DALLAS (SMU) — As the world commemorates the remarkable life of Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), two SMU scholars of history and human rights offer their unique perspectives on his legacy. Mandela’s revolutionary work to end South Africa’s racial segregation system of apartheid led to his spending 27 years in prison beginning in 1963. After his 1990 release, he memorably noted, […]
David Meltzer signs the Book of Members at his induction to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Oct. 12. SMU Twitter
Dr. Alicia Meuret has been selected as a 2014 Beck Institute Scholar. The purpose of this program is to offer state-of-the-art training to young scholars who have made significant contributions the field of cognitive therapy, and who are likely to continue to do so. Congratulations!
SMU fielded two national prize winning data mining teams: One team (photo 1 below) finished with a silver medal in the 2013 SAS Data Mining Shootout Competition, the recognition of which occurred on October 22, 2013 at the SAS Analytics Conference in Orlando, Florida; the second team (photo 2) finished in the top five in […]
A new article by Prof. Keller (with Fred Block) highlights the role that government innovation programs have played in transforming the U.S. innovation system. Whereas the development of new technologies was once dominated by large, vertically integrated firms, since the 1980s an increasingly ‘networked’ innovation environment has emerged in which small firms play a central […]
Professor Kunovich was the recipient of two prestigious awards in 2013. She received the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award from SMU’s Center for Teaching Excellence(CTE). The award recognizes faculty members “for their notable commitment to and achievements in fostering student learning. These are teachers whose concerns for higher education go beyond classroom boundaries and often the boundaries of […]
Powerful new discovery tool is already at work screening millions of drugs in search to reverse chemotherapy drug-resistance in cancer. READ MORE