Congratulations to the Dedman College faculty and students who were recognized at the 2016 Awards Extravaganza on Monday, April 18. Recipients of the Outstanding Professor Awards presented by the Rotunda yearbook include: • B. Sunday Eiselt, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies, Department of Anthropology • Laurence Winnie, senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies, […]
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Associate dean for General Education addresses questions about UC-2016
SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: April 16, 2016 By: Peter Moore, associate dean, General Education Let me take a moment to address the issues Noah Bartos raised in his editorial regarding UC-2016. Noah is rightly concerned about the potential headaches various groups will face regarding two very similar curricula (UC-2012 and UC-2016). We are too. […]
Professor Sheri Kunovich received the Extra Mile Award from the Students for New Learning. Students for New Learning is an SMU-chartered student organization for students with ADHD or learning differences. The group meets monthly to provide support, learn tips and strategies, plan fun events, and works to increase campus understanding on the topic of learning […]
After controlling for political interest, previous voting behavior, and socio-economic controls, women in Poland are found to be less knowledgeable than men about political leaders. However, religious attendance is found to increase women’s political knowledge but not men’s. READ MORE about Sheri Kunovich
SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: March 28, 2016 Aubrey Chapman, a junior double majoring in psychology and religious studies, is looking forward to graduating in May of 2016, a year earlier than her peers. After graduation, Chapman will immediately move on in her studies and get her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy at […]
Sociology alumna, Isis Wilson, will be starting a new position with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
MKCL Alumni Update: Kelly Sayres Kelly Sayres will be pursuing a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in Technology, Innovation, and Education starting Fall 2016. Kelly graduated in 2012 and has been teaching at an impoverished elementary school in rural Central Texas.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/QgpPM7IscyY[/youtube] In early February, A. Shonn Evans Brown was honored as one of five Dedman Law Distinguished Alumni of 2016. She gives back regularly to SMU by meeting with current sociology undergraduate students as well as serving as a mentor to Dedman law school students. We are honored to have her in our community of […]
While the wave of urban fiscal distress following the Great Recession resembles local fiscal crises of the past, two factors distinguish the current period. First, city budgets are thoroughly financialized—dominated by speculative and volatile debt arrangements—such that local crisis is now intertwined with financial market instability. Second, local fiscal politics are increasingly removed from democratic […]
Students enrolled in Dr. Nancy Campbell’s SOCI 4335: Social Movements and Collective Behavior course had the opportunity to meet Steve Sanders, a Steampunk poet. Mr. Sanders provided the class with a rich history and description of the Steampunk community (Steampunk involves 19th Century dress and literature with a Sci-Fi twist) and shared several of his original poems