In the first round of the competition, Chipotle announced Nov. 3, 2006, that an eight-member team of SMU students had submitted the best commercial and were the winners of the round's $20,000 prize for their 30-second spot, The Wall. Read more
SMU Senior Named a Presidential
Fellow
Caitlin Sharp, a senior political science major, has been named a
Fellow of the Center for the Study of the Presidency in Washington,
D.C. This program offers a yearlong opportunity to study the U.S.
Presidency and is available to 65 select undergraduate and graduate
students from leading colleges and universities. Fellows come to
Washington, D.C., for personal briefings by national media
representatives, networking opportunities with decision makers and a
chance to learn firsthand about the policymaking process.
SMU Students Assist The Dance
Theatre Of Harlem
Associate professor Maria Dixon and the 2006-07 student consultants
of SMU Mustang Consulting
will travel to New York next summer to work with their new client,
the Dance Theatre of
Harlem. Mustang Consulting will assist the dance theatre
with the development of communication strategies and campaigns in
their effort to create new audiences for the classical arts. The
group consists of select SMU students who are majoring in
Corporate Communications
and Public Affairs. Mustang Consulting, under Professor Dixon's
guidance, provides CCPA students with a hands-on opportunity to both
learn and implement communications theory and serve in the position
of communications consultants. The course is structured as a
consulting firm designed to use the concepts of organizational
communications to solve the organizational concerns of a client and
provide a forum in which students are placed in a real job with a
real client. Last year, they worked with Southwest Airlines.
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Favorite Business Professor Spotlighted
BusinessWeek asked business undergrads to tell us about their
favorite professors. Here is another installment in the series.
Professor Jeff Hart from the Cox School of Business is spotlighted
here for his creative, yet effective teaching methods.
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Senior
Named
Among
Top
10
College
Women
Liz Healy, a senior advertising major and SMU's student
representative to the Board of Trustees, has been named one of
Glamour magazine's Top 10
College Women. Liz led a relief campaign to help the victims of
Hurricane Katrina and also created a partnership with the EPA for
green sources of energy for SMU.
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Reality
TV - Big Smarts, Big
Winners
Known as “The Geniuses,” SMU students Sam Khurana, Francis
Goldschmid, and Charles Taylor won $3 million on NBC’s reality show,
Treasure
Hunters. They solved the contest’s final clue
– FSKEY – and opened the vault before the “Southie Boys” and “Air
Force” could figure it out.
Read more.