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With New Leadership, SMU Pom Squad Gets Bigger and Better

SMU fans shouldn’t be confusing the cheer and pom squads anymore.

Happenings on the Hill

“Vermeer of Delft is the pinnacle of painting … in the drama of his work, the pictorial problem disappears,” Salvador Dalí once said.

Pandemic Prompted an SMU Alum to Make Her First Movie

Mollie Mulvey was set to graduate from SMU in spring 2020 before moving to Chicago to study with the Second City comedy troupe and start making films.

Happenings on the Hill

A $25,000 one-year grant from the Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust will cover all Meadows Museum admission fees for North Texas students 18 years and younger including chaperones for K-12 school groups.

Happenings on the Hill

Though origami is traditionally used for teaching geometry or helping improve thinking skills, SMU paleontology student Travis Nolan uses it to envision complete structures of fossils he has excavated.
Voices

This and That Hospitality Ponies Up for SMU Athletics

SMU fans have something new to look forward to while they’re Boulevarding.

Studio Helps Aspiring Musicians, Instructors Thrive

For Rodman Steele, music is in his DNA.

Happenings on the Hill

It’s an age-old question: Are differences between what men and women like decided by nature or nurture?
Events

Dr. Michael J. Sorrell Named 2022 J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award Recipient

SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility 2022 J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award Luncheon on Tuesday, April 12 honored Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College.

SMU Mustang Band Performs At Normandy D-Day Ceremonies

Fifty-nine members of SMU’s Mustang Band and director Tommy Tucker performed at the international D-Day ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France.

What Had You Accomplished at 19?

Haley Taylor Schlitz, an author, law school grad, prepares for bar exam

Happenings on the Hill

Researchers at SMU and Northwestern University are working on Synthetic Wavelength Holography, a technology that uses cameras to record high-resolution images and holograms of objects beyond standard lines of sight.

Isner Brings Star Power to Inaugural Pro Tournament at SMU

HP resident fills multiple roles by serving as player and ambassador at Dallas Open
Tributes

SMU Community, Colleagues Remember Slain Journalist

Brent Renaud, known as a kind, compassionate mentor, killed in Ukraine. Renaud's family is working to establish the Brent Renaud Journalism Foundation.

‘Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down!’

It’s an all-too-common situation in a short-tempered, COVID-weary world.

Auction Offers Glimpse of Edwin L. Cox’s Taste in Art, Antiques

Many will remember the late Edwin L. Cox, who died last year at 99, for the oilman’s contributions to the petroleum industry and SMU, where the business school bears his name.

Happenings on the Hill

Are you a hungry SMU student, faculty member, or employee?

A Salad Bowl Symphony at SMU?

Bridwell Library to Host “A Festival of Form: John Cage & the Infinite Human” from March 7-9.

From SMU to Sidley

Preston Hollow residents Angela Zambrano and Scott Parel have gone from attending law school at SMU together, where they graduated in 1997, to managing partners at global law firm Sidley Austin’s Dallas office.

Dallas Open Brings Pro Tennis to the Park Cities

Isner, SMU to host as ATP tour begins late winter North American swing.
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