Event date: November 4, 2014 Event time: 5:00 p.m. Event location: Hughes Trigg Student Center, The Varsity Event Contact: Michelle Anderson Event Description: Are your electronic products fueling the deadliest war in the world? Find out about the issue of conflict minerals and the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative. Add your voice to the conversation! For more […]
Category: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
KERA Posted Oct. 20, 2014 …..As the Republican nominee in a red state, Patrick is the front-runner in this race. Southern Methodist University Political Science Professor Matthew Wilson believes if Patrick wins he would take his tea party values to the lieutenant governor’s office. “He’ll want to give these proposals a hearing before the senate. […]
Dallas Morning News By TAYLOR DANSER Neighborsgo tdanser@neighborsgo.com Published: 23 October 2014 08:25 AM Religious historian Charles L. Cohen will lecture on Jews and Muslims in Christian America at 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 100 of Southern Methodist University’s Hyer Hall. Cohen is the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions and director of the Lubar […]
D Magazine, November 2014 How Technology Is Helping Investors New tools are helping to put their money where their mouse is. There was a time when William Steding was like many investors, his eyes glued to CNBC as he made day trades facilitated by newly developed software. Over the last decade, though, Steding gradually came […]
USA Today Originally Posted: Oct. 17, 2014 Psychology majors explore different personality types, how humans develop, how we respond to our environment and why we behave the way that we do. A degree in this field of study can lead to careers in social work, marketing, human resources and public health programs, with more opportunities […]
Wednesday, October 29th 4:30-6:00pm Scholars’ Den (Clements Hall Basement) Questions? dca@smu.edu All Dedman College students and Professors are welcome to attend “Professors and Pumpkins” on Wednesday, October 29th. This is an opportunity for faculty and students to come together outside the classroom for a spooky evening of coffee and conversation. Come early for the pumpkin […]
Event date: 10/23/2014 Event time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Event Contact: Maddie Chardmchard@smu.edu Event Description: Meet and greet! Come get to know human rights majors and minors! For more information: www.smu.edu/humanrights
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Posted Oct. 21, 2014 WHEELING – Two geology professors do not expect to see a slowdown in Marcellus and Utica shale drilling just because the price of oil dropped from a recent high of $107 per barrel in May to $82.75 Monday. “Ten years ago, we thought $100 (per barrel) […]
The New Yorker Published Oct. 20, 2014 WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, by Ezra Greenspan (Norton). This biography of the most prolific black author of the Civil War era follows its subject from a slave farm in Missouri through a daring escape to freedom and a career as an abolitionist, writer, temperance advocate, and medical doctor. Born […]
Discovery Published Oct. 16, 2014 …”Gas hydrate is known to exist along the U.S. North Atlantic continental margin, with a very large province on Blake Ridge (north of the Bermuda Triangle),” Benjamin Phrampus, an Earth scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, told Live Science in an email. READ MORE