SMU in the News

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Boston Globe

• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, Trump’s greatest mission: erasing Obama’s legacy

Broadway World

• Ruth Altshuler, Dallas Summer Musicals dedicates White Christmas shows to the late SMU trustee/benefactor

Country Roads Magazine

• Judy Henneberger, SMU associate chaplain, remembers meeting then-Senator John F. Kennedy in 1959

Christian Science Monitor

• Sarah Feuerbacher, Simmons, on gun violence, blaming mental illness may only deepen stigma

D Magazine

• Cox, partnered with Dallas-based Granite Properties to present a corporate leadership course for tenants at its properties
• SMU mentioned in a posthumous profile of Connell Miller Sr., amateur photographer in the 1940s-50s
• SMU mentioned in a profile about Dallas-based sports apparel brand Roka
• SMU mentioned in a story about vintage news film footage recently donated to the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection
• Micheal Cox and Richard Alm, Dallas innovation economy could compete with Silicon Valley

Daily Texan

• Op-ed, SMU sets example for college students engagement with polarizing speakers

Dallas Business Journal

• Richard A. Briesch, Cox, Dallas Arboretum's Economic impact on the North Texas region was significant the last two years
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Dallas Innovates

• SMU receives $15 million gift from Nancy Ann Hunt Foundation to endow its Hunt Leadership Scholars Program
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• Bruce Gnade, Lyle School, named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional honor given to academic inventors
• Danila Serra, Dedman, receives the budding genius award from the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (third item)

Dallas Morning News

• Sonny Dykes, SMU’s new football coach
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• Mustangs MBB win!
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• New indoor practice facility coming in 2018
• RIP, SMU trustee Ruth Althsuler
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• Editorial, drown hate speech with love

Dallas Observer

• Michael Corris, Meadows, Dallas-based Ash Studios contest a fire marshal citation in court

Fire Rescue 1

• SMU PD Officer Josh Benavides helped save man’s life from heart attack during recent marathon in Dallas

Investor’s Business Daily

• Dean Stansel, Cox, commentary, New York, California are rock bottom on economic freedom — again

KRLD

• Steve Lee, Meadows, IKEA opens in Grand Prairie; Disney acquires 21^st Century Fox assets  (No link available)

Military Embedded Systems

• SMU mentioned in a story about a DARPA hackfest held last month in California

NBC DFW

• SMU seismologists mentioned in a story about North Texas earthquakes
• Cal Jillson, Dedman, fallout could continue after Alabama U.S. Senate election
• Suku Nair, Lyle School, what does the net neutrality decision mean?

New York Magazine

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, is the judiciary ready to handle harassment charges?

Thailand Mirror

• Muku Santhanakrishnan, Cox, students benefit from new STEM designation for M.S. in finance

Washington Examiner

• Dominique J. Baker, Simmons, students protesting privilege can do so because of their own privilege – according to this study

Alumni

• SMU alumnus Lou Moreira chasing the Olympic dream
• SMU alumna/sculptor Sherry Owens makes art with tree limbs
• SMU alumna/congressional candidate Lillian Salerno, Q&A

Compiled by Cherri Gann ’15
Coordinator
SMU News & Communications
Office of Public Affairs

214-768-7657 | cgann@smu.edu

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