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Rena Pederson, adjunct professor in the Master of Liberal Studies program at ��Ʒ������'s Annette Caldwell Simmons College of Education and Human Development, writes about the current state of Burma, now known as Myanmar.

Houston business leader Jack Blanton Sr. and his family have been part of ��Ʒ������ for most of its history.

��Ʒ������ mourns the passing of longtime supporter Harold C. Simmons.

Men's and Women's Basketball teams will play their first games in the renovated Moody Coliseum on Jan. 4.

��Ʒ������ wishes you and yours happiness and peace in this holiday season.

Jordan, an English major, blogs about studying abroad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Congratulations to the graduates at Saturday's commencement and rededication of Moody Coliseum.

��Ʒ������ trustee and business leader Ray L. Hunt gave the commencement address at ��Ʒ������ University on December 21, 2013.

Prof. Eric Bing of ��Ʒ������ and the Bush Institute is a finalist for "Texan of the Year"

President Obama has announced the nomination of Texas tax attorney and former TARP panel member Mark McWatters to the NCUA Board.

��Ʒ������ Prof. Peter Weyand hold a media day to promote better understanding of his research into "flopping," which is being funded by a grant from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

Joanne Vogel of Florida is ��Ʒ������'s new AVP and Dean of Student Life.

��Ʒ������ education scholar Michael McLendon is the new Annette and Harold Simmons Centennial Chair.

Innovative CEO Dan Connors of Telltale, Inc. will address The Guildhall at ��Ʒ������'s graduating Cohort 18 and students will show their game design work on Friday, Dec. 20 at ��Ʒ������-in-Plano.

Avery Acker was became the fourth player in ��Ʒ������ program history to earn All-America status, earning honorable mention to the 2013 AVCA All-America team.

��Ʒ������ computer science Prof. Tyler Moore, who who has studied Bitcoin, talks about the price of a Bitcoin slumping Wednesday after China's largest exchange for the virtual currency said it would stop accepting deposits in yuan — China's local currency.

History Prof. Alexis McCrossen says, if the past is a guide, the iWatch is likely to fail.

Pamela Patton, chair of Art History at ��Ʒ������, talks about the blog "People of Color in European Art History."

An opinion piece on the needs of Texas teachers by Professor David Chard, dean of ��Ʒ������'s Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, and Stephanie Hirsh, a former school board member in Richardson and executive director of Learning Forward.

��Ʒ������ Political Science Professor Matthew Wilson and ��Ʒ������ Adjunct Business Professor William Noakes comment on the complex legacy of Nelson Mandela.

��Ʒ������ Law Professor Jessica Weaver talks about a North Texas teen's probation sentence for a drunken wreck that killed four pedestrians.

Jennifer M. Collins, a legal scholar, has been selected as the new dean of ��Ʒ������ Dedman School of Law.

Each year, ��Ʒ������'s Celebration of Lights kicks off the holiday season with singing, reading of the Christmas Story and lighting the Main Quad.

The holiday season went into high gear at ��Ʒ������ on December 2, 2013, with a rare weekday observance of one of the University’s most beloved annual traditions.

Use ��Ʒ������’s book list to satisfy your gift list with stories ranging from historical to fictional to inspirational.

��Ʒ������ Meadows School of the Arts has been named an Apple Distinguished Program for 2013-15.

Business leader Ray Hunt will give the commencement address Saturday in Moody Coliseum.

��Ʒ������ is home to the oldest mass-produced Christmas card – dating back more than 160 years.

��Ʒ������ Music Professor Martin Sweidel shares his list of holiday favorites.

��Ʒ������ experts offer tips for enjoying the holidays while avoiding the stress and tribulations.

Tips for helping make the holidays fun – not stressful – for the youngest members of these re-arranged households.

A now-classic study by ��Ʒ������ marketing professor Daniel Howard holds that giving a gift that has been lovingly wrapped does influence the recipient to value it more.

10 tips for dealing with children's relentless “must-have” gifts this holiday season.

Hal Barkley, Director of Counseling in ��Ʒ������'s Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, offers 10 tips for coping with holiday stress.

��Ʒ������ seniors Kenneth Acker and Jeremy Johnson have been named All-American Athletic Conference in a vote by the league's 10 head coaches, the conference office announced Wednesday.

��Ʒ������ scholars on the extraordinary life of freedom fighter and humanitarian Nelson Mandela.

��Ʒ������'s Maguire Energy Institute honors Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield.

��Ʒ������ scientists plan to deploy seismic monitors near Azle in North Texas.

The Meadows Museum is co-organizing 'Sorolla and America,' the first retrospective of work by Spanish impressionist Joaquín Sorolla to focus on the impact the artist had in the United States. It opens Dec. 13, 2013.

��Ʒ������ will resume normal operations and class schedules Monday morning, Dec. 9, at both its main Dallas campus and at ��Ʒ������-in-Plano.

