NPR Originally Posted: July 13, 2015 This summer there’s been an intense debate surrounding the Confederate flag and the legacy of slavery in this country. In Texas that debate revolves around new textbooks that 5 million students will use when the school year begins next month. The question is, are students getting a full and […]
Month: July 2015
Literary expert Thomas DiPiero, dean of SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, offers his nationally respected insight into Harper Lee’s iconic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” during a University Park Public Library-SMU Community Outreach event June 18, 2015, in Dallas. July 11, 2015, marks the 55th anniversary of the publication of Lee’s great American […]
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DALLAS (SMU) – Before he became diplomat-in-residence and adjunct professor of political science with SMU’s John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, Robert Jordan served from 2001-03 as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. When Jordan was first nominated to the posting, it was a time of peace. By the time he assumed the job, terrorists […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: July 6, 2015 Doug Miller was a Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America in 2014-2015 Dallas’ Urban Inter-Tribal Center: A place for health and trust The back room of the Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas looks more like a shoe store in the mall than a health […]
Fortune Magazine Originally Posted: June 30, 2015 Chris Christie 2016: Should a bully be president? For presidents, success is most often achieved not by pummeling opponents into submission but by schmoozing instead. Of all of the printable words used to describe Chris Christie—bold, brash, boisterous—bully might be mentioned the most. The Republican New Jersey governor […]
SMU Adventures Updated: July 6, 2015 Christopher Kiahtipes is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. His work includes reconstructing past environments in tropical Central Africa to better understand the links between culture, ecology and climate. He is spending part of the summer in Europe to present his research […]
WFAA Originally Posted: July 6, 2015 DALLAS —At Dallas City Hall, they’re stringing cable and installing video cameras. The city is investing $2.5 million in new equipment that will broadcast city government to a wider audience. Before now, many committee meetings were not televised, and none were archived for easy public access. Now — after […]
Texas Public Radio Originally Posted: July 2, 2015 Many problems still exist in how Texas adopts its school textbooks say critics. Reforming the process failed to gain traction in the state’s 84th legislative session. The troubles have been well documented by Texas journalists over the past 10 years and even some documentarians got in on […]
Inside Science Originally posted: June 30, 2015 The subatomic muon could reveal potentially disastrous pipe corrosion. By: Charles Q. Choi, Contributor (Inside Science) — Of all the parts of the nation’s infrastructure that one might want least to fail, nuclear power plants might rank the highest. U.S. nuclear power plants are on average more than […]