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‘Failing Families, Failing Science’

Inside Higher Ed Originally Posted: December 2, 2016 New book about balancing work and home life as an academic scientist warns that failure to address the challenge will cost institutions and science as a whole. By Colleen Flaherty Much of the literature on balancing faculty and home life centers on women. There’s talk of the “baby penalty” for women […]

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Event 11/15-Hunger & Homelessness Awareness: A Discussion of Dallas’s Response

  The McNair Scholars Program &  The Department of Sociology Present a Panel: Hunger & Homelessness Awareness: A Discussion of Dallas’s Response A panel of local experts will discuss the challenges of hunger and homelessness in our community. Topics include: Dallas’s housing crisis, nonprofit intervention strategies, street outreach initiatives, and your questions. Tuesday, November 15, […]

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SMU to host early voting Oct. 31, Nov. 1

SMU News Originally Posted: October 26, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – Early voting for Dallas County residents will be available on the SMU campus Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.  The polling place at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer St., will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days, and free parking will be […]

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SOCI/MKCL Alumni Networking

Event Date: October 26, 2016 Location: Hughes Trigg, Suite 200 Time: 5 to 6:30 pm Please join us for a casual get together to gain exposure to different career paths and learn how to leverage your academic experience into the world of work. For more information contact: Chelsi McLain or visit https://www.smu.edu/StudentAffairs/Career/Contact.

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Research: Women hit harder by the pressures of elite academic science

SMU News Originally Posted: October 12, 2016 We find that the fixed view of the ideal scientist has a significant impact on the ability of both women and men to stay in and succeed in academic science.” — Lincoln, Ecklund Work life in academia might sound like a dream: summers off, year-long sabbaticals, the opportunity […]

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How work and family life conflict in the modern university Academic science still operates on assumptions that have failed to catch up with the realities of today’s family lives, argue scholars

Times Higher Education Originally Posted: September 29, 2016 A new book explores how to “expand the family-friendliness of academic science”. Failing Families, Failing Science: Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science is based on a survey of close to 3,500 biologists and physicists in top American universities, followed up by 184 in-depth interviews. “We started out the project […]

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2016-2017 Dallas-Fort Worth Schweitzer Fellows Named

DFW Schweitzer Fellows will launch health and wellbeing initiatives within underserved communities while completing leadership training Dallas, TX, June 23, 2016—The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) announced the selection of its second class of Dallas-Fort Worth Albert Schweitzer Fellows—9 graduate students who will spend the next year learning to effectively address the social factors that impact […]

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Sheri Kunovich, Sociology, shares insight on SMU-in-Taos campus life

Taos News Originally Posted: May 31, 2016 Fort Burgwin wasn’t much to look at in 1973 when Southern Methodist University (SMU) took over the independent research facility that was solely focused on archaeology. But four decades later, SMU-in-Taos is a full-fledged campus. With a slew of renovations in the past two years, the campus is […]

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Celebrating Dedman College Faculty Books

The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and Dedman College hosted the inaugural SMU Faculty Bookfest on Tuesday, May 3 in the Dallas Hall Rotunda. Remarks and presentations were made in celebration of books published by SMU faculty in 2015. View a slideshow of the event photos here. For more information on Dedman College faculty books, click here.

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SMU’s May 14 Commencement celebrates academic achievement

SMU News Originally Posted: May 3, 2016 SMU will celebrate the academic accomplishments of more than 2,500 students at its 101st annual Commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in Moody Coliseum. Guests are urged to arrive early as seating in the coliseum is limited to four guests per student. Additional seating will be […]