Category: Physics

SMU Giving Day is March 7

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date March 7, 2023

Let’s help shape a brighter future for Dedman College students! Visit the Dedman College Giving Day Page: https://givingday.smu.edu/pages/dedman-college/?appeal_id=63fe445f7b2a06205282d747 The featured Dedman College funds are listed below: Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Anthropology Student Seminar Room Center for Presidential History Dean’s Research Council Dedman College Scholars Dedman College Research and Advanced Studies Department of Political Science Department of World […]

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ALMA scientists find pair of black holes dining together in nearby galaxy merger

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date January 23, 2023

SMU News – While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)— scientists discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest […]

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2022 Dedman College Research Round Up

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date January 19, 2023

Dedman College News- Here are some of the Dedman College 2022 research highlights. For the full article please visit SMU News: A study led by fire anthropologist Christopher Roos suggests bringing “good fire” back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today’s […]

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How the Dirk statue stays upright: An Axios investigation

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date January 12, 2023

Axios – The new Dirk Nowitzki statue, unveiled outside the American Airlines Center on Christmas Day, is one of the coolest sports statues ever — especially compared to some of the dismal tributes to athletes recently erected in other parts of the world. The very big picture: The 24-foot, 9,000-pound sculpture, designed by artist Omri […]

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Happy Holidays

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date December 22, 2022

SMU will be closed for the holiday from December 23 to January 2. Enjoy your break and see you in the new year.

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Congratulations to the December Graduates

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date December 15, 2022

December Commencement is Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. in Moody Coliseum. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. To see all the details for Commencement weekend, including a link to the ceremony live stream, visit here on our website.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date November 22, 2022

Wishing all of our SMU family and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. SMU will be closed November 24-25.

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Armstrongs commit $5 million to endow dean position

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date November 8, 2022

SMU – A $5 million gift from entrepreneurs Elisabeth Martin Armstrong ’82 and William D. Armstrong ’82 will further the academic and research excellence of the SMU Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences by endowing the school’s dean position, renaming it the Elisabeth Martin Armstrong Dean. Through their gift, the Armstrongs will support Dedman College’s future-focused leadership […]