folsom Institute a symposium last week to address migration trends to urban and suburban regions among minorities, immigrants and millennials
• SMU Cox’s Brierley Institute for Customer Engagement hosted last week a panel discussion with the father of customer engagement

FOX DFW

• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, on the Republican power shift

Herald-Democrat

Bill Lawrence, Perkins, 500 years ago,  Ninety-five Theses changed Christianity

Houston Chronicle

• SMU cited as source for story about the effects of reconsidering NAFTA

New York Times

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, citizenship applications in the U.S. surge as immigration talk toughens

North Texas e-News

• SMU Honors Distinguished Alumni and Emerging Leader

San Antonio Express-News

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, Texas legislators caught off guard by House Speaker Joe Strauss’ announcement to not run for re-election
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The Street

• Mike Davis and Bernard Weinstein, Cox, proposed gas tax could harm consumers

Texas Monthly

• SMU seismologists mentioned in a story about TexNet, UT’s new earthquake monitoring system
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Texas Standard

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, non-disclosure agreements can hurt and help victims of sexual harassment and assault

Students

• SMU student Charles Scudder goes mum shopping
• SMU student/U.S. Army veteran Jason Waller starts company to help other veterans secure jobs
• SMU student Karen Guan writes about forgotten history of Native American genocide

Alumni

• SMU alumnus Stephen Tobolowsky talks about finding meaning in stories we can’t explain
• SMU alumna Allison V. Smith has a photography exhibit at Grace Museum in Abilene, through Feb. 10, 2018
• SMU alums Cole Beasley, Margus Hunt, Thomas Morstead and Aldrick Robinson – how they fared in NFL week 7
• SMU alumna Whitney Wolfe launches her new business app Bumble Bizz
• SMU alumna Jan Jolliffe lifelong love of books lands her at the library system in Scottsbluff, Neb.

Compiled by Cherri Gann ’15
Cordinator, SMU News & Communications
Office of Public Affairs
214-768-7657
cgann@smu.edu

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