2016

A ceremony paying tribute to first responders who lost their lives on 9/11 will be held at SMU Sept. 9.

SMU ceremony pays tribute to the first responders who lost their lives on 9/11.

AARO - or orientation - welcomes first-year, transfer, and international students to SMU.

On Tuesday, October 25, SMU’s Disability Accommodations & Success Strategies (DASS) office is hosting “The Ability Exhibit” to build awareness about disabilities and the disability movement.

SMU art historian Adam Herring's award-winning book looks at the 1532 Spanish attack on the Inca Empire.

Abigail blogs about spending her fall with the Danish Justice and Human Rights program.

Students blog from the presidential campaign trail as part of a communications class.

SMU's Lindsay G. blogged from the Congo where she went this summer to study the country’s culture and language.

Grad student Madeline Jones blogs about being part of a team charting heat flow on the ocean floor north of Alaska.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Blogs by students and faculty about interesting people and places the world over.

Albert Niemi, dean of SMU's Cox School of Business, is quoted about the reason for Toyota moving its headquarters to North Texas in a story about the shortage of housing for low- and middle-income families

Allen Gwinn, senior technology director for Cox School of Business, talks about advertisers mining cell phone data to target you with tailored commercials while you are commuting.

Allen Gwinn of SMU’s Cox School of Business explains what to expect in the way of battery and data drain from playing Pokémon GO.

Allen Gwinn, senior technology director for SMU’s Cox School of Business, talks with KTXA's “Plugging into DFW” about advertisers mining data from you during your commute to target you with commercials.

SMU Cox Dean Albert W. Niemi, Jr., is stepping down at the end of this academic year.

Al Niemi, dean of SMU's Cox School of Business, and Bruce Bullock, an economist in the Cox School, both predicted Trump could be good for the economy.

SMU alum and dedicated Mustangs fan Kathryn Arata knits for luck at the SMU basketball games.

SMU alumna Kathryn Jones Malone '00 will be inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters later this month.

SMU alumna Hope Shimabuku is the first director of the new Dallas office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mustang Golf alumna Jenny Haglund ’16 earned her Ladies European Tour card after a successful season.

Feature story about Dr. John Harper, an SMU alumnus who combines his practice of medicine with a love for reading.

Alumnus and pro athlete Kelvin Beachum '11 '12 featured in an NFL video for his volunteer work.

SMU Alumna Lisa Walters is working for the educational nonprofit Global Citizen Year in Ecuador, where a deadly quake hit.

Michelle Merrill ’06, ’12 receives Solti Foundation Award for young conductors with promising careers.

SMU’s Jonathan Norton ’11 wins Theatre Critics’ Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright.

Meet the dynamic SMU alumni duo behind fun-and-food hot spots.

Celebrating the Cleveland Cavaliers making NBA history with SMU Alumnus Trent Redden ’06.

SMU Alum Nick Boulle ’11 finishes second in Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Alumnus Dr. William C. Roberts earns Lifetime Achievement Award from American College of Cardiology.

Angelia Mitakidis, manager of SMU’s Mediation Clinic, talks about how to reduce conflict in your life so you can lead a happier, more peaceful existence with co-workers, family and friends. She advises “respond don’t react” and take the time to be more rational in your responses.

Dr. David Haines of George Mason University has worked for the federal government's refugee resettlement program and served as a senior manager at the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.

Drawing on case studies from around the world, this SMU Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium addresses the ambivalent and at times hostile reception of refugees and its consequences in the everyday lives of the displaced.

SMU broke ground Friday on a new aquatics center for Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving teams.

The always joyful Arlene Manthey is being honored with a scholarship in her name.

Cambodian genocide survivor Arn Chorn Pond will speak at 7:15 p.m. Thursday in SMU's McCord Auditorium.

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services expands its support for art students and graduates of Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Texas Christian University (TCU) with the announcement of the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award.

SMU senior Austin Smotherman was named to the All-American Athletic Conference Team, the league announced Friday. Smotherman has been named to three All-Conference teams, twice in the American Athletic Conference and once in Conference USA.

Growing number of local and state officials speak out for SMU becoming part of Big 12.

SMU Head Coach Chad Morris hosted a clinic to teach families and friends of football fanatics the basics of the game – and to raise money for the families of recently slain Dallas police officers.

SMU head football coach Chad Morris, a native of Edgewood, Texas, returns to East Texas for a football camp and talks about the future of football at SMU.

Coaching for Literacy (CFL) partners with Head Men's Basketball Coach Larry Brown and the SMU Mustangs for a second consecutive year.

President Turner and SMU's AD say the Mustangs are interested in joining the Big 12 Athletic Conference.

SMU Athletics reveals future facilities projects, including a new Indoor Performance Center and a new soccer stadium.

SMU today announced its highly-anticipated 2016 football schedule, a slate that is highlighted by six games on the SMU campus, including a Ford Stadium match-up with rival TCU.

The SMU Mustangs football program announces the signing of 25 student-athletes who will join the team in 2016.

The SMU Mustangs Football Team is beginning preparations for the fall season.

SMU teammates Baxter and Buchanan win the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball golf championship.

SMU and SMU Athletics announce the 2016 class of the SMU Athletics Hall of Fame.

SMU held it's annual Football Kick-Off Luncheon as it readies for the season opener against North Texas on Sept. 3.

SMU Hall of Fame Basketball Coach Larry Brown talks basketball with ESPN’s Face to Face program.

SMU alumna Lovisa Lindh wins bronze in the 800-meter track at European Athletics Championships.

