Read about the inspiring journeys of our students, the incredible accomplishments of our alumni, and the many ways our faculty are making a difference in their areas of research. Whether they are overcoming obstacles, achieving their goals, or making an impact on the world, we celebrate their stories.
Mustangs from across campus are wrapping up their time on the Hilltop – and preparing to go change the world.
April 17, 2023
How the Deason Center is helping reform a constitutional crisis across the nation
April 12, 2023
Collaboration struck a chord between music students in Meadows School of the Arts and game development students at SMU Guildhall.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, learn about the women who make our campus an enterprising, vibrant and welcoming community.
When we come together on SMU Giving Day, we show the world what Mustangs can do.
SMU alumni across the country are cooking up sweet treats and savory snacks — and using the skills they learned on campus to do it.
SMU plays a key role in pioneering West Dallas STEM school
February 21, 2023
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD will fuel a transformational high-performance computing ecosystem for SMU and beyond.
February 16, 2023
A new historical marker honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1966 visit to campus. Learn how students — both then and now — made it happen.
February 08, 2023
For some, it happened on campus during their first year. For others, it happened decades later over a shared connection. Regardless of when or how, many Mustangs have found love through their alma mater. We’ve collected a few Mustang love stories that are sure to warm your heart this Valentine’s Day.
February 07, 2023
The new year is a great time to add in some healthy habits – not just short-term resolutions but real ways to help you prepare for the busy semester ahead. At SMU, we care about your whole well-being. Whether that’s taking part in intramurals to stay active, learning new stress-relief strategies to keep calm, or finding a spiritual home on campus, take a peek at the resources below to find what works for you.
December 15, 2022
Discover how Boateng forged a successful path on the Hilltop with the help of Access SMU.
December 08, 2022
Stuyvie Coleman ’21 seeks to bring hope and healing to students struggling with addiction and mental health. His personal quest is changing hearts and opening wallets – while saving lives.
SMU has a diverse set of people, opportunities and experiences to help you through the school year. Explore what the Hilltop has to offer.
Tapping business plan tips, a network of mentors and serious seed funding, startup-minded students aiming to transform their bold ideas into businesses get the edge they need to succeed.
Find out how students tackled the ultimate DIY challenge by building a “baby supercomputer” with big potential for their artificial intelligence research.
Startup co-founder Seun Suberu ’23 arrived on campus with big ambitions for the future of his CollegePlus app. Fast forward three years, and Suberu has honed new business skills while earning more than $85,000 in funding through multiple SMU competitions designed to jump-start student-led innovation.
Acclaimed education advocate and NFL athlete Kelvin Beachum ’10, ’12 utilizes art as another way to bring people together to explore and understand our complex world.
Hannah Clark ’23 never dreamed NASA would be in her future. Now she’s completing her second stint with the space agency where she’s working on an engineering challenge for other students.
A team of SMU researchers use satellite radar imagery to reveal hundreds of unseen landslides occurring in Western U.S. states.
Researchers combined street-level investigations with SMU’s supercomputer power to reveal infrastructure deserts. Their study lays the groundwork for improving neighborhoods.
Be self-aware. Embrace unexpected opportunities. Lead with empathy. That’s just some of the great advice shared by alumni who took their SMU degrees and forged unexpected paths after leaving the Hilltop. One thing they all have in common is that they didn’t let fear get in their way. When they have a vision, Mustangs are unstoppable.
SMU’s Candace Walkington helps math come alive by connecting it to everyday experiences.
SMU undergraduate students Kelsey Hodge ’20, Nushah Rahman ’23 and Alexandra Savu ’23 walk us through their first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a short film by Alexa May ’23. They navigate a campus-wide shutdown, dramatic shifts in religious and social life, cries for racial justice and an uncertain future. Despite the challenges, their stories offer a collective voice of hope as we look forward to a new year on campus.
For their first two years at SMU, our students live on campus in 11 Residential Commons where they often learn as much about themselves as they do about one another.
NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Garrett Haake ’07 lives by the advice he learned from an SMU faculty mentor – stay packed, and don’t make any dinner plans that can’t be canceled.
Ana Rodriguez and the SMU Cox Latino Leadership Initiative are breaking down barriers and reversing the trend for Latino leaders – one promotion at a time.
There’s no doubt that the pandemic has changed how we live, learn, work and teach. We’ve been working hard across campus to welcome our new and continuing Mustangs this fall!
Kaitlyn Contreras, '20 was the first in her family to go to college. Find out how she found her place at SMU.
Father-and-son graduates Tom Buning ’20 and Chance Buning ’20 have great memories from their shared time as students at SMU.
They’ve put in the hard work, and now the Class of 2019 is ready for life’s next big adventure.
From bobsledding to the Oklahoma State Legislature, Mickey Dollens ’11 never quits.
SMU professors bring innovative tools and techniques to wherever the students are. And it only starts in the classroom.
SMU researchers hope their work will help cities make more equitable choices for residents of neighborhoods like Dallas' Vickery Meadow.
SMU first-year student Sarah Tersigni spoons a tiny piece of eggshell from the four eggs she's cracked into a glass bowl. She's making the filling for the lemon squares that she will serve later to fellow students in her residence hall.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything this semester, but couldn’t stop our 2020 grads. They pivoted to remote classes and continued to learn, create and achieve.
What happens on earth when you put an ocean where there wasn’t one before?
SMU alum Courtney Caldwell ’00 and her husband, Tye, are shaking up the salon industry with ShearShare, a mobile B2B platform shaped for the gig economy.
Hallie Hovey-Murray ’16 brings a fresh voice to autism advocacy.
