Sunday, March 27, 2022 l McCord Auditorium l 2:00-5:00pm In Her Shoes is an innovative art course where incarcerated women at the Dallas County jail reflect on where they’ve been, where they are, and where they hope to go. In Her Shoes is a “moving, authentic and realistic depiction of women in prison. Reveals the […]
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SMU News: SMU research could lead to treatment for common COVID side effect Adam Norris (rear), Floyd B. James Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at SMU, and graduate students Xiaoyu Liang and Canyon Calovich-Benne have determined that a gene linked to feeling touch may moonlight as an olfactory gene. Credit: SMU (Southern […]
Science News for Students: Researchers need to study how social and cultural factors affect addiction-related behaviors, psychology expert Priscilla Lui told Science News for Students. That will allow doctors to better tailor treatments. Risk factors, such as racism or income may point to which treatment might work best in particular individuals, she said. READ MORE
SMU News From answering pre-launch questions before a NASA mission to one of Saturn’s moons, to identifying hundreds of mostly “hidden” landslides on the U.S. West Coast, SMU professors and students fueled research with impact in 2021. Here are some of the Dedman College highlights. You can find the full list of SMU research accomplishments […]
KNUE: Everything is bigger in Texas – we know that. The food, the trucks, the pride…you get the idea. But we do have a concern (or two) out in West Texas that we really shouldn’t be that proud of. They’re called the Wink Sinks – two monstrous sinkholes out in Winkler County. For officials out […]
Dallas Morning News Krista Lynne Smith, an observational astrophysicist and assistant professor at SMU Dallas specializing in star formation in distant galaxies, for a commentary explaining how the proliferation of satellites in space threatens our ability to stargaze or conduct research: READ MORE
SMU News Researchers combined street-level investigations with SMU’s supercomputer power to reveal infrastructure deserts. Their study lays the groundwork for improving neighborhoods. Residents of a neglected corner of southeast Dallas daily navigate crumbling sidewalks, pothole-riddled streets and neglected intersections. Few trees shade their streets, and the lack of access to basic services like internet, health […]
The Atlantic A writer for The Atlantic wanted to change her personality. She contacted SMU’s Nathan Hudson to begin her transformation. Hudson is an assistant professor of psychology and has written many studies on personality change. One morning last summer, I woke up and announced, to no one in particular: “I choose to be happy today!” […]
NPR Podcast After getting his Ph.D., writer Jonathan Malesic struck out in this search for an academic job, so he took a position as a parking attendant across the street from his alma mater. He’s had a myriad of jobs since then but Malesic told NPR’s Michel Martin that he’s never been happier because he […]
SMU NEWS Elizabeth G. Loboa, SMU’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Zhong Lu, the Shuler-Foscue Chair in SMU’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed by their peers upon the […]