Category: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: April 4, 2019 About 120 million years ago, flocks of small dinosaurs bounded from plant to plant in an open floodplain southwest of what is now Fort Worth. They stood on two legs as they foraged for leaves and shoots. The smallest hatchlings were about the length of your hand, […]
Dallas Business Journal Originally Posted: April 4, 2019 Luisa del Rosal, executive director of the SMUMission Food Texas-Mexico Center, is quoted in this Dallas Business Journal article. Call it USMCA, NAFTA Redux, NAFTA 2.0, or “The Trade Agreement formerly known as NAFTA.” You can even call it by its name: The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. But […]
NBC 5 Originally Posted: April 2, 2019 WATCH: SMU Associate Professor of Economics James Lake talks with NBC 5 about the possible economic impacts of a possible US/Mexico border shutdown. (Credit: NBC 5 Staff) https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Economic-Impact-of-Possible-Border-Shutdown_Dallas-Fort-Worth-508017132.html
Dedman College News Originally Posted: April 3, 2019 Dr. Ernest Jouriles will be a featured speaker at the National Discussion on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in Annapolis, Maryland, April 4-5. The two day collaborative forum focuses on America’s colleges, universities, and service academies and is hosted by the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the […]
KERA Originally Posted: April 3, 2019 Justin Barringer is a Dallas-Fort Worth Albert Schweitzer Fellow and Religious Ethics PhD candidate at SMU. Below is an article from KERA regarding his Dallas nonprofit, Diapers, Ect. Diapers Etc. hands out around 10,000 to 12,000 diapers per month to families in need, for free. For those families on the […]
WBAP Originally Posted: April 2, 2019 With President Trump considering a border shutdown, the question is raised of how it will affect our economy. SMU Political Science Professor Cal Jillson joined the WBAP Morning News to weigh in on what might happen. LISTEN
Event Date: 4/4/2019 – 4/5/2019 Location: Crum Auditorium, Collins Executive Education Center Time: 4/4 5:00 PM- 6:30 PM 4/5 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Our symposium looks beyond the entrenched pro-choice/pro-life binary to explore a larger range of issues affecting women of reproductive age–and their families–in the twenty-first century. It will bring together scholars, advocates, and […]
Event Date: April 3 Location: Fondren Library East Room 110 Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM The Spring 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly […]
NBCDFW Originally Posted: A family in Collin County made a fascinating find last month when they discovered fossils from an animal that lived in the waters that covered Texas more than 65 million years ago. The mosasaur remains were discovered along the banks of Lavon Lake by Tana Trent and her 11-year-old daughter Landry. “Whenever […]