Southern Methodist University
The Southern Methodist University (also SMU called) is a private university in University Park ( Dallas County ) in the state of Texas . Founded in 1911, 10,901 students are currently enrolled at the university. The SMU is part of the United Methodist Church , but only about 25% of them are members of that church. The university is particularly known for its research and teaching in the fields of law and economics.
The SMU's Meadows Museum houses one of the largest and highest quality collections of Spanish painting outside of Spain.
Faculties
- Humanities and Natural Sciences (Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences)
- Engineering
- Arts (Meadows School of the Arts)
- Pedagogy and Human Development
- Law (Dedman School of Law)
- Theology (Perkins School of Theology)
- Economics (Cox School of Business)
Personalities
Professors
- Robert T. Anderson - organist
- Guy Bovet - Swiss organist and composer
- Richard Gray - level designer in the computer game industry
- Rick Halperin - Holocaust researcher and human rights activist
- Thomas Osang - economist
- György Sándor - pianist
Graduates
- James Cronin - physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1980
Society, Politics and Law
- Laura Bush - wife of George W. Bush
- Henry Cloud - psychologist, consultant, author, and speaker
- Karen Hughes - State Secretary at the US State Department
- Harriet Miers - Supreme Court Justice nominated by George W. Bush
- Thomas C. Oden - Methodist theologian
- Alexa Halaby - sister of Queen Nūr of Jordan and daughter of Najeeb Halaby
Sports
- Raymond Berry - American football player and coach, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
- Eric Dickerson - American football player, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
- Jackie Galloway - Taekwondoin (bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro)
- Forrest Gregg - American football player and coach, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Lars Frölander - swimmer, Olympic champion at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
- Martina Moravcová - swimmer (two silver medals at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney)
- Jerry Norton - American Football Player
- Kajsa Bergqvist - high jumper (bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney)
- Payne Stewart - golfer
entertainment
- Aaron Spelling - television and film producer
- Amy Acker - actress
- Dylan Baker - actor
- Kathy Bates - actress
- Lauren Graham - actress
- Lee Hazlewood - record producer and singer
- Patricia Richardson - actress (e.g. West Wing)
- Powers Boothe - actor
- Sarah Shahi - actress
music
- George C. Baker - American organist and dermatologist
- Wolfgang Rübsam - German-American organist
- Carole Terry - American organist
economy
- Lamar Hunt - Founder of the American Football League and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs
- Jeffrey Skilling - Former CEO of Enron
Science and technology
- Mary Ellen Weber - astronaut
Sports
The SMU sports teams are known as the Mustangs and are members of the American Athletic Conference . In the field of college football , the college was responsible for the Ponygate scandal in the mid-1980s , which was one of the greatest scandals in American sports history.
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Coordinates: 32 ° 50 '38.8 " N , 96 ° 47' 5.5" W.