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SMU Giving Day is March 7

Let’s help shape a brighter future for Dedman College students! Visit the Dedman College Giving Day Page: https://givingday.smu.edu/pages/dedman-college/?appeal_id=63fe445f7b2a06205282d747 The featured Dedman College funds are listed below: Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Anthropology Student Seminar Room Center for Presidential History Dean’s Research Council Dedman College Scholars Dedman College Research and Advanced Studies Department of Political Science Department of World […]

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Identity—not income—drives desire to secede, according to a model created by SMU economist Klaus Desmet and other researchers

Phys.org – What most sparks a region’s desire to seek independence from their country—income or identity? A new study from SMU (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and UC3M (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) found that the group people identify with tends to play a bigger factor in secession than differences in per capita income between […]

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Environment Can’t Wait for Agreement on a Carbon Tax

Inside Sources –  Klaus Desmet, economics professor at SMU Dallas along with co-authors Bruno Conte (economics University of Bologna) and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (economics University of Chicago), for an op-ed advocating for a research-tested carbon tax system that could work in the U.S. and European Union. Published in Inside Sources under the heading Environment Can’t Wait […]

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2022 Dedman College Research Round Up

Dedman College News- Here are some of the Dedman College 2022 research highlights. For the full article please visit SMU News: A study led by fire anthropologist Christopher Roos suggests bringing “good fire” back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today’s […]

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Identity, not income, drives desire to secede

SMU News – A new study from SMU (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and UC3M (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) found that the group people identify with tends to play a bigger factor in secession than differences in per capita income between regions. Identity was shown to be a larger factor than income for many […]

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Happy Holidays

SMU will be closed for the holiday from December 23 to January 2. Enjoy your break and see you in the new year.

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Congratulations to the December Graduates

December Commencement is Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. in Moody Coliseum. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. To see all the details for Commencement weekend, including a link to the ceremony live stream, visit here on our website.

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Myths, Facts, and the Qualified Case for College

The Catalyst Essay by J.H. Cullum Clark, Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative The case for earning a postsecondary degree is as strong as ever for most young people – and so is the case for renewing America’s commitment to expanding college access. Reaching higher college attainment levels requires dismantling barriers to opportunity […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing all of our SMU family and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. SMU will be closed November 24-25. 

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Armstrongs commit $5 million to endow dean position

SMU – A $5 million gift from entrepreneurs Elisabeth Martin Armstrong ’82 and William D. Armstrong ’82 will further the academic and research excellence of the SMU Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences by endowing the school’s dean position, renaming it the Elisabeth Martin Armstrong Dean. Through their gift, the Armstrongs will support Dedman College’s future-focused leadership […]