Event Date: March 20 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 begin to […]
Category: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: March 13, 2019 For generations dating back to the 1930s, throughout Mexico, including in this region in the central state of Guanajuato known as El Bajio, the towns have emptied themselves out of their youths during what’s called the ‘winter blues.’ The young would head north to seek out their […]
Haynes Boone Originally Posted: March 7, 2019 Congratulations to SMU Dedman College alumnus, Rafael Anchia! He graduated from SMU in 1990 with a triple major in Spanish, anthropology and Latin American studies. Rafael Anchia, of counsel at Haynes and Boone, LLP and Texas State Representative, will receive the 2019 Distinguished Hispanic Alumni Award from Southern Methodist University […]
PLOSE Originally Posted: March 12, 2019 Kate Andrzejewski, with Dale Winkler and Louis Jacobs of the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences have identified Convolosaurus marri from fossils collected at Proctor Lake. READ MORE
Yahoo News Originally Posted: March 3, 2019 Despite US President Donald Trump’s lurid rhetoric on a “crisis” at the Mexican border, census data reveals the number of new arrivals from Latin America has fallen considerably since 2010, as the rate of immigration from Asia has taken off. Trump’s hang-up over Latin American immigration across the […]
MPR Originally Posted: February 28, 2019 Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, called his old boss a ‘racist’, ‘conman’ and ‘a cheat’ while testifying before the House Oversight Committee yesterday. Cohen, who pleaded guilty to several federal criminal charges last year — including lying to Congress — leveled several accusations against the […]
WFAA Originally Posted: March 8, 2019 Meet Lynn McBee, candidate for Dallas mayor WFAA invited each of the nine candidates for Dallas mayor to answer the following questions to help inform voters before the May 4th election. Here are Lynn McBee’s responses: Occupation: As CEO of Young Women’s Prep Network for the past 5 years, […]
March 21, 2019 3:30-4:45 100 Hyer Hall Diverse Careers for Humanities Scholars What else can you do with a humanities Ph.D., in addition to seeking a tenure-track job? Hear five scholars describe their hybrid and alternative career paths: Diana Bellonby, Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt, as well as President and Co-Founder of The Fringe Foundation for […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: March 8, 2019 This is an excerpt from a Dallas Morning News article. Read the full article here. Register for Science in the City here. How to listen for earthquakes, feel the vibrations (and sturdiness) of bridges, and even make better bionic legs Did you know you can “listen” for earthquakes? No, […]
Cambridge University Press Originally Posted: March 6, 2019 Southern Methodist University archaeologists used satellite imagery to map impacts of Hurricane Harvey to 920 archaeological sites. Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, an SMU alum currently at Temple University, and Mark D. McCoy of the Department of Anthropology published new research in the journal American Antiquity detailing how 40% […]