SMU in the News

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Artsy

• Alexis McCrossen, Dedman, how a crystal-covered ball became a symbol of the new year

Birmingham News

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, all-woman showdown in Alabama governor's race

Creative Live

• CUL, vintage photo included among a collection of Christmases past

Dallas Innovates

• Guildhall, launched gaming tech to fight disease, in Dec.

• Lynn Stokes, Dedman, helping the U.S. Department of Commerce count red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico

Dallas Morning News

• SMU receives $1 million from the Moody Foundation to support Owen Arts Center renovation and Simmons School research

• SMU (Meadows) cited as strong supporter of Dallas’ booming dance scene

• Carol Leone, Meadows, and SMU student Eliana Yi, standard pianos a big problem for musicians with small hands, but SMU's trying to help

• SMU mentioned in a story about Latino student graduation rates

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, on Texan of the Year Joe Straus

• SMU seismology mentioned in an op-ed commentary about the Texas Railroad Commission

• Crum Basketball Center gets new graphics

• Mustangs MBB wins!

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FOX DFW

• Alexis McCrossen, Dedman, Americans’ changing view of New Year’s

• John Potter, Simmons, apologize the right way

KERA

• Anne Schilling, Meadows, Q&A with the voice and dialect coach

New York Times

• Jeffrey Engel, Dedman, for Trump, a year of reinventing the presidency

Reuters

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, Americans differ on acceptable behavior
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San Antonio Express-News

• Cal Jillson, Dedman, Texas animal-welfare advocates add firepower with political action committee

The Street

• Dan Howard, Cox, too many shopping deals are hurting consumers

Verdict

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, commentary, America’s reckoning with sexual harassment

Vox

• Joanna Grossman, Dedman Law, commentary, groping is a crime

Students

• SMU students racecar stolen from trailer in Northeast Dallas
• SMU student Karen Guen writes about a sexual assault case

Alumni

• SMU alums Edward Allegra, Miguel Quimbar and Jack Reynolds, co-founders of BioLum Sciences, which was honored by PM360 magazine as one of 14 most innovative startups in 2017
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• SMU alumnus Norm Bagwell profiled in his office where he is CEO of the Bank of Texas
• SMU alumnus Jorge Baldor is a DMN Texan of the Year finalist for his quiet philanthropy that helps transform Dallas
• SMU alumna Susan Bowers one of four honorees for the 2017 Pillar of the Plains award for fundraising work for a local children’s museum
• SMU alumna Carissa Coniglio, chairing the 2018 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s WILD Black-Tie Gala, in Palm Beach, Fla.
• SMU alumna Amber Venz Box on being a mom and a tech entrepreneur
• SMU alumnus J. Bruce Bugg Jr. profiled as a Texas power broker
• SMU alumna Elyse Dickerson started a business after a layoff
• SMU alumnus Agustin Gonzalez, founder of Paranoid Fan app opening a new office in Madrid
• SMU alumnus/Mizzen+Main founder Kevin LaVelle reflects on how gratitude changed his life
• SMU alumnus/choreographer Joshua Peugh included in a list of favorite dance experiences
• SMU alumna Rev. Betsy Singleton Snyder, a force for change
• SMU alumna Emily Summers, Q&A, when taste and style collide
• SMU alumnus W. Brent West retires after nearly 34 years as Utah’s 2nd District Court judge
• SMU alumna Whitney Wolfe, beating her old colleagues at their own game

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