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Cal Jillson, political science professor, Rick Perry tries for positive spin on indictment

Business Insider….. Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said Perry has a brief chance to reintroduce himself. If Perry goes to trial, voters will see a parade of Perry operatives discuss the deal-making surrounding the veto. “It will show how ugly it is to see the political sausage made,” […]

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Lecture on cultural dynamics and the origins of the Egyptian civilization

Event: Friday, September 5, Dedman Life Sciences Building RM 131,  5-6pm Fekri Hassan, Professor Emeritus, Petrie Professor of Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at the University College London from 1994 – 2008, will lecture on cultural dynamics and the origins of the Egyptian civilization. Dr. Hassan will discuss how cultivation of domesticated cereals (grains) […]

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English Department Announces Fall 2014 Doctoral Lecture Series

The Doctoral Lecture series features presentations by our graduate students who are finishing their dissertations this year. In these 30-minute presentations, the Ph.D. candidate will outline the scope of his or her dissertation project and demonstrate a focused reading of a text or texts that exemplifies the best work in the dissertation. After a presentation […]

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SMU seismologists, Texas Railroad Commission OKs new rules for injection wells

Star Telegram- State agency OKs new rules for injection wells …Southern Methodist University researchers said this year that they had detected more than 300 quakes large enough to be recorded by multiple seismic monitors the school has deployed in the Azle area. The Geological Survey has recorded 27 in the area by the U.S. Geological Survey, […]

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Political Science Professor Matthew Wilson on Wendy Davis’ TV ad

KERA….Davis’ ad is a dramatization of an event in 1993. A vacuum cleaner salesman offering in-home demonstrations rapes a young mother while her two children sleep in a nearby room. “The salesman was a sexual predator on probation but the Kirby Vacuum Cleaner distributor had failed to perform a routine background check on him,” the […]

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George Holden, Psychology, a call for paradigm shifts in preventing and treating child abuse

New ways to protect kids A conference co-sponsored by APA and the American Bar Association calls for paradigm shifts in preventing and treating child abuse. By Rebecca A. Clay July/August 2014, Vol 45, No. 7 Print version: page 30 …Understanding child maltreatment Family violence is rampant in our society, said George W. Holden, PhD, a […]

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Ron Wetherington, Anthropology Professor, challenges Dallas-based institute out to prove biblical version of creation

Dallas Morning News… Dallas researchers out to scientifically prove biblical version of creation Most scientists believe Darwin got it right: Single-celled creatures evolved into complex ones, a process of natural selection and genetic adaptation that over eons turned a primordial swamp into shape-shifting cells, into ape-like primates, into people. His theory is taught in virtually […]

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Political Science Professor quoted in Time

….“Governor Perry’s public relations strategy is to present this indictment as one blow, low and foul, in an ongoing fight between a disgraced, partisan, Democratic, district attorney and a Republican governor fighting for common decency, the rule of law, and the sanctity of the Texas Constitution,” said Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist […]

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Engaged Learning Expo scheduled for August 27

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Graduate student reception scheduled for September 25