Date: February 18-20, 2023 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Times: 8:00 a.m. – 10.00 p.m. CST Sa/Su 8:00 a.m – 8.00 p.m. CST Mo Contact: Elfi Kraka, ekraka@smu.edu Download the Conference Program The 28th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics at Dallas (ASMD@D) takes place on the beautiful SMU campus from February 18-20, 2023. The […]
Category: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
SMU News – Founded in 1978, the Children’s Brain Diseases Foundation was originally created to raise money to fight Batten disease, a mysterious brain condition. Today, the foundation is managed by three family members, including Dean Rider, II, a gastroenterologist practicing in San Francisco, and Dean Rider, III, a political science major at SMU and member […]
SMU News – Stuyvie Coleman ’21 seeks to bring hope and healing to students struggling with addiction and mental health. His personal quest is changing hearts and opening wallets – while saving lives. By outward appearances, Stuyvie Coleman seemed to be living a normal, cheerful life as a first-year student. He played lacrosse, cultivated friendships […]
Event Date: 02/07/2023 Time: 3-5 pm Location: Hawn Conference Room, Hamon Arts Library In collaboration with SMU’s 8th Annual International Film Festival, we invite all members of the SMU community (students, faculty and staff) to join us at 3 pm for a roundtable on “Women in Film” with documentary filmmaker Summer Minerva, Prof. Britta Hanson […]
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 […]
NPR – It’s the end of a long day of cooking and serving customers at Nicaraguita-Mex restaurant in Dallas. Jimmy Salmeron and a couple of workers are sweeping, washing dishes and scraping grease and food off a grill. Here you can find a number of Nicaraguan favorites — Baho, Nacatamales and Chanco con Yuca. Salmeron, […]
SMU News – While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)— scientists discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest […]
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 […]
SMU News- The dominant tree species belonged within the legume family, which includes beans, peas, and giant trees in tropical forests. “We have estimated the lake beds that contain the fossils were present for about 50,000 to 60,000 years,” said Bonnie Jacobs, an emeritus professor and paleobotanist at SMU (Southern Methodist University) and a co-author […]
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 […]