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Faculty Awards and Recognition

Congratulations to the following faculty: Ken Hamilton: Living Legacy Award. At its annual meeting and virtual conference, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (the founders of Black History Month), presented Ken Hamilton with a Living Legacy Award. Priscilla Lui: Early career award and invited talk. Priscilla Lui (Psychology) was awarded […]

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Religion News Service Publishes Opinion Piece by SMU History Professor, Kathleen Wellman

Religion News Service Originally Posted: October 27, 2021 Kathleen Wellman, Dedman Family Distinguished Professor of History SMU Dallas, for a commentary critical of efforts by right-leaning Christian groups to inordinately influence curriculum to match a faith-based world view. Published in Religion News Service under the heading The right’s attacks on critical race theory are an attempt to hijack […]

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Dallas-Fort Worth is becoming the capitol of America’s heartland

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: September 19, 2021 By: Joel Kotkin and Cullum Clark, director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative and an economics professor at Southern Methodist University. This column is an adaptation of an article in City Journal. Located on the Southern Plains, far from America’s coasts and great river systems, the […]

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Dinosaurs once roamed the Arctic. What can they tell us about adapting to a changing climate?

Alaska Public Radio Originally Posted: October 8, 2021 Scientists are learning more about how dinosaurs adapted to the climate in Alaska. Studying what these prehistoric giants left behind may reveal clues to help better adapt to warming temperatures brought on by climate change. Lori Townsend discusses ongoing research with paleontologists Anthony Fiorillo and Patrick Druckenmiller. […]

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New landslides on US West Coast detected by SMU scientists

SMU News Originally Posted: September 27, 2021 Team of Dallas-based university researchers use satellite radar imagery to reveal hundreds of unseen landslides occurring in western states SMU geophysicists have used satellite imagery to identify more than 600 slow-moving landslides occurring near the U.S. West Coast. Fewer than 5% of these landslides in California, Oregon and Washington […]

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SMU-RTG Selected to Present at American Mathematical Society Conference

Dedman College News Originally Posted: September 29, 2021 Southern Methodist University Research Training Group (SMU-RTG) Principal Investigator and Department of Mathematics professor Alejandro Aceves will present at the annual American Mathematical Society Committee on Education conference October 1. The presentation will highlight the activities and accomplishments of SMU-RTG Fellows. The SMU Department of Mathematics was awarded a […]

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What’s So Great about The Great Plains?

Reviews in American History Originally Posted: September 2021 issue Clements Center director Andy Graybill finished a historiographical essay on Walter Prescott Webb’s The Great Plains (1931), which appeared in the September issue of Reviews in American History and will also as the introduction to a brand-new edition of Webb’s book due out in 2022 from […]

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The Future of Work Should Mean Working Less

New York Times Originally Posted: Sept. 26, 2021 By Jonathan Malesic, a first year Writing and Reasoning Program instructor in the SMU Department of English.  A dozen years ago, my friend Patricia Nordeen was an ambitious academic, teaching at the University of Chicago and speaking at conferences across the country. “Being a political theorist was my […]

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Department of Economics PH.D info session for undergraduate students

SMU Department of Economics Event: September 27 Time: 7:30-9PM Location: Zoom Dr. James Lake, the Director of Doctoral Programs & Professor of Economics at SMU will be hosting an Economics Ph.D. Info session virtually on Monday, September 27 from 7:30-9PM. Please see the flyer below for more information. All majors are welcome to attend.

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2020 and 2021 Faculty Career Achievement Award Celebration

SMU News Originally Posted: September 12, 2021 This week, President Turner and Provost Loboa welcomed community members and distinguished guests to a ceremony honoring Dr. Caroline Brettell, University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and Dr. Tom Fomby, Professor of Economics as the 2020 and 2021 recipients of SMU’s Faculty Career Achievement Award.  The Faculty Career Achievement […]