Category Archives: research update

For the second consecutive year, SMU’s Department of Economics has fielded the first-place team in a prestigious national data mining competition.
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SMU Electrical Engineering Professor Gary Evans is looking for a way to fit billions of lasers and other optical components atop a microscopic chip.
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Postdoctoral fellowships awarded by the Clements Center enable scholars to revise and polish their dissertations into book-length manuscripts while at SMU.
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In his Dedman College chemistry laboratory, Brent Sumerlin conducts research that could solve problems in the very different realms of health care and engineering.
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Research by SMU cultural anthropologist Victoria Lockwood will take her to the remote tropical islands of Tubuai and Rurutu this summer.
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The remains of Greek and Roman theatres, temples, bathhouses and roads in Israel have provided important clues to Mark Chancey about the transformation of Jewish culture during the 600-year Greco-Roman period (300 BCE to 300 CE).
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SMU’s geothermal energy team of faculty and graduate students is aiming to prevent the Northern Mariana Islands’ economic oblivion by helping to convert their volcanic heat into affordable, renewable energy.

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Understanding the market forces that drive environmental decisions is a vital yet
missing piece of public policy on natural resource management, says Santanu Roy, SMU professor of economics and 2007-08 Ford Research Fellow.
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Robert Harrod, assistant professor of biological sciences, and his research team study Werner syndrome enzyme link to HIV inhibition.
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Professor Rita Kirk and Assistant Professor Dan Schill developed the idea of giving voters a voice in network coverage through real-time response focus groups.
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