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29579_CoverFrontBackFinal_Layout 1 1/11/11 12:15 PM Page 2 Inside: Solving The Education MAGAZINE Equation page 26 spring | summer | 2008 Elections, Engineering, Entrepreneurship: Teaching and Research on the Leading Edge – Page 14 29579_2TOC4-21-08 _Layout 1 1/11/11 12:12 PM Page 1 10 | Economics Of Conservation Economics Professor Santanu Roy looks insideat the market forces that drive environ- mental decisions made on species conser- vation and the need for public policy on natural resource management. Photo: ©iStockphoto.com/John Pitcher 26 | The Education Equation 24 | Artful Matters A photo SMU’s Annette Caldwell Simmons essay captures the colors and School of Education and Human angles of works created by Devel opment is offering research- students in the Division of Art. based solutions, ranging from programs that help teachers develop young learners to those that offer lifelong learning to students of all ages. On The Cover A presidential election year is golden for Political Science Pro - fessor Harold Stanley, one of sev- eral SMU faculty members profiled 7 | It’s Official SMU has been selected as in this issue. Also on the cover are the site of the George W. Bush Presidential Busi ness Professor Maria Minniti (top) Library, Museum and Institute. SMU joins and Engineering Professor Laura UT-Austin and Texas A&M in housing presi- Steinberg. See article on page 14. dential libraries, and Texas will be the only Photography by Hillsman S. Jackson state in the nation to house three of them. 29579_2TOC4-21-08 _Layout 1 1/11/11 12:13 PM Page 2 40 | A Digital Moment Class of 2002 alumni share a laugh while looking at snapshots on a digital camera during their reunion last November. During 2008 Homecoming, other classes will celebrate reunions November 8. (See ad on page 39.) 4 | Funds For Biological Sciences A $3.6 million gift from Caren Prothro (left) and the Perkins-Prothro Foundation 30 | Lone Star Poet Jack Myers, former poet has created SMU’s first laureate of Texas, finds that by writing poetry, he endowed chair in biological sci- can capture the grand themes of life in a small ences, strengthening the pro- space. He shares some of his latest work with the gram for students like doctoral SMU community. candidate Christina Paulson. Photo by Melanie Burford, The Dallas Morning News departments 34 | A Stellar Season The 2 | toourreaders women’s basketball team 3 | hilltopgiving shattered SMU records, 7 | hilltopnews winning the Conference 10 | researchupdate USA Tournament champi- 33 | mustangsports onship and returning to the 35 | alumnews NCAA Tournament for the 37 | classnotes first time since 1999. 46 | inmemoriam 29579_ReadersRevised4-11-08_Layout 1 1/11/11 12:36 PM Page 2 toourreaders THE MAKINGS OF A VERY GOOD YEAR f you ask university presidents what that during the years of competition for New endowments and facilities have an counts as “a good year” for their the library, SMU has been happily moving impact on students and faculty. Entering Iinstitutions, most would tell you it’s along and moving up, by all indicators. students’ SAT scores continue to rise, and when student quality is rising, donors are During the past academic year alone, some external funding for faculty research and giving generously, research productivity is examples include: sponsored projects has reached an all-time up, new facilities are in progress and there • The naming and endowment of the high of $20.53 million. New academic lead- is something to cheer about in athletics. Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Educa - ers arrived to guide more enhancements: If their universities also gained national tion and Human Development, with a $20 Paul W. Ludden, provost and vice president distinction by attracting a unique resource million gift from Harold and Annette Simmons for academic affairs; James E. Quick, asso - – such as a presidential library – they also helping to fund a new building. ciate vice president for research and dean would tell you it was a very good year! • The Caruth Institute for Engineering of graduate studies; and David Chard, the That is indeed what I am reporting. Education’s endowment of $10.1 million Leon Simmons dean of the Annette Caldwell SMU’s selection as the site of the George W. from the W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation of Simmons School of Education and Human Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Communities Foundation of Texas, and the Development. Arriving in July is the new Institute made national news. The complex hiring of the Texas Instruments Distinguished dean of Dedman College, Cordelia Candelaria. will bring unprecedented resources for Chair and director of the Institute. In athletics, the women’s basketball research and dialogue. Along with interna- • In Dedman College, the endowment of team won the 2008 Conference USA Tour - tional scholars and dignitaries, hundreds of the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth nament. Mustang fans also welcomed new thousands