Event Date: April 25 Location: Theatre, Hughes-Trigg Student Center Time: 1-3 PM Join SMU panelists as they discuss their research on uses of mindfulness as a healing modality to cope with the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of contemporary life. Refreshments served. Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
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The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute will be sponsoring one Fellows Seminar during the academic year 2017-2018—Operations Research and Statistics: Toward Integrated Analytics. DCII Fellows Seminars are communities of inquiry that bring scholars from different disciplines and with varied interests and expertise together to explore a topic in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. We are now […]
The DCII offers a home for informal collaborative and interdisciplinary research clusters who wish to meet together at least twice during any given semester to discuss shared interests. These clusters should be open to faculty and graduate students from across the campus and should each have two faculty or grad student conveners responsible for the […]
Event Date: April 4 Location: Greer Garson Screening Room, Meadows School of the Arts Time: 5:00 p.m. Join Nathaniel Wolloch of the Minerva Humanities Center and Tel Aviv University as he lectures. Sponsored by the Looking at Animals/Thinking About Animals Research Cluster. For more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
Event Date: April 10 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center, The Forum Time: 5:30 p.m. Reception, 6:00 p.m. Lecture We are drawn to the new, the unusual, the unexpected: what we could not predict on the basis of what came before. As vast archives of our cultural past and present go online, scientists can now break out of […]
Event Date: March 30, 2017 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater Time: 7pm This event brings together African musicians and historians with SMU students and faculty. This public event of interspaced conversation and song will involve two Zimbabweans who have put mbira music on the world stage, Dr. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited Band and Professor […]
Event Date: 4-6-17 Location: Caruth Hall 147 Time: Reception at 5:30 with lecture at 6:00 p.m. Janek Wasserman, Assistant Professor of Modern German and Central European History at the U. of Alabama, will examine the paradoxical history of the transatlantic intellectual phenomenon of Austrian Economics. Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science and SMU invite the entire University community to a special event on Thursday, Feb. 23. Scott Wing, curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, will speak on “Past, Present & Future – The Truth Is In the Fossils.” A catered reception will precede […]
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Request for Proposals for Undergraduate Mayer Fellows, 2017-2018
Each academic year, DCII sponsors six undergraduate Mayer Undergraduate Research Fellows. These students have a double major or a major and minor(s), and at least one of these must be in Dedman College. With two faculty mentors, each Mayer Fellow conducts a research project that combines and integrates the perspectives of his/her major(s)/minor(s). Mayer Fellows […]
Event Date: February 23, 2017 Location: Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2201 N Field St) Time: 6-8 PM The DCII, through support from the Scott Hawkins lecture series, and in collaboration with the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, invite you to an evening lecture titled, “The Meaning of Fossils in the New Age of […]