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16 unusual facts about Southern Methodist University


2010–11 NCAA football bowl games

As a result, the 2010 and 2011 editions of the game were moved to Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the campus of Southern Methodist University in the Dallas enclave of University Park.

Aart de Geus

De Geus graduated with a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (1978) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of technology), EPFL, Switzerland followed by a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA.

Carolyn Sargent

From 1980-85 Sargent was an Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.

Donald Holmquest

He attended Roger Q. Mills Elementary School and is a 1957 graduate of W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas; he received a bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1962 and doctorates in Medicine and Physiology from Baylor University in 1967 and 1968, respectively.

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Bonnie Wheeler is the Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.

Gillian Conoley

Conoley holds a BA in Journalism from Southern Methodist University and an MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jack Elliott Myers

After obtaining his Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry Writing, Jack moved his family to Dallas, Texas, in 1975 when Jack was hired as an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Methodist University.

Joe R. Greenhill

He received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Southern Methodist University in 1977.

Julius Brewster Cotton

Julius Brewster began his professional dance career in Ohio with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company after graduating from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 2000.

Kurt Heinrich Wolff

With the help of a nephew in 1939, Wolff got a job as an assistant professor of sociology at the Southern Methodist University (Texas).

Laurence Perrine

Laurence Perrine (1915–1995) was a Southern Methodist University professor whose literature textbooks became standard works nationwide.

Project Transformation

Several months later, they launched Project Transformation with financial and in-kind support from the annual conference and key partners, such as Texas Methodist Foundation, Southern Methodist University, and Perkins School of Theology.

Rhonda Rompola

Rhonda Rompola is the head women's basketball coach at SMU.

Texas Almanac

In 2006, Southern Methodist University issued a limited edition reprint of the 1936 Texas Almanac, which commemorated the centennial of Texas' independence.

Thomas Sleeper

He received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Texas, and subsequently received his Master of Music at Southern Methodist University, where he studied under Daryl F. Rauscher of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and James Rives-Jones.

William C. Roberts

In 1954, Roberts graduated early from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in the arts, having been accepted to Emory University's School of Medicine.


2008 Houston Cougars football team

The game was originally scheduled to be played at Robertson Stadium in Houston, but due to Hurricane Ike, the game was played at SMU's Ford Stadium.

2011 Armed Forces Bowl

The 2011 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, the ninth edition of the game was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 30, 2011 at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the campus of SMU in University Park, Texas as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.

Artemis Pebdani

She received her BFA in theatre from Southern Methodist University and is also an alum of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California.

Carole Terry

Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (organ with Robert T. Anderson, harpsichord with Larry Palmer), Eastman School of Music (organ with David Craighead), and Stanford University, where she obtained in 1977 a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music performance practice.

Charles Wesley junior

A handful of his compositions are still played, and a keyboard sonata in F minor was recently discovered and received its first performance on 1 February 2007 at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, as part of Methodist celebration of a year that is both the 300th anniversary of Charles Wesley's birth and the 250th anniversary of Charles Wesley junior's.

Curtis Doebbler

a Degree of Masters of Law (LL.M./meesterstitel) from Radboud University Nijmegen (previously known as Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen or Nijmegen Universiteit), Nijmegen, NL; a J.D. from New York Law School, New York City, New York, USA (where he studied under Professors Myres MacDougal and Lung-Chu Chen); and Bachelors of Arts in English literature and of Fine Arts in Journalism from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Fleeting expletive

On November 19, 2011, during a live taping of ESPN's College GameDay at the University of Houston, College football analyst Lee Corso said, "Ah, fuck it" before he put on the headwear of Shasta, the University of Houston Cougars' mascot, demonstrating his prediction that the Cougars would beat the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University.

Gail Cronauer

Gail also has taught acting at Southern Methodist University, Webster College, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Illinois State University, and she currently teaches at Collin College, in the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area in the state of Texas.

Gela Bezhuashvili

In 1997 obtained Master of Law degree, LL.M-International and Comparative Law, Southern Methodist University (SMU) School of Law, Dallas, United States.

Henry Andrade

Andrade ran collegiately at Southern Methodist University on a football scholarship where, as Wide Receiver, he was a teammate of Eric Dickerson on their 1981 and 1982 National Championship football teams.

James Cronin

After his father had obtained his doctorate the family first moved to Alabama, and later in 1939 to Dallas, Texas, where his father became a professor of Latin and Greek at Southern Methodist University.

Joaquín Achúcarro

Since the mid-1980s, he has been a professor at the Meadows School of the Arts of the Southern Methodist University in Texas, United States.

Kellie Waymire

She attended Southern Methodist University (where she won the Greer Garson Award), graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, and later earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1993.

Knight Commission

As of 2011, the commission's co-chairs are William English Kirwan, chancellor, University System of Maryland and R. Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University and founding chairman of the NCAA Certification Committee, which itself came about largely through the work of the Knight Commission.

Lloyd Lozes Goff

His works are also on display at the Federal Buildings in Cooper, Texas, and Hollis, Oklahoma, as well as the U.S. Treasury, New York City Municipal Building, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the U.S. Customs House in New York City, and the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

Lyda Hill

Previously, she served on the Boards of the American Heart Association (as Chairman of the Dallas & Texas Chapters), the Arts Magnet High School, the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce (from 1985 to 1990), the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management, the President's Advisory Board for Private Sector Initiatives (from 1986 to 1989), the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and the Women's Texas Golf Association (as President).

Martina Moravcová

She is one of Slovakia's greatest female athletes, although she has lived in Dallas, TX, USA since she started attending Southern Methodist University in the mid-1990s.

Master of Sacred Music

These programs are located at the Boston University School of Theology, College of Jewish Music's H.L. Miller Cantorial School, Duquesne University, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music, Emory University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Notre Dame and Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music.

Mohsen Sazegara

As of 2010, he was a visiting fellow at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Rice–SMU football rivalry

The Rice–SMU football rivalry was an American college football rivalry between the Rice University Owls and Southern Methodist University Mustangs.

Shlomo Weber

--NO link to 'Affiliating university' or to some pop group--> with the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, U.S. and has the status of a U.S. Permanent Resident with a Canadian nationality.

Southern Ivy

This caused Branscomb to call a meeting with the presidents of other Southern private universities in the late 1950s — Southern Methodist University (SMU), Rice University, Duke University, and Tulane University — where Branscomb suggested they try to establish a new sports conference where small, academically inclined private schools could compete.

The House Theatre of Chicago

The House was founded in 2001 by a group of friends from the British American Drama Academy and Southern Methodist University with the mission of exploring the ideas of Community and Storytelling in order to create a unique theatrical experience for audience members.

Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr.

Prior to joining the IIT administration, he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Arizona, the University of Florida and Southern Methodist University.

Timmy Chang

On May 19, 2012, Southern Methodist University head football coach June Jones, who coached Chang at Hawai'i, announced Chang would join his staff as graduate assistant.

Wick Allison

He attended the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, where he developed his business plan for D Magazine before dropping out.

William Andrew Irwin

William Andrew Irwin (1884-1967) was Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago and Southern Methodist University, where his papers can be found today.