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Haley Taylor Schlitz was accepted at nine law schools but opted to enroll at SMU Dedman School of Law, in part so she can still live at home with her parents. Read the feature story in the Texas Lawyer.
SMU Research With Impact
SMU’s data-empowered faculty and students deploy research as a force for good in a relentless quest for solutions with lasting impact. Read how SMU is breaking ground on a new home for digital explorers with the new Gerald J. Ford Hall for Research and Innovation.
SMU, Lift Literacy App Tied for Grand Prize in $7 Million XPrize Competition
The SMU-LIFT team, PeopleforWords, won $1.5 million as a grand prize winner and $1 million in a tie for most effective app to help adult English language learners and native English learners learn to read in the competition presented by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
There's a new Texas dinosaur on the books
SMU scientists Kate Andrzejewski, with Dale Winkler and Louis Jacobs have identified Convolosaurus marri from fossils collected at Proctor Lake. The research has published in the journal PLOS ONE.
“It’s surreal. It’s like a pop-up book: we had the exhibit laid out on paper, and then you walk in and see all the work that’s been done. It’s so cool to see a specimen that you’ve spent so much time with lit up and on display.”
Powerhouse authors discuss impeachment at SMU; Listen to KERA podcast now
What's the reality behind presidential impeachment? KERA radio host Krys Boyd moderates this SMU discussion featuring SMU's Jeffrey Engel, historians Jon Meacham and Timothy Naftali, and New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker.
Engineering student Azucena Milan ’20 brings her research know-how to her neighborhood
Azucena jumped at the invitation to participate in the study of infrastructure conditions in Vickery Meadow. Her background and knowledge of the area allowed her to take a key research role in the project.
Campus Events
March 30: Friends of the Libraries, Literati Award will be presented to Jim Lehrer, Tables of Content
April 2: Tate Lecture - Amy Cuddy.
April 8 through May 4: Asian American Heritage Month - SMU celebrates Asian American Heritage Month! Nationally celebrated in May, we celebrate starting in April to celebrate with our students before the semester ends. Programming will be hosted throughout the month, please join us!
April 9: The Future of Saudi-American Relations in the Wake of the Khashoggi Killing - Dr. F. Gregory Gause, III, joined the Bush School in 2014 as the head of the Department of International Affairs.
Campus Exhibits
A Highway to the Pacific: The Transcontinental Railroad, Hillcrest Foundation Exhibit Hall, Fondren Library West — through May 19
Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library Second Floor — through August
Modern Masters Tapestries, Fondren Library — through May
Monuments of Early Greek Printing, Bridwell Library — through May 20
The Word Embodied: Scripture as Creative Inspiration in Twentieth-Century Book Arts, Bridwell Library — through June 15
Goya’s Visions in Ink: The Centerpiece of the Meadows Drawings Collection, Meadows Museum — April 30 – November 3, 2019