Phys.org Originally Posted: March 23, 2018 Victoria Farrar-Myers, quoted below in the March 23 article from Phys.org, is the Director of the Tower Scholars Program. The use of Facebook data to target voters has triggered global outrage with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But the concept is nothing new: Barack Obama made extensive use […]
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CNN Opinion Originally Posted: March 22, 2018 NFL player: What I saw in Honduras gives me hope for the global clean water crisis By Kelvin Beachum Jr. NFL player Kelvin Beachum Jr. with students from World Vision’s Agua Blanca project and peer-to-peer tutoring program in San Juan, Honduras in 2016. Editors note: “Kelvin Beachum Jr. is […]
International Business Times Originally Posted: March 22, 2018 large number of areas in Texas that have experienced oil production activities over a prolonged period of time are now becoming more and more destabilized. The land in these areas is “sinking and uplifting” at an alarming rate, according to a team of geophysicists from Southern Methodist […]
SMU Tower Center Blog Originally Posted: March 21, 2018 HCM Tower Scholar and Student Body President David Shirzad has dedicated his time at SMU to making the school a better place. He’s been a Peruna handler, a member of the Mob (a group of high-spirited students guaranteed tickets to men’s basketball games), a student representative […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: March 20, 2018 Analysis indicates decades of oil production activity have destabilized localities in an area of about 4,000 square miles populated by small towns, roadways and a vast network of oil and gas pipelines and storage tanks Two giant sinkholes near Wink, Texas, may just be the tip of the […]
SMU News Originally Posted: March 14, 2018 SMU alum Kelvin Beachum honored his former mentor Dennis Simon with a gift of $100,000 to the university to help fund the annual Civil Rights Pilgrimage. The trip has been renamed the Dennis Simon Endowed Civil Rights Pilgrimage as a tribute to the political science professor who guided […]
Date: March 22, 2018 Location: 126 Clements Hall Colloquium: 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm Coffee: 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Below is the information on our upcoming colloquium given by Dr. Jack Xin If you would like to meet with Dr. Jack Xin please sign up using the wiki page: https://wiki.smu.edu/display/MathSeminarWiki/Jack+Xin%2C+Department+of+Mathematics%2C+UC+Irvine “Non-convex Relaxation Methods in Data Science” Dr. […]
Texas Standard Originally Posted: March 19, 2018 “There’s thousands of people sitting in the Dallas County jail because they can’t pay for bail. And it’s not because they’re a threat to society, it’s not because they are dangerous to themselves or others, it’s because they’re poor.” LISTEN
Dallas Observer Originally Posted: March 19, 2018 Presuming Democrats don’t pull off a statewide upset, Texas’ November election is going to be about the small things. Lupe Valdez or Andrew White probably won’t beat Gov. Greg Abbott, and Beto O’Rourke, however charismatic, probably isn’t going to knock off Sen. Ted Cruz. Across the state, however, there […]
Bush Institute’s The Catalyst Originally Published: Winter 2018 edition The following by SMU Political Science Prof. James F. Hollifield, Director of the John Tower Center for Political Science, first appeared in the Winter 2018 edition of the Bush Institute’s The Catalyst, and he was interviewed on the subject by KERA public radio’s Think on March 8, 2018. For the last […]