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Research Spotlight As devices from computers to cell phones become smaller and more complex, managing the increasingly heavy workload for microprocessors becomes a more urgent issue. Associate Professor Mitch Thornton, who teaches courses in both computer science and electrical engineering in SMU's School of Engineering, is helping to pioneer verification methods for electronic devices that can debug potential failures before they occur. Read more in the SMU Research magazine. 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 – and with your clicks, they may win $20,000 in cash, too. Learn more and visit the teams' YouTube page to see their entries. Calendar highlights "Sculptures in Sound" – The Meadows Symphony Orchestra performs works by Lutoslawski and Brucker at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 and 3 p.m. Nov. 19 in Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center. For tickets, contact the Meadows Box Office, 8-2787 (8-ARTS). Raised voices – The Meadows Chorale performs at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center. For tickets, contact the Meadows Box Office, 8-2787 (8-ARTS). Picks of destiny – The Meadows Guitar Ensemble performs at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in Caruth Auditorium, Owen Arts Center. For tickets, contact the Meadows Box Office, 8-2787 (8-ARTS). Health on wheels – SMU's Human Resources Department brings the Mobile Mammogram Unit to Bishop Boulevard (in front of the SMU Health Center), 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 28. For more information, contact Olivia Holguin. Love hurts – The Meadows Opera Theatre presents Peter Brook's iconoclastic 1983 staging of Georges Bizet's classic La Tragedie de Carmen at 8 p.m. Nov. 28-29 in the Margo Jones Theatre, Owen Arts Center. Performances are in French with English supertitles. For tickets, contact the Meadows Box Office, 8-2787 (8-ARTS). Brown Bag rescheduled – The Clements Center for Southwest Studies announces a new date for a lecture by the University of New Mexico's Chris Wilson. Wilson will discuss "The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Southwest Urbanism" at noon Nov. 29 in the Texana Room, DeGolyer Library. Bring your lunch. Visit the SMU calendar for more upcoming events. To learn how to submit events, click here.

Provost candidate meetings set

• Three finalists for the position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs will visit the campus for interviews and meetings this month. All faculty/staff meetings will be held 3:15-4:15 p.m. in the Crum Auditorium, Collins Executive Education Center, followed by a reception in the Bobby B. Lyle Executive Lounge on the Collins Center second floor. The search committee has set the following dates and times for candidates to meet the SMU community. Watch the SMU Forum over the next two weeks for more updates.

November 17 – Thomas W. Peterson, dean of the College of Engineering, University of Arizona
November 21 – Candidate name to be announced
November 28 – Candidate name to be announced

CONSTRUCTION NOTE –  As part of preconstruction work on the new SMU Basketball Center, the University will begin teardown of the Haggar Tennis Stadium at 3005 East Binkley Avenue on Monday, November 20. The men's and women's tennis teams will practice at the SMU Boulevard courts. Watch for a campuswide e-mail with complete information.

• A student consulting project developed in the Meadows Division of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs has resulted in a partnership with CCPA, Dance, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem to help revitalize the DTH's touring company. DTH cofounder Arthur Mitchell visited campus to cement the partnership – and teach a master class to SMU dance students. Read more.

• SMU athletes achieved a 97 percent graduation success rate between 1990 and 2000, according to data released last week by the NCAA. Ten of SMU's 15 athletic programs scored a perfect 100 percent in Graduation Success Rates (GSR), and all 15 were equal to or better than the national average. Read more.

• The SMU holiday card is here! Get yours by November 21 – learn more and order online. Read more.

Ready for the eating season? The December 7 issue of the SMU Forum will feature holiday recipes from all over campus, and the world. Make sure your favorite is among them! We're looking for side dishes, main courses, desserts, sweets, food gifts, game-day snacks, kosher and ethnic treats, vegetarian recipes...you name it. Send recipes and questions to Kathleen Tibbetts, 8-7672.

• Information Technology Services has chosen the 24 finalists that most memorably portrayed common computing security issues in its 2006 Security Awareness Poster Contest. Help choose the 12 that will appear in the University's 2007 Security Awareness wall calendar – vote online until midnight November 19.

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•The SMU football team says farewell to 20 senior players this weekend in Ford Stadium. The upperclassmen will be honored during the SMU-Tulsa halftime November 18, the last home game date of the season. Read more.

For the Record

David Weber, History, has been awarded the 2006 John Edwin Fagg Prize by the American Historical Association for his book Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. The annual award is given to the best publication on the history of Spain, Portugal, or Latin America.

Linda Kao ('78), M.B.A. Global Programs, was profiled in The Dallas Morning News Sunday, November 12.