EurekAlert Originally Posted: January 26, 2016 New interdisciplinary research in the Southwest United States has resolved long-standing debates on the timing and magnitude of American Indian population collapse in the region. The severe and rapid collapse of Native American populations in what is now the modern state of New Mexico didn’t happen upon first contact […]
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Originally Posted: January 25, 2016 Congratulations to Katie Logsdon Health & Society Major, Winner of the 5th Annual UT Southwestern Office of Global Health Conference Student Research Competition The conference and competition was held January 22-23 at UTSW, T. Boone Pickens Biomedical Building Auditorium in Dallas, Texas. Students from North Texas presented research […]
SMU NEWS Originally Posted: January 20, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – Whether the topic is immigrants from Mexico or refugees from Syria, much of public opinion on these complex issues appears driven by emotion rather than fact. That’s what prompted SMU Anthropology Graduate Student Shay Cannedy and four of her peers to organize SMU’s first Refugee […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: January 8, 2016 It was a good year for faculty and student research efforts. Here is a small sampling of public and published acknowledgements during 2015: Research makes the cover of Biochemistry Drugs important in the battle against cancer were tested in a virtual lab by SMU biology professors to see […]
SMU News Originally Posted: December 18, 2015 Eleven SMU faculty members have received 2015-16 Sam Taylor Fellowships from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund of the Division of Higher Education, United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. Five of the recipients are Dedman College faculty. The Fellowships, funded by income from a portion of […]
Discovery News Originally Posted: November 25, 2015 Early Native Americans Raised Turkeys, But Not to Eat There is little doubt that Native Americans at a Utah site appropriately called Turkey Pen Ruins raised turkeys, but new research concludes that they rarely ate them, and instead raised the large birds for their coveted feathers. The study […]
AAAS Originally Posted: November 18, 2015 Archaeologist Tom Dillehay didn’t want to return to Monte Verde. Decades ago, his discoveries at the famous site in southern Chile showed that humans occupied South America by 14,500 years ago, thousands of years earlier than thought, stirring a long and exhausting controversy. Now, Dillehay, of Vanderbilt University in […]
SMU Originally Posted: Nov. 12, 2015 SMU anthropology Ph.D. candidate Kerri Brown recently received a Fulbright-Hays international education fellowship to support 18 months of research in Brazil. Brown leaves for Rio de Janeiro in January to continue work on her dissertation about public policy related to traditional medicinal plants in Brazil. In Brazil, home to […]
Daily Campus Originally Posted: October 20, 2015 Society should trust science because it’s a long, time-tested process of accumulated expertise, Harvard University Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D said Thursday night. Speaking at the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute’s annual Allman Family Lecture, Oreskes explained that some of society’s misconceptions of science exist […]