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Event: Feb. 9, Dr. Bennetta Jules-Rosette Presents “Joséphine Baker: From the Music Hall to the Mausoleum”

Event Date: 02/09/2022 Time: 7:30PM Location: The Chamber in Hughes-Trigg The Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Women and LGBT Center, and the World Language and Literatures Program are hosting Dr. Bennetta Jules-Rosette in a discussion of Joséphine Baker’s life. Jermisha Frazier with SMU’s Women and LGBT Center will be moderating the event, and attendees are welcome to […]

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Event: March 4-5, 2022 Finite Element Rodeo

Dedman College News The SMU Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that it will host the 2022 Finite Element Rodeo March 4-5. The event brings together researchers and students interested in the implementation and theory of finite element methods for various applications. Learn more and register here: https://people.smu.edu/sxu/2022-smu-fe-rodeo/ 

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Event: Feb. 7, Joséphine Baker: The Story of an Awakening, Film Screening

Event Date: 02/07/2022 Time: 6:30PM Location: The Chamber in Hughes-Trigg The Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Women and LGBT Center, and the World Language and Literatures Program are hosting a screening of the film Joséphine Baker: The Story of an Awakening. Free popcorn and candy will be provided at the Chamber in Hughes-Trigg. The […]

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Listen: The gender gap: Nature or nurture?

VOX Klaus Desmet interviewed by Tim Phillips Are the differences between what men and women like decided at birth, or do we learn to prefer different things? Klaus Desmet tells Tim Phillips about new research that investigates global patterns in 45,397 Facebook interests. Read more and download the free DP behind this podcast: Cuevas Rumin, […]

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Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?

Dallas Observer If you’re getting that crowded feeling right now, it’s not your imagination. It’s economics. A 2021 article published in the magazine City Journal says Dallas has the fourth highest growth rate of inbound migration. The city’s growth rate is also well above the national average with a population surge that’s “almost three times faster than […]

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Dedman Faculty Win Prestigious Teaching Awards

Dedman College News Congratulations to the following Dedman College faculty: Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award Hervé Tchumkam, Associate Professor of French, Department of World Languages and Literatures President’s Associate Award Alex Lippert, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry   Golden Mustang Award Gianna Englert, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Opinion: America should honor MLK’s vision by halting the death penalty

Dallas Morning News By Rick Halperin, director of the SMD Dallas Human Rights Program On Monday the nation will pause, perhaps too briefly, to remember and pay tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., arguably the leading U.S. (and global) civil and human rights activist who was the voice of reason and conscience during […]

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How historians view Trump – and how Trump sees himself

CBS News There’s at least one thing that Donald Trump’s critics and supporters can agree on about his presidency, according to Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University: “He came in to be a disrupter, and of all of his accomplishments, I think it’s very easy to say that he accomplished […]

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Are We All Really Burning Out?

Chronicle of Higher Education Academic burnout is real — but difficult to diagnose. By Jonathan Malesic I dreamed of being a college professor almost as soon as I met my own professors. They read strange books by Nietzsche and Annie Dillard, asked challenging questions in class, and wore tweed. One of my favorite professors taught theology […]

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New Technology Mapping Landslides Can Save Lives, Mitigate Damage

Inside Sources Originally Posted: January 3, 2022 by Zhong Lu, Yuankun Xu It’s that time of year on the West Coast when emergency managers prepare for a host of catastrophic weather events — everything from Pineapple Express systems that dump intense rains on the regions to the flooding and landslides that often follow. Landslides are […]