SMU was awarded the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, a prestigious national designation ...

An international team of researchers led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacob s has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents. More than 260 ...

DALLAS (SMU) – SMU has achieved Carnegie Research One (R1) classification, joining the ranks of the nation’s top public and private research institutions. The designation, awarded by the Carnegie ...

DALLAS (SMU) – SMU’s unique connections to the Nuremberg Trials – where Nazi leaders were prosecuted for World War II atrocities, setting the foundation for modern international and human rights law – ...

DALLAS (SMU) – Rachel Davis Mersey will join SMU as executive vice president and provost on June 1. She will oversee University research and overall academic quality, including admissions, faculty ...

SMU cultural historian Alexis McCrossen’s forthcoming book, Time’s Touchstone: The New Year in American Life, reveals what New Year’s has meant to Americans since George Washington was president. Here ...

In a rare collaboration with geneticists and archaeologists, a federally recognized tribe in the United States has utilized ancient DNA to establish a genetic link to an important ancestral heritage ...

An SMU graduate student has developed a miniature pH sensor that can tell when food has spoiled in real time. DALLAS (SMU) – Forget that expiration date on your salmon or yogurt. A graduate student at ...

Following an extensive national search, the SMU Board of Trustees named Jay Hartzell the 11th SMU president, effective June 1, 2025. DALLAS (SMU) – The SMU Board of Trustees unanimously voted Tuesday ...

SMU Dedman School of Law alumni achieved a first-time bar passage rate of 98.52% on the July 2025 Texas Bar Exam, ranking the school first in the state among all law schools and marking the fourth ...

DALLAS (SMU) – SMU senior Joshua Ange is the first SMU student to receive a Churchill Scholarship to spend one year conducting research with a scientist at Cambridge University, in Cambridge, England.

Researchers combined street-level investigations with SMU’s supercomputer power to reveal infrastructure deserts. Their study lays the groundwork for improving neighborhoods. Professor Barbara Minsker ...