The fellowship experience will let you explore new ideas and topics, broaden your expertise, enhance your sophistication in interviews, and see how your skills relate to and can be helpful to those in other fields. Students will leave this course with the skills necessary to execute a digital humanities project and engage in top-level conversations […]
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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: May 2 Time: 3:30 p.m. Join Dona Lee Wong, Ph.D. of Harvard Medical School for a special guest lecture on her work. This event is sponsored by the DCII’s Biopsychosocial Research Cluster and the Center for Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery (CD4). For more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
Event date: May 3, 2016 Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Remarks at 2:30 p.m. Location: Dallas Hall Rotunda Take a break on Reading Day and join us to celebrate all books published by SMU faculty members in 2015. Refreshments and raffle prizes will be provided! RSVP at smubookfest.eventbrite.com or 214-768-3527.
Event Date: April 15 Time: 12:15 p.m. with lunch Location: Godwin Gruber Lawyer’s Inn – The Private Dining Room Joseph L. Gastwirth, Professor of Statistics and Economics from George Washington University, as he discusses the analysis of data arising in jury discrimination cases and how statistical studies and measures are used to assess the health risks […]
Daily Campus Originally Posted: April 8, 2016 The edges of the audiences’ lips curved upwards into cheeky grins as SMU alumnus Stephen Ornes said the first name he had chosen for his lecture on science writing: “Liars, Deniers, Doubters and evidence, where do we go from here?” The physics and english degree-holder changed the name […]
Event date: 04/13/2016 Event time: 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Location: Heroy Science Hall 153 “Public intellectuals” bring complex ideas to the public sphere, advancing the cause of human knowledge for as wide a public as possible. Join two prominent public intellectuals, anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann and neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni, as they share their groundbreaking research and discuss […]
Event date: 04/08/2016 Event time: 12:15 p.m. Join Professor of Law John Pfaff, from Fordham University, as he discusses his paper on the causes of the explosive growth in the US prison population. Sponsored by the DCII’s Faculty Seminar, “Law and Statistics”. Lunch Provided. Please RSVP at efielding@smu.edu or 214-768-3527. Contact for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events […]
SMU News Science writer Stephen Ornes will present a lecture titled, “Real and Imaginary Hazards in Writing About Science,” on Thursday, April 7. A panel discussion featuring Perot Museum of Nature and Science Vice President of Learning and Engagement Jamie Creola, Plano ISD Science Department head Ramy Mahmoud and former Teach for America STEM content […]
The DCII welcomes proposals for support from the Scott-Hawkins lecture fund. The DCII is particularly interested in proposals for speakers or events that can appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience of students and faculty. As in the past we expect that applicants will seek other sources of funding to match the amount requested from the […]