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Mosasaurs and Mardi Gras: Smithsonian’s ancient creature exhibit inspires Chief Shaka Zulu’s Mardi Gras suit

SMU NEWS- Internationally-known for his exquisite Black Masking Mardi Gras suits, Chief Shaka Zulu got his inspiration for this year’s suit from an unlikely source: fossils of ancient creatures discovered in Angola. Chief Shaka saw the remains from the large, prehistoric marine reptiles in an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The […]

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SMU geologist Robert Gregory named AAAS Fellow

SMU NEWS– Congratulations to Robert Gregory, a geologist in SMU’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences. He has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for distinguished contributions to his field, particularly for his research on how the earth’s dynamic systems and his teaching on how the solar system […]

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2022 Dedman College Research Round Up

Dedman College News- Here are some of the Dedman College 2022 research highlights. For the full article please visit SMU News: A study led by fire anthropologist Christopher Roos suggests bringing “good fire” back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today’s […]

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Fossils reveal single tree species dominated Ethiopia rainforest

SMU News- The dominant tree species belonged within the legume family, which includes  beans, peas, and giant trees in tropical forests. “We have estimated the lake beds that contain the fossils were present for about 50,000 to 60,000 years,” said Bonnie Jacobs, an emeritus professor and paleobotanist at SMU (Southern Methodist University) and a co-author […]

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A bright-green comet not seen since last ice age will be in D-FW skies this month

Dallas Morning News – Dallas scientists say the comet takes 50,000 years to make a trip around the sun. A bright-green comet that has not been seen since the last ice age will be visible in D-FW skies later this month. The comet, called C/2022 E3 (ZTF), was discovered by astronomers at the Zwicky Transient […]

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Happy Holidays

SMU will be closed for the holiday from December 23 to January 2. Enjoy your break and see you in the new year.

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Congratulations to the December Graduates

December Commencement is Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. in Moody Coliseum. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. To see all the details for Commencement weekend, including a link to the ceremony live stream, visit here on our website.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing all of our SMU family and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. SMU will be closed November 24-25. 

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Length of a canoe = wingspan of this new pterosaur species

SMU’s paleontologists Louis Jacobs and Michael Polcyn helped find fossils of this flying reptile of the dinosaur. Learn more is Science Daily

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Armstrongs commit $5 million to endow dean position

SMU – A $5 million gift from entrepreneurs Elisabeth Martin Armstrong ’82 and William D. Armstrong ’82 will further the academic and research excellence of the SMU Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences by endowing the school’s dean position, renaming it the Elisabeth Martin Armstrong Dean. Through their gift, the Armstrongs will support Dedman College’s future-focused leadership […]