SMU senior Lucija Cvitanovic was named the American Athletic Conference Championship Most Outstanding Field Performer, in light of her heptathlon victory and runner-up honor in the javelin during the 2016 AAC Championships at the UCF Soccer and Track Complex. As a whole, the SMU track and field team had seven different medalists in eight different events.

SMU Men's Basketball rallied to remain undefeated, beating Cincinnati 59-57 Thursday night.

SMU Men's B'ball makes history by reaching AP Top 10 for first time since 1985.

No. 10 SMU remains unbeaten after routing East Carolina 79-55 on Wednesday.

A feature story on SMU Men's Basketball Coach Larry Brown, Moody Coliseum, and the enthusiastic fans.

The Mustangs remained undefeated with a 77-73 victory over feisty Houston on Tuesday night.

The SMU Mustangs football program announces the signing of 25 student-athletes.

SMU is installing new turf at Ford Stadium. It should be read by the start of football season on Sept. 17, when the Mustangs play the Liberty University Flames.

Travis Mays, an experienced coach and former professional player, is the new Head Women’s Basketball Coach at SMU.

A statement from the SMU Volleyball program.

SMU alumna and swimmer Nina Rangelova will be representing Bulgaria in the Summer 2016 Olympics. SMU Head Women's Swimming Coach Steve Collins is headed to his sixth Olympic Games following his appointment to the Bulgarian staff. Collins also coached the team in 2012 and was on the Slovakian staff in 2008, 2004, 2000 and 1996.

Women’s Swimming and Diving Team repeats as champions of the American Athletic Conference.

Tim Jankovich, who has spent the last four seasons as associate head coach, is the new head coach of SMU Men's Basketball.

SMU Football will honor Dallas-area first-responders at its nationally-televised Friday, Sept. 23, game against TCU, and will be wearing a specially-created Mustang helmet decal that features the Dallas skyline to show its support for the groups.

New Women's Basketball Coach Travis Mays prepares for his first season at SMU.

For the second straight game, the SMU women's soccer team dominated from start to finish, as the Mustangs rolled to a 9-0 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Sunday night at Westcott Field.

A $2.5 million contribution from AT&T will endow the AT&T Center for Virtualization and fund its research to support the fast, reliable cloud-based telecommunications necessary for global connectivity.

Seventeen local and regional high school students will be at SMU Monday, Feb. 15, to see which two can best echo the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson.

A lecture by Barbara Dancyier on attempting to represent the self in some way.

For 16 years, Voice Professor Barbara Hill Moore has been traveling to South Africa to recruit students.

The SMU Men's and Women's Basketball teams open their seasons Friday, Nov. 11, in Moody Coliseum.

Benjamin Munson, who is graduating in May with a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance, has been named the winner of the Johnny and Frances Williams Prize in Performing Arts from Alpha Chi, the national college honor society.

Ben Voth, director of Debate at SMU and associate professor of communications, analyzes President Obama’s speech at the memorial service for five slain police officers. Voth gave Obama an A+ for the first half of the speech and a C for the latter half, saying he had strayed from the purpose of the gathering.

Ben Voth, director of Debate and associate professor of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs at SMU, talks about the race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Ben Voth, director of debate at SMU, talks about how the candidates performed in the Jan. 17 Democratic debate, saying in part “I think there’s a missing center in American politics right now and I think Bernie’s tapping into it.”

Associate Communications Professor Ben Voth, director of SMU’s Debate Program and an advisor to the Bush Institute, analyzes how the GOP contenders for president did at the Jan. 28, 2016, debate without Donald Trump there.

Bernard Weinstein, an economist at smu, talks about Donald Trump's plan to impose a special 10 percent tax on profits U.S. firms hold overseas, and reduce the U.S. tax on future overseas earnings from 35 percent to 15 percent to encourage compliance.

SMU economist Bernard Weinstein and Bruce Bullock, director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, talk about the effect plunging oil prices are having on the cost of gasoline.

Bernard Weinstein, an economist and associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, says new federal methane regulations will do little or nothing to affect the environment.

Economist Bernard Weinstein, associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, says the fracking boom is hitting hard times as the price of oil has plummeted from $100 per barrel to about $30 per barrel. It has mean the loss of about 100,000 jobs in the U.S., some 30-40 percent of them in Texas, he said.

Economist Bernard Weinstein, associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, talks about the announcement of a massive oil potential announced in West Texas shale formation.

Economist Bernard Weinstein, associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, says Britain’s vote to leave the European Union is not a cause for panic at the moment.

Economist Bernard Weinstein, associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute, talks about the effect the drop in gasoline prices is having on highway funding.

Bernard Weinstein, economist and associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute , talks about the current state of gasoline prices.

An opinion on fracking by Bernard Weinstein, an economist, associate director of SMU's Maguire Energy Institute and an adjunct professor of business economics in SMU's Cox School of Business.

Annual Big iDeas contest when students pitch their ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win $1000 to build a prototype or pilot a program over the next three months.

Sophomores Brandon Cohanim and Francois Reihani soon will open a new Dallas restaurant, Pōk the Raw Bar, bringing a new concept in healthy dining to Dallas.

SMU hosts Black Excellence in Higher Education Conference and Youth Summit.

SMU is celebrating Black History Month during February with a variety of events and presentations.

New members have been elected to SMU’s Board of Trustees.

Enjoy the new year with books from SMU faculty, staff, alumni, libraries and museum.