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State of Belief: Teaching the bible at public schools in Texas
Religious radio State of Belief with Rev. Welton Gaddy interviewed SMU religious studies expert Mark A. Chancey for its program “Teaching the bible at public schools in Texas,” which aired March 11. Continue reading
Parenting program tackles child abuse and neglect among formerly homeless families
A parenting program developed by researchers in SMU’s Department of Psychology will now help Dallas-area families who were once homeless.
Family Compass, one of the oldest child abuse prevention agencies in Dallas, is expanding its use of “Project Support.” The Project Support program was developed by SMU psychologists Renee McDonald and Ernest Jouriles to reduce child abuse and neglect in severely violent families. Continue reading
Salon: How the religious right is undermining education
News web site Salon covered the research of SMU religious studies expert Mark A. Chancey. A new report by Chancey, “Reading, Writing & Religion II,” found that most of the 60 public school districts in Texas that offer Bible study courses aren’t meeting a 2007 state law mandating that the courses be fair as well as academically and legally sound. The Salon article “How the religious right is undermining education” published Feb. 25.
Chancey prepared the report for the Austin-based education watchdog group Texas Freedom Network. His study uncovered bias, factual errors and insufficient curriculum standards in Texas public school Bible courses. Continue reading
UPI: Cosmic explosions give dark energy clues
The Asian news wire service Asian News International has covered the SMU Physics Department’s recent supernovae discoveries.
The article, “Exploding stars offer clues to dark energy,” was published Feb. 28. Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova by SMU graduate students in the physics department. Continue reading
ANI News: Exploding stars offer clues to dark energy
The Asian news wire service Asian News International has covered the SMU Physics Department’s recent supernovae discoveries.
The article, “Exploding stars offer clues to dark energy,” was published Feb. 28. Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova by SMU graduate students in the physics department.
Both supernovae were spotted with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment‘s robotic telescope ROTSE3b, at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas. Continue reading
redOrbit: Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Supernovae
The news web site redOrbit has covered the SMU Physics Department’s recent supernovae discoveries. The article was published Feb. 27. Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova. Both supernovae were spotted with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment‘s robotic telescope ROTSE3b, which is now operated by SMU graduate students. Continue reading
The New York Times: In Texas, Public School Bible Classes Inch Toward Evangelism
The New York Times has written about the research of SMU religious studies expert Mark A. Chancey. A recent report by Chancey, “Reading, Writing & Religion II,” found that most of the 60 public school districts in Texas that offer Bible study courses aren’t meeting a 2007 state law mandating that the courses be fair as well as academically and legally sound. The March 1 article by Mark Oppenheimer, “In Texas, Public School Bible Classes Inch Toward Evangelism,” quotes Chancey and cites his research. Continue reading
White dwarf supernovae are discovered in Virgo Cluster galaxy and in sky area “anonymous”
Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova by SMU researchers.
A supernova discovered Feb. 6 exploded about 450 million years ago, and a second supernova discovered Nov. 20 exploded about 230 million years ago. Continue reading
Hiding in plain sight: How invisibility saved New Mexico’s 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. Continue reading