Event Date: December 7, 2015 Event Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Owen Arts Center 2020 Elizabeth Margulis, Professor and Director of the Music Congnition Lab at the University of Arkansas will examine the interface between science and music by using a series of recent experiments in the Music Cognition Lab. For more information, please visit http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
Event date: December 7, 2015 Event time: 12:15 p.m. Location: Heroy Hall 153 An Event with Jonathan Koehler, Professor of Law, Northwestern University In recent years, forensic scientists in some areas have been taken to task for over claiming, failing to test their assumptions, and neglecting to explain to judges and jurors how the risk of […]
SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: November 19, 2015 Tucked away in one of the many lecture rooms inside Heroy Hall, full of professors but lacking in students, was a lecture presented by acclaimed scientist Roger Malina. The lecture was hosted by the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute on Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. and centered on […]
Event date: November 18th Event time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Heroy Hall 153 Roger Malina, founder of the UT Dallas ArtSciLab, which explores the gap between data generation and representation, will present his work with neuroscientists, astronomers, and geoscientists. He will also talk about the new born “digital hybrids” whose existence give lie to the “two cultures” […]
Daily Campus Originally Posted: October 20, 2015 Society should trust science because it’s a long, time-tested process of accumulated expertise, Harvard University Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D said Thursday night. Speaking at the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute’s annual Allman Family Lecture, Oreskes explained that some of society’s misconceptions of science exist […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: October 28, 2015 Well, they’ve been an awkward mismatch, off and on, since the age of Galileo. And if scientific achievements have created better lives for us with, say, antibiotics and vaccines, it’s hard to make the same claim for the political consequences of bigger bombs and better guns. It’s […]
Inside Higher Ed Originally Posted: October 27, 2015 Is true interdisciplinary work becoming more common, or is it simply a buzzword — or, perhaps worse, a trumped-up name for flexible academic labor? That’s what a group of graduate students at Southern Methodist University wanted to know, so they took what data were available to them […]
Date: November 5th Time: 5:00 p.m. Reception, 5:30 p.m. Panel Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall Why have we moved from, “I don’t fully understand the science, but I trust the scientists.” to, “I don’t fully understand the science and I don’t trust the scientists to be honest about it.”? Join us for a panel discussion with […]
Event date: October 20, 2015 Event time: 3:00 PM The 1971 release of Bruce Lee’s film, The Big Boss, inaugurated a frenzy of martial arts appreciation across the globe. What was it about Lee’s films and others in the genre that spoke to Tanzanians? And who exactly responded to the call? As Tanzanians appropriated these films […]