- Cheyenne, South Africa (Spring 2007). Cheyenne is a junior from Dallas majoring in public policy, with a minor in economics and human rights. She traveled with a group of 15 students, faculty and community members on a trip August 2-12 to South Africa, led by SMU Human Rights Program director Rick Halperin. The trip focused on the events and landmarks of apartheid, the system of racial segregation enforced there by the white-controlled government from 1948 to 1989.
- Ethiopia Research Team (Winter 2007-08) A team of researchers lead by Paleobotanist Bonnie Jacobs and Sedimentologist Neil Tabor, both of SMU, returned to northwestern Ethiopia in late December 2007 to collect additional plant fossils and gain a more thorough understanding of their geological context.
- Heather, SMU-in-Cairo. (Fall 2008) Heather is a junior from Greenville, Texas who is a triple major in history, art history and medieval studies in Dedman College. She is participating this fall in SMU-in-Cairo.
- Taplin, South Africa (Summer 2006). Researching environmental issues.
