SMU in the News

News

ABC DFW

• Cox sponsors Business Relay Race as part of 2017 BMW Dallas Marathon
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The Associated Press

• Dr. Turner denounces racist flyers

The Atlantic

• Dave Thomas, Lyle School adjunct, a winter getaway turned the software world upside down

The CEO Magazine

• Robin Pinkley, Cox, how CEOs can enhance negotiating skills

Chronicle of Higher Education

• Dominique Baker, Simmons, is protesting a privilege?

D Magazine

• Sunday Eiselt, Dedman, did Dallas really “come from nothing”?

• Joseph Cahoon, Cox, a day in the life of the director of the Folsom Institute for Real Estate at Cox

Dallas Morning News

• RIP, SMU trustee, benefactor Ruth Altshuler
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• SMU receives $15 million gift from Nancy Ann Hunt Foundation for Hunt Scholars program
• Lauren Smart, Meadows, women in the arts world have kept tabs on harassers for years
• Meadows Museum, 12 Spanish Baroque paintings from Auckland Castle make their U.S. debut in Dallas
• So long Chad Morris, here’s his legacy

Denton Record-Chronicle

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, professors explain the role of Texas state senators

ESPN

• RIP, former Mustangs football coach Ron Meyer
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FOX Cleveland

• George Holden, Dedman, spanking children can lead to relationship violence later, according to a recent study

FOX DFW

• Cullum Clark, Dedman, charities hold breath as lawmakers work on tax reform

Houston Chronicle

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, Democrats' field growing crowded as filing for 2018 races ends today

KERA

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, former Dallas County Sherriff Lupe Valdez will need money and a message to challenge Gov. Abbott
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• Cal Jillson, Dedman, another Democrat, Andrew White, enters Texas gubernatorial race
• Rick Worland, Meadows, the history of sympathetic movie monsters
• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, after sexual harassment allegations, does the workplace need a culture shift?

Nature

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman law, nine researchers sue University of Rochester over sexual-harassment allegations

New York Times

• Thomas Knock, Dedman, commentary, George McGovern, Vietnam and the Democratic crackup
• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, new book When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush among the nonfiction selections in this publication’s weekly book review

NPR

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, Texas Legislature braces for a sexual harassment reckoning

Oil and Gas Investor

• James Coleman, Cox, tall order to secure permits for a British Columbian pipeline

Poets & Quants

• Cox BBA program listed as No. 19 out of 82 programs ranked in the nation

Sinclair Broadcast Group

• Stephanie Martin, Meadows, dissonance grows between economic performance and Trump approval

Think Geoenergy

• SMU to host the Drilling into Geothermal Applications Conference in Jan.

Yahoo News

• Kathleen Wellman, Dedman, voucher schools championed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos can teach whatever they want

American Institute of Physics

• MinJun Kim, Lyle School, biotemplates breakthrough paves way for cheaper nanobots

Commscope

• Volkan Otugen, Lyle School, blog post about SMU’s M.S. in Datacenter System Engineering

Students

• SMU student Wang Yinuo was named a Gold Medalist at the 67th Wideman International Piano Competition, held last week at Centenary College
• SMU student Courtney Lacy comments on tax-free tuition for graduate students
• SMU student-athlete Mauro Cichero named First-Team All-American for men’s soccer

Alumni

• SMU alumnus/Human Rights Initiative Executive Director Bill Holston, first-ever Human Rights Day DFW held last weekend
• SMU alumna Kian Hervey started Forty magazine to help Millennials move from campus to corporate office
• SMU alumnus Hunter Howard, commentary about the CVS acquisition of Aetna
• SMU alumnus Joe Lawrence, profiled as COO of Porsche
• SMU alums Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box, discuss building their company rewardStyle

Compiled by Cherri Gann ’15
Coordinator
SMU News & Communications | Office of Public Affairs
214-768-7657 | cgann@smu.edu
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