of visitors will learn what makes Sciences with a new $10 million gift from head football coach June Jones. SMU special. But the other good news is Mr. Huffington, and the C. Vin Prothro So, yes, it’s been a very good year. Biological Sciences Initiative and endowed In choosing SMU as the site of the chair, with $3.6 million from Caren Prothro George W. Bush Presidential Library, the and the Perkins-Prothro Foundation. selection committee noted the University’s • In Perkins School of Theology, the high quality, and the library’s resources will Wendland-Cook Professorship in Construc tive enhance SMU’s prom inence. As we continue Theology, with $1 million from Erroll and to attract support, we will ensure many Barbara Cook Wendland. more very good years for SMU – our second Campus improvements continue with the century of achievement. opening of the Crum Basketball Center, a new 855-vehicle parking garage, residence hall renovations and three buildings in progress or set for groundbreaking – for R. GERALD TURNER engineering, theology and education. President 08567.0508 VOL. 58, NO. 1, SPRING/SUMMER 2008 VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGNERS: SMU Magazine is published by the Office of Public EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Miler Hung, Becky Wade Brad E. Cheves Affairs, Division of Development and External Affairs, in PHOTOGRAPHY: spring/summer and fall/winter for alumni, parents and EDITOR/ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND Hillsman S. Jackson, Laura Graham EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: CONTRIBUTORS: other friends of Southern Methodist University. The Office Patricia Ann LaSalle (M.L.A. ’05) Ann Abbas, Kent Best, Kim Cobb, Cathy Frisinger, Carolyn of Public Affairs retains the right to determine editorial MANAGING EDITOR: George, Sarah Hanan, Kathleen Tibbetts, Deborah Wormser and advertising content and manner of presentation. The Susan White (M.L.A. ’05) PRINTER: opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Etheridge Printing Company reflect official University policy. Letters to the editor and Sherry King Myres (’72) contributions to the Class Notes section are welcomed. SENIOR EDITOR: Copyright © Southern Methodist University 2008 Send correspondence to: Editor, SMU Magazine, Office of Patricia Ward SMU will not discriminate in any employment practice, Public Affairs, PO Box 750174, Dallas TX 75275-0174; ASSISTANT EDITORS: education program, or educational activity on the basis e-mail: [email protected] Nancy Lowell George (’79), Joan Jackson of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability or veteran status. SMU’s commitment to equal oppor - ART DIRECTOR: tunity includes nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual Dorit Suffness, Peterson Ray & Company orientation. 2 SMU MAGAZINE 29579_GivingREV 4-11-08_Layout 1 1/11/11 12:30 PM Page 3 hilltopgiving $10 MILLION GIFT ENDOWS DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES ne of SMU’s oldest and most distinguished academic departments will have new resources to support the growing impact of its research and teaching, thanks to a gift of more than $10 million from the Hon. Roy M. Huffington (’38) of Houston. The gift will endow the Depart ment of Earth Sciences in Dedman College, now renamed the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences. With this new gift, Huffington has given SMU more than $20 million in the past two years and a total of more than $31 million over many years of support for the University. The study of geology has been part of SMU’s curriculum since its Roy Huffington (right) is joined by Earth Sciences faculty (from left) opening in 1915. Through the years, the Geology Department Louis L. Jacobs, Brian W. Stump and Chair Robert T. Gregory. evolved into the Department of Geological Sciences. Changing the name from Geological patterned after the Benjamin Franklin Trust, a unique fund estab- Sciences to Earth lished more than 200 years ago through the estate of the American Sciences reflects the statesman to benefit the cities of Boston and Philadelphia. As broadened scope of with the Franklin Trust, terms are set forth for use of the Huffington this discipline. Funds while they continue to grow over the next two centuries. “The term earth At the gift announcement, Huffington, who earned his B.S. degree sciences more closely in geology from SMU in 1938, paid tribute to his mentor at SMU – captures the essence the late Claude C. Albritton Jr. (’33). Huffington called Albritton, who of programs that served as a professor of geology and administrator at SMU for no longer are confined more than 40 years, “a wonderful teacher who loved teaching and solely to problems students.” Albritton also encouraged Huffington to attend Harvard of subsurface geology,” rather than “head to the oil patch.” says Caroline Brettell, Huffington is chair and CEO of Roy M. Huffington Inc., an inde- interim dean of Confetti rained and applause thundered as the pendent, international petroleum operations firm based in Houston.