SIAM News – Lizuo Liu delivered a minisymposium presentation on this research at the 2022 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22), which took place in San Diego, Ca., last year. He received funding to attend MDS22 through a SIAM Student Travel Award. Learning Oscillatory Navier-Stokes Flows and Causal Linear Operators with Deep Neural Network […]
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Dedman College News – At the May 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies (WMU, Kalamazoo MI), the world’s largest medieval conference, SMU faculty member Bonnie Wheeler (English and Medieval Studies) received a multitude of honors for her lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies. First, she was awarded the 2023 Medieval Foremother Prize for her extensive publications […]
Religious studies expert Johan Elverskog told the China Project Buddhist Uyghur relics displayed in Berlin are helping a new generation of European Uyghurs better understand their past. Read the full article.
Dedman College Dean Thomas DiPiero, an expert on To Kill A Mockingbird, told KERA that Atticus Finch remains an ideal of truth, justice and fatherly wisdom. After re-reading the novel as adults, however, DiPiero said many may find Atticus more complicated than they remember. Read the full KERA article.
SMU News – SMU geophysicist Zhong Lu is part of a team working on a new NASA program to make free satellite-based observations of Earth’s water, ecosystem and land surface available to anyone with an internet connection. Scientists routinely rely on data-intensive analysis and visualization of satellite observations to track Earth’s ever-changing surface. The open-sourcing of the information […]
Lori Stephens, lecturer in the Department of English, was recently featured in LitTalk: A DFW Author Panel Series to discuss her new novel, Blue Running. Describe Blue Running and a bit of the creative process and inspiration. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. A gun accident killed her best friend, but […]
Sanderia Smith, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of English, recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker called Racial Injustice in response to the victims of police brutality across the country. What inspired you to write Racial Injustice? I wrote this piece, Racial Injustice, because there were so many African American men and women being murdered by the police. […]
Heather DeShon, Professor and Chair of the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, described a recent geophysics field study in California led by Beatrice Magnani and Chris Hayward. Describe the field study in Mono Lake. The Spring Field Studies to Mono Lake, CA was an outstanding success. We took 18 undergraduates, four graduate students, […]
Austin American Statesman – By Mark Chancey and Marc Zvi Brettler. Chancey is a professor of religious studies at SMU Dallas. Brettler is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University The Ten Commandments bill passed through the Texas State Senate last month faster than the Hebrews through the Red […]
Nature Portfolio – Chemical Communication Drive Microbial Community Structure Microbial communities are assemblages organized by various ecological and evolutionary processes that contribute to the different types and number of species across environments. At broad biogeographic patterns, certain microbial taxa are largely associated with particular environments (e.g., Cyanobacteria in marine systems) due to conserved phylogenetic traits. […]