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Samyak Shertok awarded 2023 Witness Poetry Prize

Dedman College News – Samyak Shertok, a Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, has won the 2023 Witness Poetry Prize.  Judge Joy Harjo, former Poet Laureate of the United States, writes:  “The poem ‘Mother Tongue: A Haunting’ is a tight construction that embodies the haunting of language displacement amidst liminal familial memory.  Mysterious essences of ghost presences […]

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Bonnie Wheeler receives Singular Praise

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 […]

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Dedman College Announces 2023 Faculty Awards

Congratulations to the following: Ryszard Stroynowski Dedman Family Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Russ Caren Prothro Award Robert Gregory and Joe Kobylka Perrine Prize

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SMU Biosciences professor receives NIH grant for research on epilepsy

Newswise — An estimated 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making them 16 times more likely to die suddenly compared to the general population. SMU biology researcher Edward Glasscock has received a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study that he hopes will lead to the identification of biomarkers […]

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SMU Maguire Ethics Center awards Dedman College students with public service fellowships

Dedman College News – The SMU Maguire Ethics Center awards Public Service Fellowships to undergraduate and graduate students interested in volunteer work or research in ethics during the summer months. Recipients are required to complete 200 hours of public service during the summer term. For 25 years The Maguire Ethics Center has awarded summer fellowships […]

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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

LitHub – A story published in Southwest Review​ has won the O. Henry, a major literary prize. Congratulations to Rodrigo Blanco Calderón for “The Mad People of Paris,”and translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead. Read the full article in Lit Hub.

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Alida Liberman Awarded Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching

Congratulations to Alida Liberman, SMU Associate Professor of Philosophy! The Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching, sponsored by the American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA), recognizes a philosophy teacher who has had a profound impact on the student learning of philosophy in undergraduate and/or […]

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Joshua Ange receives Goldwater Scholarship

Dedman College News – Joshua Ange, a second-year President’s Scholar majoring in Physics and Mathematics with minors in Computer Science and English, has been awarded the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater encourages the country’s most promising undergraduate scientists to pursue careers in natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering research and is considered the preeminent […]

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Two Ph.D. students awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships

SMU News – Ph.D. students Juliana Antonio, in the Department of Chemistry, and Alexa Hassien in the Department of Statistical, received the highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP). The NSF-GRFP is committed to ensuring the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the U.S. This fellowship provides three years of […]

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SMU advances to the final four of Varsity IPDA National Championship at Boise State University 2023

Dedman College News – SMU debater and senior Kaleb Simes advanced to the final four of top varsity debaters at the IPDA National Championship in Boise, Idaho (March 23-25). SMU debaters advanced to the elimination rounds of novice and varsity levels of the International Public Debate Association tournament at Boise State University (March 23-25). SMU […]