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‘When Life Strikes the White House’: SMU Tower Center symposium examines effects of personal crises on U.S. presidencies

SMU continues its schedule of events observing the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination with a symposium exploring the effects of personal crises on a presidential administration. READ MORE

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Embrey Human Rights Program to Honor Human Rights Defenders With $30,000 in Prizes

DALLAS (SMU) — SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program will award the first Triumph of the Spirit Award and $25,000 to a person who has dedicated his or her life to social justice and human rights issues on a local, national or global scale. A related award and $5,000 will go to a human rights defender in the […]

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PhD Student Receives an Outstanding Poster Award and is Published in Retrovirology

Congratulations to Robert Harrod, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences! The abstract from his PhD graduate student, Megan Romeo’s poster at the 16th International Conference on Human Retroviruses held in Montreal has been published in the journal Retrovirology. Megan also received an Outstanding Poster Award at the meeting. Read Megan Romeo’s poster abstract here: Published mtg abstract

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CATCO’s Austin Symposium

Event: 25th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics at Dallas, March 1-4, 2014 ASMD@D 2014 will begin on Saturday, March 1. There will be more than 100 plenary and invited lectures and two poster sessions in the time from Saturday to Tuesday evening. The Symposium Banquet with lecture and presentation of the ASMD@D prices […]

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Chemistry Department Announces Spring Seminar Series

February 7 at 3:00 p.m. in FOSC 152: Dr. Bruce Lipshutz March 21 at 3:00 p.m. in FOSC 152:  Dr. Erik Berda March 28 at 3:00 p.m. in FOSC 152: Dr. Junmei Wang April 11 at 3:00 p.m. in FOSC 152: Dr. Jin Wang April 25 at 3:00 p.m. in FOSC 152: Dr. Roberto Bogomolni For More Information

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Stanton Sharp Lecture Series

Event- February 12. 6 pm in McCord Auditorium “Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa” Presented by Mark Hunter, Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal READ […]

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The Presidents and Their Crises

Event- February 18-19 Time: The program begins the evening of Feb. 18 with a focus on John Kennedy, while the all-day seminar on Feb. 19 will examine Kennedy and 12 other presidents. Location: Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and SMU Crum Auditorium Registration/RSVP: Details on registration and the events can be found at http://blog.smu.edu/towercenter/events/lifestrikespresiden/ The symposium is a two-day […]

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The Origins of Archaic State Society in Ancient Hawaii

February 6. 4:30pm.  Heroy Hall 153 Dr. Mark D. McCoy is a landscape archaeologist whose research is aimed at bringing together multiple lines of evidence to understand the emergence of social complexity. In his career, he has published 22 peer-reviewed journal articles dealing with a broad range of topics from the dynamic relationship between people […]

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Trading Networks with Bilateral Contracts

February 7, 2-3:30pm. Umphrey Lee 303. Alex Teytelboym from Harvard University will present his recent research on bilateral contracts. His interest lies in settings where economic agents are viewed as being part of a network (e.g. supply chains). He specifies a new notion of whether the links between economic agents constitute a “network equilibrium” and […]

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Etisalat Prize for Literature Announces 2013 Shortlist

Congratulations to SMU Department of English alum, NoViolet Bulawayo–recently shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature! READ MORE