SMU in the News

Following are highlights of stories about SMU or stories that relied on the expertise of SMU faculty and others. The links are not maintained by SMU but were working when they posted here.

News

Albuquerque Journal

• David Weber, Dedman emeritus, first-person accounts of sites explore history, identity of the West in new book First Impressions

Campus Weekly

• Olympian Nastia Liukin spoke on campus last week, co-hosted by the Delta Gamma fraternity and the Maguire Center

CBS Sports

• SMU PwC Athletic Forum featured former NBA-star Charles Barkley
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CNHI

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus could face GOP censure

D Magazine

• Matthew Myers, Cox, donning TCU garb after pigskin bet

DADA

• Mary Vernon, Meadows, new exhibition opened last weekend at Dallas’ Valley House Gallery

Daily Orange (Syracuse University)

• SMU mentioned in a story comparing Syracuse University’s on-campus housing requirement

Dallas Innovates

• Bonnie Jacobs, Dedman, new research cracks the mystery of leaf size

Dallas Morning News

• SMU alums Sheila and Jody Grant pledge $1.5 million to SMU’s Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center
• Mustangs win!
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• Heather DeShon, Dedman, new study finds that the fault that produced North Texas' largest quake could produce an even bigger one
• SMU mentioned in a story about DFW’s labor pool in anticipation of Amazon’s second headquarters
• Lauren Smart, Meadows, world of haunted houses inspires new photo exhibition in Fort Worth

The Financial

• Robert Lawson, Cox, country of Georgia's economic reforms receive high rankings

FOX DFW

• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, reactions to Trump’s U.N. speech

Houston Chronicle

• Tom Mayo, Dedman Law, lawsuit challenging Texas' futile care law goes before judge

KRLD

• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, Trump’s first United Nations appearance, analysis (no link available)

National Science Foundation

• Leanne Ketterlin Geller and Lindsey Perry, Simmons, receive an NSF grant for their research on measuring early mathematical reasoning skills

Poets and Quants

• Barry Bryan and William Maxwell, Cox, among this publication’s Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professors
• Greg Sommers, Cox, a nationwide Favorite Professor of the Class of 2017

Shreveport Times

• Perkins partners with Centenary College to provide preferred consideration and early decision admission to Centenary graduates

WABC (John Batchelor Show)

• Bernard Weinstein, Cox, Houston energy sector roars back from Harvey

WFAE (NPR Charlotte, NC)

• Bernard Weinstein, Cox, the future of energy

The Wrap

• SMU (Meadows) ranks No. 48 in this pub’s second annual list of Top 50 film schools

Yahoo Finance

• Michael Cox, Cox, no interest rate hike yet, according to the Federal Reserve Bank

Students

• SMU student Sam Weber, SMU Family Weekend Musical performed Into the Woods last weekend

Alums

• SMU alumnus Brandon Carson commissioned to create a new score for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance's Big Bad Wolf
• SMU alumnus Matt Cusick creates art with vintage maps
• SMU alumnus Tim Seibles poet laureate of Virginia
• SMU alumna Elizabeth Carlock Phillips helps women in need
• SMU alums’ Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box RewardStyle business continues to make a big splash in retail with its cast of social influencers
     
• SMU alum Erin Nealy Cox nominated to serve as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas
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Compiled by Cherri Gann ’15 
Coordinator, SMU News & Communications | Office of Public Affairs
214-768-7657 | cgann@smu.edu
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