Category Archives: research update

By design, students in SMU’s Lyle School of Engineeringget the opportunity to solve engineering problems for real customers during the course of earning an undergraduate degree. Yasmin Ara ’11, a mechanical engineering major who graduated in May, says the hands-on opportunity reinforced … Continue reading →

Photographer Debora Hunter’s research explores the modern world’s imprint on the iconic New Mexico landscape and the resulting social and environmental contradictions. Her latest study is “Land Marks: Photographs from Taos, New Mexico.” She says about the documentary project she … Continue reading →

Dinosaur bones in a museum sparked SMU graduate student Yuri Kimura’s childhood fascination with fossils. “I was given a piece of 100-million-year-old sedimentary rock,” Kimura recalls of her visit to a museum in her native Japan. “I could not imagine … Continue reading →

Corporal punishment in the United States remains controversial. But for SMU Psychology Professor George Holden, there is no debate. Based on his own research and that of other parenting and child development experts, Holden wants to end spanking as a … Continue reading →

Georita Frierson was 19 years old when her father, an African-American, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and subsequently died of an infection. That experience shaped Frierson’s interest in health psychology, especially in improving the health behavior of underserved groups such … Continue reading →

Synthetic compounds developed in the lab of Chemistry Professor Edward R. Biehl one day may help the millions of people who suffer from nerve-degenerating diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s. Biehl developed and tested the compounds with SMU postdoctoral … Continue reading →

Maya culture has fascinated scientists for decades, but many mysteries remain about the ancient people that rose to prominence for their highly developed civilization in what is now Central America and Mexico. Archaeologist Brigitte Kovacevich, assistant professor of anthropology in … Continue reading →

Research by SMU economist Daniel L. Millimet shows the childhood obesity epidemic plaguing America has an unwitting accomplice – the school cafeteria.
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Assistant Professor Nia Parson, a cultural and medical anthropologist, is looking at the specific needs of abused Mexican women immigrants seeking mental health care.
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A rare 95 million-year-old flying reptile that made its home over Texas has been rescued from obscurity by SMU paleontologist Timothy S. Myers.

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