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#MustangsGiveBack is March 24! Support a Dedman College project and make a real difference for students

What will you support at SMU? Make a gift on March 24, 2016 and be a part of Mustangs Give Back, our one-day giving challenge. Below is a list of Dedman College projects: 1. Support Dedman College Scholars for a semester.  Help us fund one semester for a Dedman College Scholar student next year! CLICK […]

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Congratulations Dedman College Dean’s Research Council Award Recipients

March 18, 2016 Congratulations to the the recipients of this year’s Dean’s Research Council grants. The Dean’s Research Council provides competitively awarded seed funding for faculty research and allows them to compete for larger grants and fellowships outside SMU. Sciences Peng Tao Department of Chemistry Extending the Protein Evolution Paradigm to Combat Antibiotic Drug Resistance Karen Lupo Department of […]

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Brian Zoltowski, Chemistry, Why Americans don’t get enough sleep

Healthline The following is from the March 2, 2016, edition of Healthline. SMU Chemistry Professor Brian Zoltowski provided expertise for this story. We all know that a good night’s rest is vital to overall health, but we may not realize how essential it is or try hard enough to get it. After all, a rough […]

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SMU CATCO leaders Elfi Kraka and Dieter Cremer organize 26th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics.

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Doctors told Debbie Dupree that her son would be dead by the time he was 19. They were wrong. Ben is now 23 and a Dedman College alumnus.

KERA Originally Posted: January 20, 2016 When most little boys were running up and down stairs, Ben Dupree was using his arms to pull himself up the wood banister in his home in University Park. His mom, Debbie, knew something was wrong. “I can remember any step he would take, being worried that he was […]

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Dedman College 2015 research efforts broadly noted in a variety of ways for world-changing impact

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 […]

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Listen: Brian Zoltowski, Chemistry, on KTEP Science Studio

KTEP Radio Originally Posted: December 20, 2015 Brian Zoltowski is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University. On this program he talks about his interest in circadian rhythms, the natural 24-hour “clock” that governs biological processes in organisms as vast as plants, insects, and humans. Zoltowski joins us to discuss how circadian rhythms […]

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Avery Acker named the Academic All-American of the Year

SMUMUSTANGS.com Congratulations to senior setter Avery Acker. She was named the Academic All-American of the Year, College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Thursday. Acker earned the academic equivalent of a National Player of the Year award with a 3.95 GPA in accounting with minors in chemistry and biology, and has been accepted into medical […]

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Dr. Phillip Williams reflects on college memories and Dr. Harold Jeskey

SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: September 28, 2015 Walking into McFarlin Auditorium Thursday morning brought back several fond memories for Dr. Phillip Williams, neurosurgeon and member of the SMU Class of 1959. Nearly half a century ago, he walked up those same steps on his graduation day, and now he returned for SMU’s Centennial Commemoration. […]

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Three drug-like compounds may offer better odds of survival to patients with prostate cancer, find SMU researchers

News Medical Originally Posted: September 9, 2015 Researchers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, have discovered three new drug-like compounds that could ultimately offer better odds of survival to prostate cancer patients. The drug-like compounds can be modified and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance […]