SMU News Releases 2005
Dedman Foundation Provides Matching Gifts
For Law School (12/15/05)
Continuing a long history of support for SMU, the Dedman Foundation has designated $3 million of its $20 million commitment to the School of Law as a matching grant to attract additional gifts for scholarships and faculty positions.
SMU Board Approves Leadership
Structure for Centennial Campaign (12/09/05)
As part of planning for the upcoming Centennial Campaign, SMU’s Board of Trustees has approved a structure for the top level of volunteers who will help to lead the comprehensive major gifts campaign.
SMU Trustees Approve New Master's Program in Management, Name Changes for Other Graduate Programs (12/09/05)
Study Addresses Health Insurance and Heart Transplants (12/06/05)
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SMU and Dallas Museum of Natural History
Announce Missing Fossil Link Dallasaurus (11/16/05)
Scientists
identify amateur paleontologist's find as the origin of an extinct line of lizards with an evolutionary twist: a land-dwelling species that became fully aquatic.
James Lindsay Embrey, Jr. - Obituary (11/12/05)
James Lindsay Embrey, Jr., a respected businessman, community builder, and leader of extraordinary vision and dedication who invested his time, resources, and energy in making life better for all who crossed his path, passed away Friday, November 11, at his home in Dallas.
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Professor Receives Mexico’s Highest Honor for Foreign Nationals (10/26/05)
SMU Dedman Professor of History David Weber has been named to membership in the Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (the Order of the Aztec Eagle), the highest award the Mexican government bestows on foreign nationals.
SMU Named “Champion in Health” (10/26/05)
SMU has received a 2005 "Champions in Health" Award from the Tarrant County Public Health Department and the Health Industry Council of the DFW Region.
SMU Professor Speaks to World Trade Organization (10/26/05)
SMU economist Kamal Saggi was invited to speak before the World Trade Organization Symposium on Trade and Sustainable Development at WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 11.
SMU Honors 2005 Distinguished Alumni (10/24/05)
On November 3, an artist, an engineer, an ambassador, and a journalist will receive the highest honor SMU bestows upon its graduates, the Distinguished Alumni Award.
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SMU Helps Bring the Party Back to Tulane, New Orleans (9/23/05)
Bishop Boulevard, SMU’s tailgate extravaganza, will be transformed when SMU plays Tulane and celebrates the spirit of New Orleans.
SMU Trustees Approve New Ph.D. Program in English (09/01/05)
SMU Plays
Host to Katrina's Victims (8/30/05)
More than 200 Tulane University students
displaced by Hurricane Katrina – including
the entire Tulane football team – are
being relocated to SMU in Dallas early Wednesday
morning.
Dedman
College Dean Jasper Neel to Return to
Teaching (8/29/05)
Dr. Jasper Neel, dean of Dedman College
and vice provost of SMU, has announced
that he will step down from his
administrative position when his current
contract ends, August 15, 2006.
SMU’S
Perkins Youth School of Theology Seeking
Students Who Want To Be Leaders (8/22/05)
The Perkins Youth School of Theology at
SMU’s Perkins
School of Theology is accepting
applications from high school juniors who
are interested in becoming youth leaders
in their churches and communities.
SMU’S
Meadows School of the Arts Dean Carole
Brandt to Retire (8/15/05)
Dr. Carole Brandt, dean of the Algur H.
Meadows School of the Arts at SMU, has announced her
plans to retire from SMU effective May 31,
2006.
SMU’S Perkins
School of Theology Announces New
Faculty Members (8/12/05)
Rev. Dr. Elaine A. Heath has joined the faculty as the
McCreless Assistant Professor of Evangelism. Dr.
Valerie Karras has been named assistant professor of church
history, with a special responsibility for the history of the early
church. And Dr.
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has become associate professor of pastoral
care.
Perkins Announces Faculty and Staff Transitions (07/07/05)
Head of Bridwell Library Accepts Post at Illinois University (07/07/05)
SMU Hosts Event On Survey of Mexican
And U.S. Attitudes (5/18/05)
A survey of Mexican and Americans in 2004
found that despite significant
geopolitical, social and economic
differences separating the U.S. and
Mexico, citizens on both sides of the
border tend to agree on fundamental
issues.
SMU Marks 50th Anniversary Of First
African-American Graduates (5/12/05)
SMU will mark the 50th anniversary of the graduation
of its first African-American students during Saturday's commencement with special
recognition of the Rev. James V. Lyles of Culver City, Calif., and the Rev.
A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco.
Engineering Green: SMU Breaks Ground
On First Sustainable Building (5/12/05)
Every year as much as 45 percent of the nation's energy output is
consumed by buildings; lighting alone accounts for 20 percent of U.S.
electrical output.
SMU Announces Speakers For 2005-06
Tate Lecture Series (4/18/05)
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, journalist Christiane Amanpour and architect
Frank Gehry highlight the 2005-06 season of the Willis M. Tate Distinguished
Lecture Series at SMU.
Dallas Philanthropist Karen Shuford Receives 2005 Maura Award (04/29/05)
Civic Leader Linda Pitts Custard Receives 2005 Maura Award (04/29/05)
UTA Administrator Michele Bobadila Receives 2005 Maura Award (04/29/05)
Educator and Cancer Activist Kathy LaTour Receives 2005 Maura Award (04/29/05)
Girls Inc. Director Ruth Thomas Receives 2005 Maura Award (04/29/05)
Perkins To Host Hip-Hop Worship Service (4/13/05)
SMU's Perkins School of Theology will host an outdoor Hip-Hop Worship Service
at 11:30 a.m. Thursday (April 21) on the steps of Perkins Chapel. Christian
hip-hop recording artist, La Crea, of Denton will perform, and Rev. Tiate Carson,
senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in San Antonio, will preach.
Spanish Architect-Artist Santiago Calatrava
To Give SMU Commencement Address; Three Honorary Degrees To Be Conferred (4/5/05)
Internationally renowned Spanish architect, engineer and sculptor
Santiago Calatrava, whose designs range from the 2004 Olympic Stadium
to Dallas' Trinity River bridges, will give the address at SMU's 90th
annual commencement Saturday, May 14.
National Geographic's Wade
Davis At SMU April 12 (4/5/05)
Wade Davis, renowned anthropologist and author of The Serpent and the Rainbow,
will participate as part of the 2004-05 Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture
Series at SMU.
SMU's Hamon Fine Arts Library Names Three News Librarians (04/05/05)
SMU Names New Vice President (4/4/05)
Dana Gibson has been named vice president for business and finance at
SMU. Gibson has a strong background in academic administration and
teaching in the fields of accounting and information systems.
$1 Million Gift From Stemmons Foundation
To Support New Engineering Building At SMU (3/31/05)
The Stemmons Foundation has given $1 million in support of the new J. Lindsay
Embrey Engineering Building at SMU's School of Engineering.
In recognition of this gift, SMU will name the building's atrium in memory of
prominent Dallas developer John M. Stemmons.
Dr. Mark A. Roglán Named Interim
Director Of The Meadows Museum (3/18/05)
Dr. Mark A. Roglán has been appointed interim director of the Meadows
Museum at SMU, effective May 1, 2005.
Yale Dean Named SMU Provost (3/9/05)
Yale University Dean Robert Blocker has been named provost and vice president
for academic affairs at SMU.
Spring Youth Forum For Perkins Youth
School Of Theology (3/9/05)
Dallas-Fort Worth area youth interested in community service or the ministry
will gather at a Spring Youth Forum on Saturday, March 19 on the SMU campus.
SMU Forms New School Of Education and
Human Development (3/7/05)
The SMU Board of Trustees has voted to create a new School of Education and
Human Development, to fill critical needs in the advancement of teacher training
and research on language acquisition and literacy.
Methodists and Catholics to Hold Dialogue on Unity (02/28/05)
Lonnie D. Brooks of Anchorage to Receive 2005 Woodrow B. Seals Laity Award (02/07/05)
First-Year Students to Encounter the Working Poor Through Best-Selling Book (02/07/05)
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell Receives 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Perkins School of Theology (02/07/05)
First-Ever Women's Video Game Scholarships
Awarded (1/7/05)
The Guildhall at SMU and WomenGamers.com have announced recipients of the first-ever
women's only, industry-funded scholarships to attend the school, a one-of-a-kind
digital games education program. Three newly enrolled and two existing female
Guildhall students have received a total of $14,000 through the new scholarship
fund.