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New publication by the Harrod Lab

SMU News Originally Posted: June 23, 2021 Research reveals inhibiting TIGAR enhances the susceptibility of HPV+ cancer cells to chemotherapy drugs that induce oxidative stress [Yapindi et al. 2021, J Antivirals & Antiretrovirals 13(3), in press]. READ MORE

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Economics professor and campus leader Tom Fomby receives SMU Faculty Career Achievement Award

SMU News Originally Posted: June 21, 2021 SMU’s Tom Fomby, Professor of Economics in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, is the 2021 recipient of the Faculty Career Achievement Award for his contributions to the teaching, scholarship and service missions of the University. Fomby will be recognized by the SMU Board of Trustees this fall. “I am truly honored to have […]

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Ten years of ancient genome analysis has taught scientists ‘what it means to be human’

SMU News Originally Posted: June 17, 2021 A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just over a decade ago. The hair, which was preserved in arctic permafrost in Greenland, was collected in the 1980s and stored at a […]

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TODAY: Understanding and Promoting Minority Mental Health: Virtual Reality, Community-engaged Focus Groups, and Beyond… With Dr. Pricilla Lui, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm REGISTER HERE Harold Simmons 117 or by Zoom. Dr. Lui conducts research on minority mental health and health disparities.She is interested in how people from diverse sociocultural backgrounds make sense of the world, and how their lived experiences associated with culture, ethnicity, and race affect their psychopathology and addictive behaviors.Using a social […]

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The mysterious muon could point physicists to a scientific revolution

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: June 13, 2021 One of my favorite quotes about science comes not from a practicing scientist but from a comedian, Dara O’Briain. He brilliantly summarized the whole point of science and how it makes progress: “Science knows it doesn’t know everything, otherwise it would just stop.” Physicists, those scientists who […]

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Congratulations to Bonnie Wheeler

Dedman College News Originally Posted: June 1, 2021 Bonnie Wheeler, Associate Professor of English and Director of Medieval Studies received the Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies at the 2021 Virtual Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, the International Arthurian Society—North American Branch. This award was in recognition of Bonnie’s extensive editorial work […]

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Opinion: Rituals can guide us in our post-pandemic worlds

Austin American Citizen Originally Posted: May 29, 2021 Jill DeTemple, religious studies professor at SMU Dallas, for a piece advocating how rituals can help individuals and communities navigate their post-pandemic worlds. Published in the Austin American-Statesman with the heading Rituals can guide us in our post-pandemic worlds: https://bit.ly/3yVA1zi About a week ago, at the top of the stairs […]

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SMU professor receives NASA funding to study distant galaxies built around massive black holes

SMU News Originally Posted: May 18, 2021 DALLAS (SMU) – Krista Lynne Smith, an assistant professor of physics at SMU, has received a grant from NASA to study one of the most extreme objects in the universe – Active Galactic Nuclei. These objects, called AGN for short, are galaxies with a central supermassive black hole feeding on gas from what’s called an […]

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AHA Member Spotlight: JOHN R. CHÁVEZ

Perspectives on History Originally Posted: May 25, 2021 John R. Chávez is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University. He lives in Garland, Texas, and has been a member since 2001. Website: smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/History/People/FacultyStaff/JohnRC Alma maters: BA (English), California State University, Los Angeles, 1971; BA (Spanish), California State University, Los Angeles, 1975; MA (English), California State […]

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New duck-billed dinosaur species discovered in Japan

The Hill Originally Posted: April 27, 2021 A new type of duck-billed dinosaur has been identified on one of Japan’s southern islands. In 2004, an amatuer fossil hunter found the preserved lower jaw, teeth, neck vertebrae, shoulder bone and tail vertebra in an approximately 72-million-year-old layer of sediment on Japan’s Awaji island. The fossil was […]