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Holiday Reading

Dedman College faculty and alumni help populate SMU’s holiday book list. Review and satisfy your gift list with stories ranging from historical to fictional to inspirational. CLICK HERE for more.

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First Day of Spring 2014 Classes

Friday, January 17 CLICK HERE for the academic calendar.

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December Commencement Convocation

Watch December Commencement Livestream Here!

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Mega Millions $586 million jackpot a super-long shot

Once merely astronomical, the odds of hitting the jackpot in tonight’s Mega Millions drawing for an estimated $586 million have climbed toward the impossible, bringing predictions of a $1 billion prize by Christmas. READ MORE

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Cal Jillson Comments on ObamaCare debacle in spotlight

The Hill: The disastrous rollout of ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges has brought into sharp focus the GOP charge that President Obama is better at campaigning than governing. READ MORE    

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SMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”

  SMU’s experimental physics group played a pivotal role in discovering the Higgs boson — the particle that proves the theory for which two scientists have received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. READ MORE

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Houston Chronicle: Bible courses a mixed bag in school

A new report by SMU religious studies expert Mark A. Chancey has received widespread coverage by the media. The report by Chancey, “Reading, Writing & Religion II,” found that most of the 60 public school districts in Texas that offer Bible study courses aren’t meeting a 2007 state law mandating that the courses be fair as well […]

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Thomas Hagstrom Named Ford Research Fellow

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Lisa Siraganian’s book shortlisted

Lisa Siraganian’s book Modernism’s Other Work: The Art Object’sPolitical Life (Oxford 2012), was shortlisted  for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, 2013.

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Dr. Atsushi Inoue Joins the Economics Department

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Atsushi Inoue to the Department of Economics as the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Professorship in Economics.  Dr. Inoue, who received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania in 1998, is one of the leading econometricians in the profession.  Dr. Inoue has published numerous papers in journals such as  Journal […]