New Year’s with George Washington: Despair and DefianceNew research by SMU professor Alexis McCrossen reveals how New Year’s Day marked critical moments of resolve, leadership and renewal in George Washington’s life. The article draws from McCrossen’s forthcoming book, How the New Year Became the Time of Your Life: A History, which explores how Americans have […]
The federal government has signaled potential tariff reductions on select imports from Latin America, a move aimed at easing the cost pressures consumers have seen on everyday items. Economists say the impact will vary across products: prices for goods the U.S. does not produce—such as coffee and bananas—could soften modestly, while domestically sourced items like […]
Associate Professor Macabe Keliher recently published a groundbreaking article in Enterprise & Society titled “Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation and the Role of State Firms in Economic Development.” His research explores how state-owned enterprises played a crucial role in Taiwan’s industrialization and economic rise. By examining the Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation, Dr. Keliher offers new insights […]
The SMU Earth Hazards and National Security Research Cluster is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Climate Science Research Fund. This fund will provide support to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty to collect primary data relevant to climate science and/or conduct research focused on modern environmental and climate change.
Forbes Scientists using data from Chinese lunar orbiters have discovered what they think is a mass of granite 30 miles wide deep under the surface of the moon. Located under the moon’s far side, it’s unlike anything found before. Presented today at the at the Goldschmidt Conferencein Lyon, France, a paper has also been published […]
Dallas Morning News Matt Siegler, a planetary scientist at SMU, was digging into old data to figure out how hot it is under the moon’s surface when he came upon something surprising: evidence of a massive, ancient volcano. The moon has always sparked the human imagination — the first known story of explorers landing on […]
Washington Times In this episode of History As It Happens, historian Jeffrey Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, discusses the origins of today’s controversy over whether NATO should welcome Ukraine into the alliance. Since the negotiations over German reunification in 1990, the questions of when and where […]
Dallas Morning News Rick Halperin, Director of the SMU Dallas Human Rights Program, for a commentary about the murder of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez 50 years ago and the impact on the Dallas community. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading A half-century later the Santos Rodriguez murder remains the open wound of Dallas: […]
SMU NEWS – SMU is creating a federally-funded data warehouse to centralize data collection and support research into human trafficking in the United States. An estimated 27.6 million people worldwide are forced at any given time to perform labor or engage in commercial sex acts. The SMU Human Trafficking Data Warehouse will give law enforcement […]
Nature– A large formation of granite discovered below the lunar surface likely was formed from the cooling of molten lava that fed a volcano or volcanoes that erupted early in the Moon’s history – as long as 3.5 billion years ago. A team of scientists led by Matthew Siegler, an SMU research professor and research […]