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The Best Ways to Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month Besides Wearing Pink

SMU BubbleLife iReporter 10/16 12:00P Riley Heruska

As most of you already know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's a time when organizations and individuals throughout the country come together to promote education, provide...

Meet the 2018 Dallas 100, the fastest-growing private companies in DFW

Dallas Business Journal 10/14 2:08P Staff report

Once again, the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business is recognizing the 100 fastest-growing private companies in North Texas in the 28th year of the Dallas 100 Entrepreneur Awards. To...

NBC DFW Employees Host Journalism Students for 2018 Mentor Day

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 10/13 6:12P

Journalism students from UNT, SMU, TCU and UTA all visited the NBC 5 studios on Saturday. The students got to tour the station, tape a mock newscast and even visit with several NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 employees. The event is sponsored by the Black...

Justin Burns: Golden Art Demo Oct. 23 for Irving Art Association

Art News DFW 10/13 2:12A webmaster

Tuesday, October 23rd from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m is the monthly Members’ meeting of the Irving Art Association. Our guest artist will be JUSTIN BURNS, a Golden Paints Working Artist. Justin will present a...

ICYMI Weekend News Digest: Saturday, Oct. 13

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 10/12 6:33P

To help make sure you stay informed on the most shared and talked about stories across North Texas, each Saturday and Sunday we'll revisit 5 stories from the previous week and capsulize them in this digest with the most recent updates. In our 5+5...

Concert Explores Leonard Bernstein, the Man Behind the Music

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 10/12 2:06P KIMBERLY RICHARD

Twenty-eight years after his death, Leonard Bernstein remains a cultural icon, revered as the passionate master of the Broadway musical, orchestral music, opera and ballet. To celebrate the centennial of his birth, Verdigris Ensemble reveals the...

Veterans Day: A Soldiers Memory by SMU Music Student to Premiere With Irving Symphony

SMU BubbleLife iReporter 10/11 6:16A Victoria Winkelman

SMU Music Composition Graduate Student Christian Jesse Named Student Composer-in-Residence with Irving Symphony Irving Symphony will premiere his new work, A Soldiers Memory, on Veterans Day...

Teens pulled over near Waco were smuggling immigrants to Dallas, authorities say

Dallas Morning News (News) 10/10 1:49P Tom Steele

Grad Fair is October 19 for December candidates

SMU Parent News 10/10 12:18P Sarah Hanan

Students graduating in December 2018 are invited to learn about Commencement on Friday, October 19, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the SMU Grad Fair on the first floor of the Blanton Building. At the Grad Fair, December candidates may: Order regalia...

October’s Excellent Educator: Shelly Thibodaux

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 10/10 12:11A EVAN ANDERSON

Teachers do more than teach in the classroom. They mold our future. Southern Methodist University and NBC 5 introduced our Excellent Educators series , which honors education professionals across North Texas who go above and beyond. Sewer Overflow...

Former Trump aide, SMU grad Hope Hicks to work at new Fox company

Dallas Morning News (News) 10/8 10:42A Tom Steele

Letting Kids Shape How They Learn Algebra

SMU Research 10/8 10:17A Gary O'Berg

SMU math educator Candace Walkington will use a $1 million NSF grant to help expand tool that allows kids to create and solve algebra problems related to their own interests. Read more about Professor Walkington s research in this Forbes article .