Renovated Moody Coliseum to open for commencement and basketball.

��Ʒ������ is monitoring weather conditions in North Texas. Thursday evening classes will be held as scheduled on the main campus. Thursday evening classes at ��Ʒ������-in-Plano have been cancelled due to the inclement weather.

Professor Albert W. Niemi, dean of ��Ʒ������'s Cox School of Business and holder of the Tolleson Chair in Business Leadership, says “We are going to have several decades, nationally, of a depressed economy. It is mind boggling what is happening to the United States of America.”

Art history major Meredith Tavallaee lands top internships at Paris’s Louvre and the Cluny Museum.

Wednesday's win over the University of Illinois-Chicago by ��Ʒ������ Men's Basketball team was NCAA career win No. 200 for Mustang head coach Larry Brown.

��Ʒ������ Engineering Professor Jeff Kennington, 68, died Nov. 26 of cancer at his Dallas home. Kennington served as chairman of various engineering disciplines at ��Ʒ������ for a total of 17 years, but his expertise was in operations research, which uses advanced mathematical modeling to help make decisions. He was widely respected in his field. Kennington was named a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in 2005.

The December arrival of a new supercomputer at ��Ʒ������ expands the University’s high performance computing capacity to weigh in among the top academic computers in the United States.

Earth Sciences Prof. Brian Stump releases a study on earthquakes and natural gas recovery.

��Ʒ������'s National Center for Arts Research issues its first report on the health of the arts.

��Ʒ������'s Jewel Lipps receives a fellowship to work on environmental restoration issues.

��Ʒ������ researchers find that gut reactions of marital partners can foretell their marriage satisfaction.

Expertise and documents related to the life and times -- and assassination -- of President John F. Kennedy were provided by ��Ʒ������ faculty members, the University Central Libraries Collections, and others associated with the University.

Print and online media coverage of the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy included interviews with ��Ʒ������ faculty and students, as well as archival materials from ��Ʒ������ libraries.

Television coverage of the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy included interviews with ��Ʒ������ faculty and archival materials from ��Ʒ������ libraries.

��Ʒ������ students blog about spending fall break in Oklahoma helping others.

��Ʒ������'s James Quick has been named a fellow of the AAAS for volcanic and geological research.

If you have a Mustang on your holiday gift list, look no further than the ��Ʒ������ Gift Guide.

Sarah Feuerbacher, director at ��Ʒ������'s Center for Family Counseling, provided expertise for a story on the nation's psychological reaction to the assassination of President Kennedy.

John Angle, an ��Ʒ������ student, was interviewed by The New York Times, for its coverage of the Dallas observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

It is the goal of ��Ʒ������ to remain open and hold classes as scheduled. However, if conditions warrant closing, the President in consultation with the ��Ʒ������ Police and the Provost will make that decision. Individual schools, colleges and departments are not authorized to make their own decisions on closings, delayed openings or cancellation of classes.

Fifty years after the assassination, ��Ʒ������ professors are explaining the era to students and media.

As the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, photographs of scenes from the Civil War are available through ��Ʒ������'s extensive photographic collections.

This FREE half-day conference will not only include the simulcast of TEDWomen: Invented Here, but will also feature former TEDx��Ʒ������ speakers and local leaders in innovation to speak about their innovative ideas and work in philanthropy.

– The Division of Theatre at ��Ʒ������’s Meadows School of the Arts presents "The Seven" by Will Power on December 4-8 at the Greer Garson Theatre in the Owen Arts Center on the ��Ʒ������ campus.

The Rev. Gary MacDonald, a United Methodist minister and director of Advanced Ministerial Studies at ��Ʒ������’s Perkins School of Theology, talks about the struggle over homosexuality in the denomination and the recent church trial of the Rev. Frank Schaefer for performing a homosexual wedding.

Britt Berrett, president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, will speak about "Healthcare Policy - What led us to Obamacare and where do we go now?" at ��Ʒ������ on Nov. 22.

An alarming increase in human rights violations by law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh will be the focus of a presentation and panel discussion Saturday, Nov. 23, at ��Ʒ������.

A lecture by Lorena Cabnal, a Maya-Xinka woman and co-founder of AMISMAXAJ, a group of rural Xinka women of Xalapán in Eastern Guatemala. Through AMISMAXAJ, Lorena has worked towards the recognition and revitalization of the almost-extinct ethnic identity of the Xinka people and the recovery of their ancestral lands.

Mustang Strings is a string orchestra that is made up of students who are majoring in music education, music performance, pre-med, business, accounting as well as community musicians who enjoy playing their musical instruments.

IBM announces that it is adding eleven additional schools, including ��Ʒ������, to its more than 200 partnerships with universities around the globe, focusing on collaborating to bring cyber security skills into the classroom.

��Ʒ������ Anthropology Professor Ron Wetherington on the teaching of evolution in public school science classes.

