What will you support at SMU? Make a gift on March 7, 2017, and be a part of Mustangs Give Back, our annual one-day giving challenge. Here are some of the Dedman College projects on the #MustangsGiveBack list: Bring International Film Festival to Campus: SMU’s spring international film festival brings the best of foreign cinema to campus. Films from […]
Year: 2017
SMU Forum Originally Posted: March 6, 2017 SMU’s Department of Chemistry seeks to meet a high demand for well-trained computational and theoretical chemistry professionals with a new doctoral program. The department is now accepting applications for its Ph.D. program in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. The four-year, 66-unit degree offers “an intensive and success-oriented education in computational and theoretical chemistry, with […]
Tower Center Blog Originally Posted: March 3, 2017 The Tower Center sat down with Senior Kate Moody, class of 2017, to discuss her research project on the cost of the death penalty in Dallas County. Moody is majoring in human rights and international studies, with minors in Spanish and Public Policy and International Affairs as […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: March 1, 2017 NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect reaction to the study. North Texas is at the heart of a new scientific mystery: Where did all the earthquakes go? Quakes that started rattling the area around Dallas in 2008 came to a virtual halt last year, according […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: March 1, 2017 The word is out: Willard Spiegelman, Southern Methodist University’s distinguished Hughes Professor of English, is selling his Dallas condo and moving full time to New York and Connecticut. Spiegelman — author, editor, educator, raconteur — has also long been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and […]
Event Date: March 8, 2017 Location: Caruth Hall 314 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM The Scientific Computation (CSC) spring workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization usage. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction to Research Computing” workshop […]
Take Two Originally Posted: February 15, 2017 According to estimates out by Pew Research, L.A. and Orange Counties are home to over 1 million people living here illegally. Nationwide, the number is around 11 million. But digging into the data yields some interesting facts, says James Hollifield. He directs the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University in […]
Fox4 Originally Posted: February 22, 2017 Dr. Robert Kehoe, Professor of Physics, is a special guest on Fox4 News. The Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in an area called the habitable zone, where liquid water is […]
DMagazine Originally Posted: March, 2017 These conservationists are on the front lines of a battle to save the Trinity River landscape. Tim Dalbey An archaeologist and paleontologist, Dalbey has studied the Great Trinity Forest for more than two decades. Of particular interest is the area around Big Spring. Dalbey, who earned his doctorate from SMU, […]