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Governor’s race has gone messy, and it’s only January

  “Davis and Abbott are accomplished people with a lot to offer,” wrote SMU professor Cal Jillson. “But we’re having a difficult time tuning out the noise so we can hear them.” READ MORE

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First dinosaur bones in Saudi Arabia discovered

Louis Jacobs, a vertebrate palaeontologist and professor at Southern Methodist University, explains that the discovery could also help find much sought-after answers about the history of the Earth and its land formations. READ HERE

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The Origins of Archaic State Society in Ancient Hawaii

February 6. 4:30pm.  Heroy Hall 153 Dr. Mark D. McCoy is a landscape archaeologist whose research is aimed at bringing together multiple lines of evidence to understand the emergence of social complexity. In his career, he has published 22 peer-reviewed journal articles dealing with a broad range of topics from the dynamic relationship between people […]

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Trading Networks with Bilateral Contracts

February 7, 2-3:30pm. Umphrey Lee 303. Alex Teytelboym from Harvard University will present his recent research on bilateral contracts. His interest lies in settings where economic agents are viewed as being part of a network (e.g. supply chains). He specifies a new notion of whether the links between economic agents constitute a “network equilibrium” and […]

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Spanking Research Changes Parents’ Attitudes

New studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, found that parents who favored spanking, later significantly altered their views after they were briefly exposed to the research findings, said child psychologist George Holden. A professor in the SMU Department of Psychology, Holden led the studies, which have been published online http://bit.ly/LTUlch.

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Etisalat Prize for Literature Announces 2013 Shortlist

Congratulations to SMU Department of English alum, NoViolet Bulawayo–recently shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature! READ MORE

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Demographic Changes and their Political Impact

Tower Center Forum Event – January 30. 6-8pm READ MORE

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Dedman College Students Work With Bush Institute, Zambians To Improve Women’s Health Care

SMU Magazine Fall/Winter 2014 Different Lives, Same Purpose Tyrell Russell, a sophomore Hunt Leadership Scholar from Riviera Beach, Florida, planned on taking an organic chemistry course over the summer. Instead, he embarked on “the trip of a lifetime” with fellow SMU students Katie Bernet, Melanie Enriquez and Prithvi Rudrappa. In June they met up with a group […]

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Dedman College student Rahfin Faruk writes about MLK’s dream debate

In 1935, Southern Methodist University, an all-white university with ties to the Dallas elite, declined to debate Wiley College, a historically black college made famous in The Great Debaters. Seventy-four years later, in 2009, SMU held up its end of the bargain and debated Wiley College. Since 2009, the schools’ debate teams have argued regularly over […]

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SMU and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Partner to Offer New Ph.D. in Biostatistics

We are pleased to announce a new Ph.D. program in Biostatistics offered in partnership between the Department of Statistical Science at SMU and the Department of Clinical Sciences at UTSW. The Ph.D. program in Biostatistics will be launched in the Fall 2014 semester, and applications are currently being accepted for admission into the program. READ […]