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December 31, 2007
For the sixth year in a row, students at Southwestern University have ranked above students at peer institutions – and significantly above the national average – when it comes to being engaged in their academic endeavors.
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December 31, 2007
Pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor and chair of the Department of Music at Southwestern University, will perform in a chamber music concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City Dec. 8.
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December 31, 2007
This new center will help companies that have commercially viable biotechnology products take them to the next step.
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November 30, 2007
The fund provides monetary awards for the continuing education and development of full-time faculty members of United Methodist colleges and universities in Texas.
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November 30, 2007
The medals recognize outstanding contributions to the university for either service or philanthropy.
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November 30, 2007
Southwestern University seniors Lauren Arrowood, Ben Hoffman and Eric Sterner are getting a unique opportunity this year – the chance to conduct a real study for NASA
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November 30, 2007
Is it possible to write and produce a play in 24 hours? Can solar heat be used to operate a refrigerator?
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October 31, 2007
As a graduate student working on her doctorate in chinese literature, Patricia Schiaffini made several trips to the Tibetan-populated areas of China to learn more about Tibetan authors.
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October 31, 2007
$150,000 Presidential Leadership Grant is the second Southwestern has received from the Mellon Foundation
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October 31, 2007
If you like the gentle flow and surprising insights of American poets such as Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, you may well enjoy “Return to Calm,” a new volume of work by French writer Jacques Réda.
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October 31, 2007
Southwestern University has been named an Alliance Partner with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).
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October 31, 2007
Southwestern has joined more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide that are participating in a new initiative designed to aid students and their families in their college search.
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September 30, 2007
Southwestern University will host its inaugural Pirate Golf Classic at the Wildcat Golf Club in Houston on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. The tournament begins with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. on the Highlands course.
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September 30, 2007
Music enthusiasts will soon have the opportunity to hear Mendelssohn’s “St. Paul Oratorio” performed as the composer originally intended.
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September 30, 2007
Frank Guziec, holder of the Dishman Chair in Science, and his wife, Lynn, an assistant professor of an assistant professor of chemistry, are collaborating with Brian Hasinoff, a professor of pharmacy at the University of Manitoba, on new drugs that would have the effectiveness of Doxorubicin without the toxicity.
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September 30, 2007
Author Amy Tan will speak at Southwestern University on Tuesday, Oct. 23, as part of the annual Writer’s Voice series sponsored by the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center. “An Evening with Amy Tan” will begin at 8 p.m. in the Lois Perkins Chapel.
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September 30, 2007
Elizabeth Green Musselman, associate professor of history, recently launched a podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology.
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September 30, 2007
A Southwestern University professor and student have received a $2,500 grant from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) that will be used to develop a theatre project focusing on disability issues.
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August 31, 2007
The 2008 edition of The Best 366 Colleges, published by the Princeton Review, ranked Southwestern # #7 in the country for Best Career/Job Placement Services.
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August 31, 2007
The French Program at Southwestern University has received an $1,800 grant that will enable it to host a communitywide French Film Festival.
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August 31, 2007
Southwestern University this week is welcoming members of the Class of 2011 – a class that may be the largest in the university’s history.
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August 31, 2007
September 2007 marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of To Survive and Excel: The Story of Southwestern University 1840-2000. University Historian William B. Jones discusses some of the response he has received since the book was published.
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July 31, 2007
More than 200 of the country’s top high school juniors and seniors will be at Southwestern University July 15-22 to participate in the Texas Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session (LDZ) sponsored by the National Hispanic Institute.
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July 31, 2007
A Southwestern University theatre professor and six students will travel to Bulgaria this summer to participate in a unique theater-training program called the Rhodopi International Theater Collective (R.I.T.C.).
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July 31, 2007
Both Lady Bird Johnson, who died today (July 11), and Lyndon Baines Johnson had extensive connections to Southwestern University.
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June 30, 2007
Now in its 35th year, Conductors’ Institute gives choral conductors professional instruction in the great choral/orchestral works of classical music.
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June 30, 2007
Southwestern University has received a four-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue its Upward Bound program.
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June 30, 2007
William Carrington Finch, who served as the 11th president of Southwestern University, died June 13 in Nashville, Tenn. He was 98.
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June 30, 2007
Anna Frankel, a junior biology student at Southwestern University, interns with Sea Turtle Inc. on South Padre Island.
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May 31, 2007
The Southwestern lacrosse team won its third straight conference championship last month. The victory earned the team a spot in the National Championship Tournament that will be held in Frisco, Texas, beginning May 15. Southwestern is going into the tournament ranked 12th in the nation in the B division.
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May 31, 2007
What’s the most “viewed” page on the Southwestern University Web site? It’s a set of teaching resources developed by Aaron Prevots, an assistant professor of French.
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April 30, 2007
Gwen Sherman, who serves as director of finance and administration for the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will give the 2007 commencement address at Southwestern University.
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April 30, 2007
Southwestern will formally commit to a more sustainable, or “green” way of doing things on April 19 when University President Jake B. Schrum adds Southwestern to a growing list of colleges and universities around the world that have signed a treaty known as the Talloires (“Tal-wahr”) Declaration.
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April 30, 2007
The most recognizable landmark on the Southwestern University campus – and one of the most historic historic buildings in Georgetown and Williamson County – will get a much-needed renovation thanks to a $6 million gift pledge from the Cullen Trust for Higher Education.
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April 30, 2007
Agreement will make it easier for honors students from ACC to transfer to the university
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April 30, 2007
Can the secret recipe for Coca-Cola be cracked? Is it possible to design a low-cost solar water heater? These are just some of the topics that students at Southwestern University have been researching the past year. Their research will be on display April 18 as the university sponsors its 8th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Symposium.
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March 31, 2007
The research of a Southwestern University professor will be featured on the national PBS program “NOVA” April 3.
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March 31, 2007
Southwestern University has signed a partnership agreement with College Forward that will enable the organization to expand its services to Williamson County.
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February 28, 2007
James Baker III, the former secretary of state who most recently served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will give the 2007 Shilling Lecture at Southwestern University.
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Southwestern Recognizes Downtown Georgetown Association For Helping Make Georgetown a ‘College Town’February 28, 2007College Town Award is renamed this year in honor of Martha Diaz Hurtado
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February 28, 2007
Encouraging more women to enter the field of computer science is among the goals of a project being led by Barbara Boucher Owens, an associate professor of computer science at Southwestern.
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February 28, 2007
Animals. Sometimes we consider them our best friends and other times we experiment on them, mass produce them for food, use them for entertainment, and encroach on their habitats.
This “dualism” will be the topic of the 29th Brown Symposium to be held at Southwestern University March 5-6. The symposium is titled “Who Do We Think We Are?!” -
January 31, 2007
A $2 million anonymous pledge received this month will enable Southwestern University to claim $3 million in challenge grants and move forward with construction of an $11 million Center for Lifelong Learning.
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January 31, 2007
Southwestern University has signed a partnership agreement with Dillard University that will enable the two to pursue collaborative initiatives in several areas, including institutional management, diversity education and other academic efforts.
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January 31, 2007
Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar at Southwestern University, has been selected to receive the 2007 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association.
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January 31, 2007
A community dinner and a screening of a Spike Lee film about Hurricane Katrina are among the events Southwestern University will host in conjunction with Martin Luther King Day this year.
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January 31, 2007
Results from a recent national survey show that students at Southwestern University rank above students at peer institutions - and significantly above the national average - when it
comes to being engaged in their academic endeavors.
