Newsweek – I knew right away we had something special, especially considering it was so old,” said Michael Polcyn, a vertebrate paleontologist and mosasaur expert at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The discovery of the oldest fossil of a marine reptile, dating back 94 million years, is shedding new light on the evolution of […]
SIAM News – Lizuo Liu delivered a minisymposium presentation on this research at the 2022 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22), which took place in San Diego, Ca., last year. He received funding to attend MDS22 through a SIAM Student Travel Award. Learning Oscillatory Navier-Stokes Flows and Causal Linear Operators with Deep Neural Network […]
SMU YouTube – SMU is making big investments in technology to advance research and scholarship. Already empowered by Ph.D. fellowships through the Moody School, SMU graduate students also have access to cutting-edge supercomputing capabilities at the Center for Research Computing. Watch how SMU supercomputing is powering the next generation of forward-thinking researchers. Learn more: smu.edu/investingforimpact […]
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George W. Bush Presidential Library – Thomas DiPiero, the Elisabeth Martin Armstrong Dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences joins actress Mary Badham to have a conversation on the enduring meaning and importance of the book, To Kill A Mockingbird. Watch: https://www.bushcenter.org/events-and-exhibits/laura-bush-book-club-to-kill-a-mockingbird?fbclid=IwAR3_j_AVpQmo_yrPeb2EdwfRHaugyjJk0kjt6DjDihNE9s1UyGcgR8rhypw
Dedman College News – At the May 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies (WMU, Kalamazoo MI), the world’s largest medieval conference, SMU faculty member Bonnie Wheeler (English and Medieval Studies) received a multitude of honors for her lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies. First, she was awarded the 2023 Medieval Foremother Prize for her extensive publications […]
Religious studies expert Johan Elverskog told the China Project Buddhist Uyghur relics displayed in Berlin are helping a new generation of European Uyghurs better understand their past. Read the full article.
Dedman College Dean Thomas DiPiero, an expert on To Kill A Mockingbird, told KERA that Atticus Finch remains an ideal of truth, justice and fatherly wisdom. After re-reading the novel as adults, however, DiPiero said many may find Atticus more complicated than they remember. Read the full KERA article.
SMU News – SMU geophysicist Zhong Lu is part of a team working on a new NASA program to make free satellite-based observations of Earth’s water, ecosystem and land surface available to anyone with an internet connection. Scientists routinely rely on data-intensive analysis and visualization of satellite observations to track Earth’s ever-changing surface. The open-sourcing of the information […]
Lori Stephens, lecturer in the Department of English, was recently featured in LitTalk: A DFW Author Panel Series to discuss her new novel, Blue Running. Describe Blue Running and a bit of the creative process and inspiration. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. A gun accident killed her best friend, but […]