Big iDeas Fall Symposium set for Nov. 16
Student teams who have won "Big iDea" grants to help implement their ideas for addressing problems in the Dallas area will report on their progress and findings Friday, November 16, at SMU's Big iDeas Fall Symposium.
The symposium will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Forum of the Hughes-Trigg Student Center. The program will be followed by a reception.
Big iDeas at SMU, backed by the Office of the Provost, supports University student teams who were selected after submitting proposals to define, study and address the most important issues facing our home community. Teams received grants of up to $5,000.
Grant recipients and their "Big iDeas" at Friday's symposium are:
| Big iDea | Grant Team |
| "The [Untitled] Festival: Dallas” | James Ryan Jillson Shannon Delatorre Katrina Leshan |
| "Dallas Refugee Community'' | Jose Ramon Campos Samantha Matthews Ryan Wilson Smith |
| "Green Riba" | Rahfin Faruk Daisuke Takeda |
| "STEM Future Dallas" | Jacob Fleming Jessie Hart Joey Ottolenghi Alex Saucedo |
| "KAIROS Undergraduate Publication" | Arnaud Zimmern Tyler Douglas Anderson Brandon Bub Rahfin Faruk TaylorKara Rachel Stonecipher |
| "Momentum" | Julianna Bond Sara Kendrick Emily Le |
| "Open Minds" | Snow Nguyen Kiara Benson Genesis Reed |
| "SMU - West Dallas Youth Cultural Initiative | Savannah Niles Ray Henninger |
The 2013 proposals are due Friday, January 25, 2013. For more information, visit http://smu.edu/bigideas/