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SMU’s May 14 Commencement celebrates academic achievement
SMU News Originally Posted: May 3, 2016 SMU will celebrate the academic accomplishments of more than 2,500 students at its 101st annual Commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in Moody Coliseum. Guests are urged to arrive early as seating in the coliseum is limited to four guests per student. Additional seating will be […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: April 26, 2016 For Texas electricity customers, geothermal energy is pretty much an afterthought. But some scientists — and even some people in the oil and gas business — say that heat from deep underground may become a significant source of power. At least, that’s the message at a conference […]
SMU NEWS Originally Posted: April 22, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – SMU’s renowned Geothermal Lab will host its eighth international energy conference April 25-26 on the Dallas campus, focused on using the oilfield as a base for alternative energy production through the capture of waste heat and fluids. In addition to oil and gas field geothermal […]
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Associate dean for General Education addresses questions about UC-2016
SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: April 16, 2016 By: Peter Moore, associate dean, General Education Let me take a moment to address the issues Noah Bartos raised in his editorial regarding UC-2016. Noah is rightly concerned about the potential headaches various groups will face regarding two very similar curricula (UC-2012 and UC-2016). We are too. […]
Washington Post Originally Posted: March 28, 2016 Earthquakes are a natural hazard — except when they’re man-made. The oil and gas industry has aggressively adopted the technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to shatter subsurface shale rock and liberate the oil and gas lurking there. But the process results in tremendous amounts of chemical-laden […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: March 23, 2016 NASA data leads to rare discovery: Earth’s moon wandered off axis billions of years ago A new study published today in Nature reports discovery of a rare event — that Earth’s moon slowly moved from its original axis roughly 3 billion years ago. Planetary scientist Matthew Siegler at […]
Think GeoEnergy Originally Posted: March 3, 2016 Utilizing geothermal energy in oil & gas fields could expand the geothermal sector dramatically and is the key topic of the annual Power Plays conference organized by SMU in Texas. Here we talk with Maria Richards on SMU, the conference and her view on geothermal energy in oil […]
The Register Herald Originally Posted: February 28, 2016 There’s thermal energy in them hills! Well, under them hills. West Virginia is sitting on the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States, so scientist say. Scientists believe the Mountain State sits on several hot patches of earth, some scorching hot as 200 degrees Celsius, […]
Tech Insider Originally Posted: February 22, 2016 Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, an anomalous and perplexing natural wonder lies: A raging river that boils. Once just the stuff of folklore, geophysicist Andrés Ruzo, a PhD student at Southern Methodist University, set out to find the legendary waterway himself. He not only found […]