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Tag Archives: Margaret Allen
Research: SMU students discover two new supernovae
SMU graduate student researchers have discovered two new supernovae, and their observations of these massive exploding stars will help improve the astronomical “tape measure” that scientists use to calculate the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. A supernova discovered … Continue reading
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Tagged Farley Ferrante, Govinda Dhungana, graduate student research, Margaret Allen, Robert Kehoe, Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment, ROTSE3b, supernovae, supernovas, Virgo Cluster
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Research: How hiding in plain sight saved the Jicarilla Apache
North America’s Jicarilla Apache tribe cloaked themselves in trade, diplomacy, and intermarriage and nearly escaped incarceration on an American Indian reservation. How they did it has been a mystery of the historical American Southwest – until now. “In some ways, … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, archaeology, B. Sunday Eiselt, Dedman College, enclavement, ethnohistory, faculty books, faculty research, Jicarilla Apache, Margaret Allen, Native American history, Ronald H. Towner, Southwest studies
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Research: SMU paleontologist identifies new Texas fossil species
A new species of coelacanth fish has been discovered in Texas. Pieces of tiny fossil skull found in Fort Worth have been identified as 100 million-year-old coelacanth bones, according to SMU paleontologist John Graf. The coelacanth has one of the longest … Continue reading
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Tagged coelacanth, Cretaceous, Cretaceous Period, Dedman College, fossils, graduate student research, Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, John F. Graf, John Graf, Margaret Allen, paleontology, Reidus hilli, Texas fossils
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Research: New insight into a 19th-century fossil feud
In the late 1800s, a flurry of fossil speculation across the American West escalated into a high-profile national feud called the Bone Wars. Drawn into the spectacle were two scientists from the Lone Star State: geologist Robert T. Hill, now acclaimed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bone Wars, Dedman College, DeGolyer Library, dinosaurs, Edward Drinker Cope, faculty research, Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Jacob Boll, Louis Jacobs, Margaret Allen, Othniel Charles Marsh, paleontology, Robert T. Hill, Texas dinosaurs
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Research: Do trade restrictions actually increase exporting?
Imposing trade restrictions on parallel imports has the surprising effect of motivating a firm to export, according to a new study by economists Santanu Roy of SMU’s Dedman College and Kamal Saggi of Vanderbilt University. Using game theory analysis, the economists found that diverse parallel … Continue reading
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Tagged Dedman College, economics, faculty research, game theory, gray market, gray product, Kamal Saggi, Margaret Allen, parallel importing, Santanu Roy, trade restrictions, World Bank
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Study: 64% of students willing to donate genetic material for science
A majority of college students is receptive to donating blood or other genetic material for scientific research, according to a new SMU study. In what appears to be the first study to gauge college students’ willingness to donate to a … Continue reading
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Tagged biobanks, blood donation, Dedman College, faculty research, genetic research, Georita Frierson, Margaret Allen, Olivia Adolphson, psychology, tissue donation, undergraduate student research
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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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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: Study will look at stress in young women with aggressive breast cancer
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Tagged breast cancer, faculty research, Georita Frierson, Margaret Allen, National Cancer Institute, psychology of illness, Simmons Cancer Center, triple negative breast cancer
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Research Spotlight: Digital dino track a roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources
Portable laser scanning technology allows researchers to tote their latest fossil discovery from the field to the lab in the form of lightweight digital data stored on a laptop. But sharing that data as a 3D model with others requires … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Strganac, Dedman College, Dinosaur Valley, faculty research, Glen Rose, Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Louis Jacobs, Margaret Allen, Michael Polcyn, paleontology, Texas dinosaurs, Thomas Adams, video
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