Updates on Coronavirus
Ongoing updates from SMU to help navigate learning, teaching and working during this challenging time. Read more here.
SMU Center for Family Counseling offers free remote services
SMU’s Center for Family Counseling is now offering free telehealth counseling to anyone who needs it during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pivoting to stay in touch spiritually
From mastering online learning to delivering conference-call sermons, Perkins School faculty, staff and students are embracing technology to stay spiritually connected while physically apart.
Reassuring kids during COVID-19
The disruption of daily routines is tough on families, especially children. SMU’s counseling program offers advice for helping your kids feel safe during this uncertain time.
Avoid turning home into ‘Camp Chaos’
First, take a deep breath. Next, try to approach sheltering at home with a sense of challenge, even adventure, says SMU psychologist George Holden. Check out his pointers for using this time to grow closer as a family.
Understanding our viral adversary
It’s small and sneaky, turning its hosts into virus-spreading machines. Find out more from an SMU virologist’s answers to five big questions about the coronavirus.
Take care of yourself during these tough times
11 tips and resources to help you stay emotionally well during these times.
DIG manufactures face shields for area medical professionals
What do you do with an idle makerspace in the middle of a global pandemic? Manufacture medical personal protective equipment (PPE), of course.
Cybersecurity matters more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic isn’t just a serious threat to people’s health. It’s also giving cybercriminals the perfect opportunity to access your computer and potentially steal sensitive information, warns an SMU cybersecurity expert.
“At SMU, I learned how to bring people together. I also learned how to juggle classes, work, activities, community service and family. These experiences prepared me well for the world of consulting.”
Campus Events
SMU has canceled or postponed on-campus events through the end of April.
Please consider visiting the Student Emergency Fund website to support students with limited resources who are now faced with unforeseen financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Campus Exhibits
Dan Wingren: The Image and Magic, Hamon Arts Library Second Floor — through August 1
Allyson Packer: Sounding, Hamon Arts Library Second Floor — through March 29
Berruguete Through the Lens: Photographs from a Barcelona Archive, at the Meadows Museum — March 29 – July 26