Southern Methodist University News Archives

Watching brothers Zion, 6, and Urion, 8, race about gathering Halloween treats, it's hard to imagine they suffer from a major illness.

A new alcohol prevention and training program is designed to give Southern Methodist University students a larger stake in the school's efforts to change its campus culture.

From the outside looking in, Mississippi appears to be evolving more slowly than other states in the area of race relations.

Senior executives aren't supposed to blab about their companies' innermost secrets to outsiders - but sometimes they do.

Construction workers found Meaghan Bosch's body on May 14, 2007 inside of a portable toilet in Hewitt.

When 30-year-old Linda Thomas took the bench Jan. 1, 1979, she was touted as the youngest judge in Dallas.

The paroled murderer and drug dealer who was found responsible this past summer for the 2007 overdose death of Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch will be sentenced by a federal judge this morning.

Fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands show that the Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa has become progressively drier over the past 50,000 years.

A model on the November cover of Teen Vogue is a 19-year-old who reveals in the magazine that she is pregnant.

Former state senator and ambassador to Sweden Miles "Teel" Bivins died Monday after a long illness.

Share + Oct 26, 2009 7:44 am US/Central 1 of 1 Former President George W. Bush speaks at the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan on May 28, 2009, in Benton Harbor, Mich.

A new traffic study commissioned by the Bush Foundation concluded that the "existing transportation system can adequately accommodate" the new presidential library - but University Park officials are withholding judgment for at least a couple of weeks.

So this is what you get when you have a governor who's appointed everyone to everything after nearly nine years in office: You name it, and Gov.

Saint Justa by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Credit: Meadows Museum. DALLAS, TX.- Based on new evidence about the systematic looting of art from Jewish owners in the course of hostilities in Europe during World War II, a pair of famous paintings on display at SMU's Meadows Museum created by Spanish master Bartolome Esteban Murillo of Seville's Patron ...

Thirty million years ago, before Ethiopia's mountainous highlands split and the Great Rift Valley formed, the tropical zone had warmer soil temperatures, higher rainfall and different atmospheric circulation patterns than it does today, according to new research of fossil soils found in the central African nation.

The Bush Foundation has recently asked University Park officials to rezone land so that it can proceed with plans for the presidential library.

All About Irving will look at what's happening in Irving and provide updates about city news, the arts, the Chamber, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, churches and the city's many clubs and organizations.

Texas lost a judicial giant in the passing of Judge William Wayne Justice, who stood tall for Justice.

Wordspace proudly co-sponsors this dynamic gathering of poets and fiction writers that takes place on the campus of Northwood University every fall.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's refusal to set a date for her resignation from the Senate to run for Governor indicates Hutchison is hedging her bets, and is receiving pressure to leave the Senate, analysts across the state tell 1200 WOAI news.

By DARREN BARBEE The billions of dollars in stimulus funds moving through the United States has so far made a minor pit stop in Texas: 1,100 jobs have been created or saved, and several Fort Worth-area companies have landed about $8 million in contracts, according new information from recovery.gov, a federal Web site that tracks stimulus ...

Beale is currently the Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College .

Geoffrey Orsak, dean of the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at SMU, kicks off TEDxSMU.

Tracey Williams is used to her friends' questions about food safety: The recent MBA graduate from Southern Methodist University also sports a master's degree in meat science from Texas A&M. Recent alarming reports about the safety of ground beef have made the questions even more timely.

Banks nationally, locally and around the state have fewer loans on their books now than a year ago, and despite an economy that many observers say will work its way out of recession by year-end, most bankers don't expect to see the trajectory of loan volume reverse itself anytime soon.

White working-class males have been among the biggest U.S. losers in this recession.

At the eleventh hour, Jesse Taferrau walked toward his fate, the electric chair.

U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will donate the money from the Nobel Peace Prize to charity.

A protege of Martha Graham and a mentor to Twyla Tharp, choreographer Paul Taylor has long spread the joys of modern dance.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is seeking millions for projects in North Texas and across the state in the final budget she'll work on before leaving Washington.

Called "redshirting," more and more parents are holding their pre-school children back a year with the hope of giving them a better chance to succeed with another year to develop.

When I was a young college student, my banker dad helped me get a student credit card and told me it was time that I started building my credit.

Robert Glick of Erskine College will perform a free organ concert today at First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster.

Quanterion adds two staff members UTICA - Quanterion Solutions Inc. has added two staff members.

Southern Methodist University Friday settled a lawsuit with a former condominium owner in a land dispute over the site of George W. Bush's presidential library, an attorney for the university said.

After hail and high winds swept through parts of Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, the area will see a day of sun before more storms are expected to arrive this weekend.

Belo Corp. said Thursday it will be preserving its television broadcasting history by donating its archives to Southern Methodist University 's DeGolyer Library .

Justice Clarence Thomas recalled the announcement of his appointment to the Supreme Court as being like a "near death experience" in a lecture at Southern Methodist University on Wednesday evening.