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PhD Student Elijah Hook Awarded Pueppke Prize

Elijah Hook was awarded the 2024 Pueppke Prize for outstanding graduate student writing with his essay “Gutting the Sonnet: Jericho Brown’s Duplex and the Poetics of Renovation.” Congrats Elijah!

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Professor Wheeler wins Provost’s Faculty Career Achievement Award

Congratulations to Professor Bonnie Wheeler, who received the Faculty Career Achievement Award from Provost Loboa!

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Professor Condon wins Provost’s Faculty Career Achievement Award

Congratulations to Professor Katie Condon, who received the Faculty Career Achievement Award from Provost Loboa!

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Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr named Prothro service award winner

Congratulations to Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr, named a winner of the 2024 Caren Prothro Faculty Service award, “for a record of exceptional service to SMU and the larger Dallas community, as exemplified by Caren Prothro.”

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Professor Smith snags pair of awards

Congratulations to Professor Sanderia Smith, who received both a research award from Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and a Faculty Career Achievement Award from President Turner!

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Samyak Shertok awarded 2023 Witness Poetry Prize

Dedman College News – Samyak Shertok, a Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, has won the 2023 Witness Poetry Prize.  Judge Joy Harjo, former Poet Laureate of the United States, writes:  “The poem ‘Mother Tongue: A Haunting’ is a tight construction that embodies the haunting of language displacement amidst liminal familial memory.  Mysterious essences of ghost presences […]

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Bonnie Wheeler receives Singular Praise

Dedman College News – At the May 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies (WMU, Kalamazoo MI), the world’s largest medieval conference, SMU faculty member Bonnie Wheeler (English and Medieval Studies) received a multitude of honors for her lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies. First, she was awarded the 2023 Medieval Foremother Prize for her extensive publications […]

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Dedman College Announces 2023 Faculty Awards

Congratulations to the following: Ryszard Stroynowski Dedman Family Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Russ Caren Prothro Award Robert Gregory and Joe Kobylka Perrine Prize

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SMU Biosciences professor receives NIH grant for research on epilepsy

Newswise — An estimated 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making them 16 times more likely to die suddenly compared to the general population. SMU biology researcher Edward Glasscock has received a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study that he hopes will lead to the identification of biomarkers […]

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SMU Maguire Ethics Center awards Dedman College students with public service fellowships

Dedman College News – The SMU Maguire Ethics Center awards Public Service Fellowships to undergraduate and graduate students interested in volunteer work or research in ethics during the summer months. Recipients are required to complete 200 hours of public service during the summer term. For 25 years The Maguire Ethics Center has awarded summer fellowships […]