SMU is officially announcing what readers of the “print product” knew back in October: the creation of the Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity. In our November issue, we profiled the institute’s director in a story titled “General Badass.” Jeffrey Talley more or less let slip the name of the institute. The story contained the following passage:
Less clear is Talley’s charge vis-Ã -vis his Caruth Hall-based institute, the name of which [Lyle School of Engineering dean Geoffrey] Orsak, of course, declines to reveal prematurely for fear of unsettling his donors.
“The Institute for Engineering and Humanity,” crows Talley. “It should be the Stephanie and Hunter Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity. That’s what I think.”
It seems that the name of the institute changed. A couple months ago, one gathers, the Hunts’ names were not attached to it; now they are. As they should be.
