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A Conversation with Lupe Valdez

Event Date: Thursday September 19, 2019 Location: The Promenades, Hughes-Trigg Center Time:7:00-8:00 The Women’s and Gender Studies Program invites you to join us for a conversation with Lupe Valdez. Come hear more about the life and projects of the first Latina sheriff and one of the first LGBTQ elected officials in the US.

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‘Titans in a jar’ could answer key questions ahead of NASA’s space exploration

Science Daily Originally Posted: July 3, 2019 Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn’s icy moon — Titan — has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter. NASA announced in late June that its “Dragonfly” mission would launch toward […]

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How do we get so many different types of neurons in our brain?

SMU Research Originally Posted: September 5, 2019 New SMU study may provide insight on how our brains are able to produce so many different types of neurons, which control everything we do DALLAS (SMU) – SMU (Southern Methodist University) researchers have discovered another layer of complexity in gene expression, which could help explain how we’re […]

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Mickey’s Wild Ride

SMU News Originally Posted: September 8, 2019 Mickey Dollens ’11 majored in English with a creative writing specialization and minored in psychology. If you look at the arc of Mickey Dollens’ life so far, you can almost feel the syncopated rhythm of the opportunities he embraced and the hard knocks he survived. His story starts […]

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Statistical Science

In Memorium: Ke Wang

Ke Wang (1978 – 2019) was a native of mainland China. Ke received his Ph.D. in  2012 from the Department of Statistical Science at SMU under the direction of Profession Sherry Wang. His dissertation work, titled “Estimating Cumulative Distribution Functions from JPS Data with Empty Strata and Analyzing High-Throughput Data via Hierarchical Bayesian Spatial Modeling”, […]

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Listen: A Better Place In A Warming World

KERA Originally Posted: September 3, 2019 In the discussions about how to mitigate climate change, two important factors are largely ignored: migration and trade. Southern Methodist University professor Klaus Desmet talks to host Krys Boyd about the importance of strategizing long term solutions for commerce and conservation, which he writes about in The Catalyst. LISTEN

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Jill. E. Kelly, South Africa: How a chief defied apartheid and upheld democracy for the good of his people

The Conversation Originally Posted: August 20, 2019 By: Jill E. Kelly, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University Disclosure statement Jill E. Kelly’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (2015) and Fulbright (2010-2011, 2018-2019). The recently released report of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s advisory panel on land reform, and the latest efforts […]

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Sept. 11: NSF-RTG and Department of Mathematics Research Colloquium

  Wednesday, September 11, 2019  Opportunities for student collaborations with UTSW Neuroscience  Julian Meeks, Brad Pfeiffer, and Wei Xu Department of Neuroscience University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Abstract: Starting this year, an NSF RTG (Research Training Grant) will fund the development of three vertically-integrated research training groups, each of which partners SMU mathematicians with scientists […]

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A Story About El Paso and Soccer That You Should Read

D Magazine Originally Posted: August 16, 2019 You might recognize the name Roberto José Andrade Franco. He’s a Ph.D. candidate at SMU who has written a few stories for D Magazine. Roberto is from El Paso. He was there when a North Texas man killed 22 people in a Walmart. At the time, Roberto had […]

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First people in the Americas came by sea, ancient tools unearthed by Idaho river suggest

Science Magazine Originally Posted: August 30, 2019 About 16,000 years ago, on the banks of a river in western Idaho, people kindled fires, shaped stone blades and spearpoints, and butchered large mammals. All were routine activities in prehistory, but their legacy today is anything but. The charcoal and bone left at that ancient site, now […]