��Ʒ������ Cox Executive Education and corporate sponsors launch Latino Leadership Initiative.

National cyber security expert Fred Chang, the former director of research for the NSA now on faculty in ��Ʒ������’s Lyle School of Engineering, testified Tuesday, Nov. 19, before a congressional committee in Washington, D.C., called to examine concerns about lack of privacy protection for users of the healthcare.gov website.

Students in a special class on the life and times of President Kennedy blog about their experiences.

��Ʒ������ is providing scholarly analysis and archival materials as the world recalls JFK and his assassination.

Greg Needel is first and foremost a mechanical engineer. His art is really just a byproduct of his innovative design process. Greg builds things.

Legendary Texas oil and gas executive T. Boone Pickens, who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management, emerged as the top vote-getter in the annual CEO Sentiment Survey™ conducted by ��Ʒ������ Cox School of Business.

Sherry L. Smith, Dedman Family Distinguished Professor of History and associate director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at ��Ʒ������, talks about the origin of the Washington Redskins logo.

The Meadows Jazz Orchestra explores the traditions of large ensemble jazz and will be featuring repertoire by Count Basie and Thad Jones, in addition to works by two great composers from the Dallas area, Lou Marini and Dave Zoller.

To a large degree, how Dealey Plaza looks on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death and how his assassination is treated in the nearby Sixth Floor Museum are due to ��Ʒ������ alumna Lindalyn Adams.

Cox's Caruth Institute picks One Technologies the top entrepreneur in annual Dallas 100™ competition.

The Texas Faith blog takes up the question of John F. Kennedy’s impact on religion in America with responses from three ��Ʒ������ faculty members.

The following interview with ��Ʒ������ President R. Gerald Turner by Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith was posted Oct. 24, 2013, on The Texas Tribune site.

Daniel Hawkins, a junior studying for a Bachelor of Music in French horn at ��Ʒ������’s Meadows School of the Arts, has been named a first place winner in the Young Artist Performance category of the Texas Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Competition, held November 9-10 at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville.

The Meadows Museum at ��Ʒ������ has acquired a major work by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), Portrait of Mariano Goya, the Artist's Grandson, painted in 1827. The work — which has not been on display for more than 40 years — is one of Goya's last paintings, finished just months before his death. Read more at http://www.smu.edu/News/2013/meadows-acquires-goya-11oct2013

Adithya Ganesh, 17, and Vinjai Vale, 13, talk about a bionic glove they have invented -- and made publicly available -- to help people with missing fingers be able to better use their hands. They talked about their invention with Fox 4 News on Oct. 16, and at ��Ʒ������'s TEDxKids on Oct. 18, 2013.

In a lecture at ��Ʒ������ on Oct. 17, 2013, holocaust survivor Philip Bialowitz talked about his experiences in the Sobibor Nazi concentration camp.

Miguel H. Díaz, former United States Ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, will deliver a public lecture, “Revisiting the Garden of Eden: God, Communal Relations, and the Quest for Peace,” at ��Ʒ������ on Dec. 3

Ben Voth, Ben Voth associate professor of communication at ��Ʒ������ and director of debate and speech programs, writes about the five interesting rhetorical features that dominated the text of the speech President Kennedy was to have delivered in Dallas.

��Ʒ������ is reshaping the campus residence experience through the Residential Commons. To get the inside story on what's happening, read the blogs

Three hours of credit in eight days? Apply now at ��Ʒ������-in-Plano or ��Ʒ������-in-Taos.

��Ʒ������'s Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility honored university veterans with special pins and well-deserved recognition at the flagpole on Veterans Day.

Students blog about visiting with political communicators, journalists and alumni in Washington, D.C.

��Ʒ������'s 2013 Homecoming weekend on Oct. 24-17 brought thousands of friends and alumni to campus for reunions, football, a parade and various other activities, as well as the announcement of a $1 billion goal for the Second Century Campaign at the Volunteer Summit.

Joshua Rovner, the John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security at ��Ʒ������, talks about the upcoming budget crunch for defense and the importance of recognizing success.

Military prosecutor U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jay Morse spoke to students in ��Ʒ������'s Dedman School of Law on Nov. 7, 2013, about the case of the soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians in 2012 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole earlier this year.

Cox School's EMBA and PMBA programs both moved up to #3 in new business school rankings.

After helping to establish the ��Ʒ������ Polo program in 2009, coach Tom Goodspeed watched last year’s women’s team compete in the regional finals and the men’s team battle at nationals.

Third-year ��Ʒ������ Dedman School of Law student Michael LoCoco was a guest on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" on Oct. 25, 2013, talking about his frustrations with the Healthcare.gov site. He also wrote an opinion piece for Forbes magazine -- "A Tech Savvy Millennial's Wasted Week Spent Test-Crashing The Obama Exchanges."

Meadows is hosting composer, conductor and performer Gunther Schuller, a Pulitzer Prize winner.