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Debunking Your Misconceptions about College
Wondering what college is really like? Get the inside scoop from an SU senior.
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Debunking Your Misconceptions about College
Wondering what college is really like? Get the inside scoop from an SU senior.
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Subverted Expectations: The Truth about College
A graduating senior reflects on what surprised them the most about the college and SU experience.
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The Beauty of Southwestern
Experience the beauty of Southwestern’s campus through the eyes of one of its students.
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The Professor Chronicles: Catherine Bourland Ross
Professor of Spanish and Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson Endowed Professor Catherine Bourland Ross fosters transformation in her students by focusing on the 5 Cs of language learning: communication, culture, connections, comparisons, and communities.
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Solving Earth’s Problems from Space
German and physics double major Claire Harding ’20 interned with NASA and will be teaching English in Germany as a Fulbright English teaching assistant.
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Scholarly Perspectives on COVID-19, Part 8: Apocalypse or Dystopia?
Professor and Elizabeth Root Paden Chair in Religion and Environmental Studies Laura Hobgood shares how COVID-19 has shaped the conversation in her Apocalypse seminar.
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An Uncertain Semester in DC
Political science and environmental studies double major Keith Rupe ’22 makes the most of an anxiety-filled semester through public organizing in the nation’s capital.
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Southwestern Student Wins Marketing EDGE Scholarship
ThuyMi Phung is the first SU student to receive the prestigious honor.
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Southwestern University’s Robertson Center Receives LED Lighting Upgrades
SU continues to honor its commitment to sustainability and reduced energy consumption.
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Think Globally; Act Locally
International studies and political science major Katherine Tanner ’13 helps nourish a community as “the heart” of Hat & Heart Farm.
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A Future CEO
With her sights set on running her own business one day, Courtney King ’20 shares that making the world a better place is at the heart of all her endeavors.
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The Professor Chronicles: Francis Mathieu
Associate Professor of French Francis Mathieu reflects on his love of teaching, delicious food, and history.
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The Internship Must Go on
Noel Pratts ’21 and Audrey Payton ’21 gain real-world experience in the virtual world.
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Scholarly Perspectives on COVID-19, Part 7: A Panorama of Pandemics
Associate Professor of History Jethro Hernández Berrones discusses the history of epidemic and pandemic disease—and how the future might look back on the present.
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Southwestern University Nominated for a 2020 AASHE Sustainability Award
Selected from more than 400 applicants, SU is a finalist for the award based on its published research regarding the sustainability of higher-education institutions.
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A Summer Well Spent
Four Southwestern students relate their experiences as community-engaged learning associates with nonprofit organizations during the summer of 2020.
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Southwestern University Celebrates Texas Arbor Day by Planting Oak Tree
The event fulfills SU’s commitment to the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus Higher Education program.
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Southwestern Students Engage in Difficult Dialogues
The student-led Project for Emerging Dialogues promotes open-mindedness through honest discussion about controversial topics.
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Scholarly Perspectives on COVID-19, Part 6: The Psychology of a Pandemic
Associate Professor of Psychology Bryan Neighbors reflects on COVID-19, “the most significant natural disaster to strike humankind in all of our lifetimes.”
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Across the Aisle
Southwestern University students reflect the nation’s diversity of political stances.
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Life after Southwestern
Three Southwestern alumni divulge the details of their lives postgraduation.
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Fat over Lean
Mattie Mint ’22 shares about her journey into the professional world through the Kemper Scholar Program.
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I Thought I’d Never Graduate, and That Was BEFORE the Pandemic…
When “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men” really do go awry
