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Save the Date: Nov 26, Celebration of Lights

Event date: November 26, 2018 Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Location: Dallas Hall Lawn Hosted by Student Foundation SMU’s Student Foundation welcomes the entire SMU and the surrounding community to Dallas Hall lawn to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season at Celebration of Lights. Enjoy a cup of hot cocoa and cider with warm […]

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How an SMU dinosaur hunter’s 72-million-year-old sea monster got to the Smithsonian

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: November 14, 2018 Three weeks before his team’s fossil finds go on display at one of the world’s most famous natural history museums, Louis Jacobs stands in a basement lab at Southern Methodist University sanding the lower jaw of a 72-million-year-old sea monster. His colleague Michael Polcyn sits nearby, dabbing […]

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Meet Benjamin Chi, Human Rights Fellow 2017-18

Dedman College News Originally Posted: November 9, 2018 By: Ryan Garrett In the 2017-18 academic year, SMU Human Rights Fellow Benjamin Chi fought to change the Texas Family Code, advocating for underage youth without guardians to give consent to their own medical care, which would allow them to attend school and improve public health. “Working […]

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Event: November 14, Math Colloquium: Difference-of-convex Learning: optimization with nonconvex sparsity functions.

Event Date: November 14 Location: 126 Clements Hall Time: 3:30 PM Miju Ahn Department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems (EMIS), Lyle School of Engineering, SMU Sparse learning involves building a robust and efficient model by incorporating sprasity functions in the optimization formulation to select significant variables to serve in the model. The first part of this talk […]

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November Knockout: Help Fight Hunger and Support the North Texas Food Bank

Bring your non-perishable goods and/or canned goods to Cindy Havens’ office, Suite 203, Dallas Hall.

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12 things to do in the D.C. area this week

Washington Post Originally Posted: November 5, 2018 New exhibit, with SMU ties, opens at the National Museum of Natural History this week in Washington, D.C. Excerpt below. ‘Sea Monsters Unearthed’ at National Museum of Natural History: Go back in time millions of years to the era of mosasaurs, also known as giant marine lizards (or, […]

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Event: Nov. 2, Mathematics Department Colloquium

Date: November 2, 2018 Location: Department of Mathematics, SMU Room: 126 Clements Hall Time: 3:30pm Alain Bensoussan, Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas Biosketch: Alain Bensoussan was a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (X1960) and doctor of mathematical sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of Paris under the direction of Jacques-Louis Lions. For more information contact: […]

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Event: Nov. 8, Asian Studies and Department of Art History Present: “In Search of a Home: Partition and the Lahore Collections of India” by Aparna Kumar

Event Date: 11/08/2018 Location: Fondren Science 152 Time: 5pm This presentation explores the impact of the partition of India in 1947 on the development of museological institutions in India and Pakistan. Central to this presentation are not only the physical ramifications of this process of division, which saw priceless artworks disassembled and destroyed, but also the […]

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Event: October 23, Interdisciplinary research and collaboration are the focus of the 2018 Prism Panel

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New Smithsonian Exhibit Reflects the Passion of SMU Professor and an Army of Student Fossil Hounds

SMU News Originally Posted: October 15, 2018 Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas opens Nov. 9 at National Museum of Natural History Once the exhibit opens, “Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas” will allow visitors to visually dive into the cool waters off the coast of West Africa as they existed […]