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Category Archives: Research
Research: Blue laws, green cards and other colorful legal terms
Elizabeth Thornburg never imagined that she would be turning to Dr. Seuss, Shakespeare and vaudeville for legal research. But those sources proved invaluable when she joined forces with another law professor, a law librarian and a legal lexicographer for the book … Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman School of Law, Denise Gee, Elizabeth Thornburg, faculty books, faculty research, Fred Shapiro, James E. Clapp, Lawtalk, legal history, legal terms, linguistics, Marc Galanter, origins of expressions
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The Guildhall at SMU joins elite Intel university research group
The Guildhall at SMU has received a $50,000 grant from Intel Corporation’s Visual Computing Academic Program for research scholarship funding. SMU students will conduct studies to expand upon applied research pursued within the Intel Science and Technology Centers for Visual Computing (ISTC-VC) and other Intel-supported visual computing … Continue reading
Study: English-language dominance marginalizes most EU citizens
The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 official languages, but its official business is carried out primarily in one language — English. Yet the striking findings of a new study show that barely a third of the EU’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman College, diversity, economics, English-only, European Union, faculty research, language, linguistic disenfranchisement, Margaret Allen, Shlomo Weber, Victor Ginsburgh
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Lyle School initiatives win Navy funding for STEM advocacy
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has named two programs within SMU’s Caruth Institute for Engineering Education to receive grants of $100,000 each for their initiatives that cultivate student interest and participation in science, technology, engineering and math – collectively known as … Continue reading
Research Spotlight: Does public insurance provide better care?
In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it’s widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. government. But … Continue reading
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Tagged CHIP, Dedman College, economics, faculty research, graduate student research, health insurance, healthcare debate, Manan Roy, Margaret Allen, Medicaid, private health insurance, public option
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Research Spotlight: Mathematical model predicts nations’ stability
Thanks to a new model created by an international research group, it is now possible to predict which European countries are more likely to become united or which are more likely to break up. It does so by not only … Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman College, economics, European demographics, European stability, European Union, faculty research, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Shlomo Weber
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Research Spotlight: Mapping confirms vast geothermal resources
New research from the SMU Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts of green power – 10 times the installed capacity of coal power … Continue reading
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Tagged David Blackwell, Dedman College, faculty research, geothermal energy, Google, green energy, Maria Richards, renewable energy, SMU Geothermal Laboratory
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Research Spotlight: Seeking solutions for unsafe water
Supported by a $270,000 grant from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and additional SMU funds, faculty member Andrew Quicksall and his graduate students in the University’s Lyle School of Engineering are collecting water samples in UNHCR refugee camps, bringing samples back … Continue reading