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Event: Feb. 20, Using Spack for Development on ManeFrame II

Event Date: February 20 Location: Fondren Library East Room 110 Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM The Spring 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly […]

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SMU Department of Psychology Announces Accelerated M.S. Degree Program in Organizational Psychology

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Event: Feb. 21, Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Event: Feb. 13, Using Version Control on ManeFrame II

Event Date: February 13 Location: Fondren Library East Room 110 Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM The Spring 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly […]

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Political Science Professor, Matthew Wilson, Quoted in USA Today

USA Today Originally Posted: Feb. 5, 2019 This is an excerpt from the USA Today article. To read the full article click here. “(Trump’s) electoral winning coalition was razor-thin to being with, and he has done nothing to reach out to new constituencies,” said Matthew Wilson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University. “The […]

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In Memoriam: Richard Haberman

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Dynamical Systems Acivity Group electronic magazine Originally Posted: Feb. 7, 2019 Richard Haberman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1978-2015 We are very sad to have to report that Richard Haberman passed away on December 31, 2018. Richard (Rich) was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1945, and […]

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Urban Revitalization Is Not “One Size Fits All”

Forbes Originally Posted: Feb. 5, 2019 Adopting a one-size-fits-all approach to problem solving is almost never a good policy. What works well in one context could be precisely the wrong thing to do in another. Use an axe to cut down a massive tree; use a scalpel to conduct a delicate surgery. Switching one for […]

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Affordable housing, better schools offer bridges to Dallas’ ‘have’ vs. ‘have-not’ gap

Dallas Business Journal Originally Posted: Feb. 7, 2019 Cullen Clark, director of the George W. Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth … Klaus Desmet, a professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University are featured in this article. There are solutions to narrowing a growing racial and ethnic economic divide in Dallas, including some practices that are already in […]

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How the widening racial wealth divide threatens Dallas, nation

Dallas Business Journal Originally Post: Feb. 6, 2019 When income polarization increases, the middle class thins out, says Klaus Desmet, a professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University. Dallas has had lower unemployment and a stronger economy than most major U.S. cities over the past decade, but racial economic inequality in the city is much higher […]

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Scientist With A Heart

Global Golf Post Dr. Ryszard Stroynowski, professor of experimental physics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, admits to being slightly disappointed in his former student Bryson DeChambeau. Like others at SMU, Stroynowski is happy for DeChambeau’s success as a golfer, the 25-year-old having climbed to fifth in the world ranking, but there’s a twinge of […]