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Washington Post Originally Posted: November 5, 2018 New exhibit, with SMU ties, opens at the National Museum of Natural History this week in Washington, D.C. Excerpt below. ‘Sea Monsters Unearthed’ at National Museum of Natural History: Go back in time millions of years to the era of mosasaurs, also known as giant marine lizards (or, […]

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Save the date: Nov. 9 ‘Sea Monsters Unearthed’

Washington Post Originally Posted: Oct. 18, 2018 Nov. 9 – Through 2020. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, will run an exhibit ‘Sea Monsters Unearthed.’ SMU faculty and students have contributed to the exhibit. Go back in time millions of years to the era of mosasaurs, also […]

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New Smithsonian Exhibit Reflects the Passion of SMU Professor and an Army of Student Fossil Hounds

SMU News Originally Posted: October 15, 2018 Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas opens Nov. 9 at National Museum of Natural History Once the exhibit opens, “Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola’s Ancient Seas” will allow visitors to visually dive into the cool waters off the coast of West Africa as they existed […]

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Dedman College faculty retire with emeritus status

Forum Originally Posted: May 31, 2018 Congratulations to the following Dedman College faculty members who are retiring with emeritus status in 2017-2018 Alan S. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, 1974-2018 Louis L. Jacobs, Professor Emeritus, Paleontology, 1983-2018 Francisco Morán, Professor Emeritus, World Languages and Literatures (Spanish), 2003-2018 Wayne A. Woodward, Professor Emeritus, Statistical Science, 1981-2017 Read the full article here: […]

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‘God Save Texas’ Review: A Lone Star State of Mind

Wall Street Journal Originally Posted: April 26, 2018 Mr. Spiegelman is an emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University. By: Willard Spiegelman The dust jacket of his new book misidentifies Lawrence Wright as a Texas native (he was born in Oklahoma; as a child he moved to Abilene, and in 1960 to Dallas), but this is a […]

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John Ubelaker, Biology, Heat, drought, wildfire and insects threaten an iconic pine

Ensia Originally Posted: September 26, 2017 Among the rolling mesas north of Taos, New Mexico, a lush piñon pine tree reaches skyward from a rocky slope. John Ubelaker bends to its base and counts the number of branches swirling from the ground to the crown. “Young one,” he says of the tree. “It’s about 20 […]

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David Weber, Dedman emeritus, first-person accounts of sites explore history, identity of the West in new book First Impressions

Albuquerque Journal Originally Posted: September 25, 2017 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico has a prominent and deserved presence in the newly released book “First Impressions: A Reader’s Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest.” That prominence is marked by the fact that seven of the 15 places referenced in the book are in the […]

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Did y’all hear about SMU physics professor Jeff Chalk?

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: September 22, 2017 If everybody had a physics teacher like Jeff Chalk, we might already have flying cars and moon colonies. The SMU professor who died earlier this month at age 87 was famous for zany demonstrations in class designed to get non-majors jazzed about science. Lying on a bed of nails […]

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Eighteen distinguished faculty members with a combined total of nearly 585 years of SMU service retired with emeritus status in the 2016-17 academic year.

SMU News Originally Posted: June 8, 2017 Eighteen distinguished faculty members with a combined total of nearly 585 years of SMU service retired with emeritus status in the 2016-17 academic year. The professors, and their dates of service: • Thomas E. Barry, Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Cox School of Business, 1970-2017 • Janis Bergman-Carton, Professor Emerita of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, 1991-2017 • Edward Biehl, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Dedman […]

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History Professor Emeritus Jim Hopkins reflects on his father’s role in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki 70 years ago, on August 9, 1945.

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