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Research Spotlight People who look for the latest and best in health law commentary look to SMU Law Professor Tom Mayo. HealthLawProf Blog, which Mayo co-edited until this year, was ranked among the 25 most popular law blogs in January 2006 by fellow law blog Opinio Juris, based on traffic to the site. Mayo now focuses on his personal journal, HealthLawBlog. What are you working on? Send news of your research, writings, or conference presentations to the SMU Forum. Tune in SMU advertising students took the grand prize in Chipotle Mexican Grill's "30 Seconds of Fame" competition. Watch the winning entry, "The Wall," and visit the teams' YouTube page to see other entries. Calendar highlights Now beginning its third year, the SMU-in-Taos Cultural Institute has proven so popular that two weekends are scheduled for 2007 – July 12-15 and July 19-22. Learn more and register online. Judaica Lecture Series – Associate Professor of Religious Studies Mark Chancey presents "Jewish Coins and Jewish Identity in an Age of Empire: Jewish Coinage in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras" at 2 p.m. Nov. 12 in Bridwell Library. Artistic legacy – Karole Vail will speak on the life and legacy of her grandmother, collector and arts patron Peggy Guggenheim, at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Meadows Museum. Fight the flu – The SMU Health Center offers its last scheduled flu shot clinic 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Hughes-Trigg Crossing. Shots are $20 each, payable by cash or check. So alive, this city! – The University of New Mexico's Chris Wilson discusses "The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Southwest Urbanism" at noon Nov. 15 in the Texana Room, DeGolyer Library. Bring your lunch. Beating depression – The SMU Health Center offers free screening and confidential advice for students, faculty, and staff as part of Depression Screening Day, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 16 in the second-floor conference room, Memorial Health Center. Creature feature – Meadows School of the Arts presents a free performance of Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18 in Caruth Auditorium. Contact the Meadows Ticket Office at 8-2787. Visit the SMU calendar for more upcoming events. To learn how to submit events, click here.

Provost finalists to visit campus

• Three finalists for the position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs will visit the campus for interviews and meetings November 16-27, the search committee has announced. Each candidate will visit for two days to meet with President Turner and faculty, vice presidents, deans, staff, students, and trustees.

The schedule of meetings and a biography of each candidate will be provided in advance of each visit through campus e-mail and other notifications. The schedules are being finalized at this time; watch e-mail next week for information on the first candidate.

• History Instructor Rick Halperin, now in his third term as chair of Amnesty International North America, will direct SMU's four-year pilot program in human rights education, funded by a grant from the Embrey Family Foundation. The $2.2 million gift will also help improve facilities for SMU's basketball and soccer teams.

More on the Embrey gift
Read about it from Dallas Morning News columnist Robert Miller

• CNN reporter Anderson Cooper will deliver the Tate Distinguished Lecture at 8 p.m. November 14 in McFarlin Auditorium. Read more.

• La Discreta Enamorada (In Love But Discreet) debuts in English November 15 as the Meadows Theatre Division's first dual-language production, featuring costumes inspired by legendary Spanish designer Balenciaga. Theatre Chair Cecil O'Neal discusses the challenges and rewards of the Main Stage project. Read more.

• The SMU Staff Association leads an initiative to give University staff a voice in the administration. SMUSA President Tiffany Jenson and Vice President for Business and Finance Dana Gibson discuss the new initiative. Read more.

• Ivor van Heerden, the hurricane and environmental expert who in 2001 predicted New Orleans' destruction by a major storm, will visit SMU November 15. Read more.

Hot links

• SMU experts tracked local and national races to provide insight and commentary on Tuesday's elections to ABC News, The Associated Press, The London Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and others. Read more.

• The men's soccer team has been seeded No. 3 in the NCAA Championship Tournament, picking up several other postseason honors along the way. The team plays at home November 15 on Westcott Field. Read more.

For the Record

Dean William Lawrence, Theology, wrote an op-ed on the confluence of politics and religion that appeared in The Dallas Morning News Saturday, November 4.

Carol Leone, Piano, and Catharine Lysinger, Piano Preparatory, received second prize in the Piano Duet Category of the Vietri sul Mare International Piano Competition, held in Italy in September. Leone and Lysinger, who also performed together this summer in Vienna and Lucerne, will play a concert November 17 in the Dallas Museum of Art as part of the DMA's Late Nights series.

Judy Henneberger, Chaplain's Office, has been named a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Dallas' Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies (IRPS). She accepted the award at a November 4 alumni reunion.

Anthony Cortese, Sociology, delivered the keynote address, "Faces Seen, Hearts Unheard: Mexican Immigration to the United States," at the University of Maine-Orono’s Latino Heritage Celebration. He also spoke to the Director of Public Safety and other faculty, staff, and student groups on the relationship between hate speech and hate crime.