NeuroScience News– Adults who frequently worry about being rejected or abandoned by those closest to them are more prone to having false memories when they can see who is conveying the information, a new study suggests. The authors, SMU’s Nathan Hudson and Michigan State University’s William J. Chopik, found that adults with attachment anxiety tend to remember details incorrectly […]
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D Magazine – C.W. Smith Has Yet to Write a Bestseller. He’s Fine With That. His latest, Girl Flees Circus, places the novelist back in New Mexico. There are agents in Hollywood who specialize in selling books to the movies, and I was sitting in the Beverly Hills office of such a person some years […]
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) There’s no denying: we have a fixation for fashion. The average consumer buys 60% more clothing today than 18 years ago, and keeps it half as long. And with fast fashion companies churning out monthly – or weekly – trends, that cycle is repeating at breakneck speed. Hundreds of shoppers lined up […]
Faculty Position Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position No. 50553. The Department of Biological Sciences in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University plans to fill multiple junior faculty positions in the next several years, andcurrently is inviting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank. Southern Methodist University is a research […]
Dallas Morning News: Word came recently about an upcoming literary event that you won’t want to miss. Presented at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Bound brings together Texas-connected actors to read works by Texas-connected authors. In the next installment of the series, on Nov. 7, Dallas writers will be well represented. Sanderia Faye, who’s […]
After English department faculty member Jonathan Malesic received more than 1,000 responses to his essay, “My College Students Are Not OK,” the New York Times published a follow-up essay with his response to some of the questions he received. “Don’t lose hope,” he urged a college student. “We’re going to need to all the brainpower […]
In a Washington Times podcast, “History as it Happens,” presidential historian Jeffrey Engel discussed the long-ranging effects of President Biden’s commitment to Ukraine against a longstanding enemy.
Foreign Policy News Jo Guldi, data scientist, historian, and SMU Associate Professor, for a piece advocating for world-wide equity in land ownership as one means to combat global warming. Published in Foreign Policy News under the heading We need a global government of land, air and water: https://bit.ly/3MyYlxv Polls show that two-thirds of Americans believe that the government should do more […]
EOS The field of seismology is entering a new era where our understanding of earthquakes and the solid earth is increasingly driven by new Big Data experiments and algorithms. By: Stephen J. Arrowsmith, Daniel T. Trugman, Karianne Bergen and Beatrice Magnani Scientists have been measuring earthquakes for hundreds of years. As instruments have advanced, so […]
The Hill Joseph Kobylka, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of the SMU Department of Political Science, for a commentary summing up the work of the 2021 Supreme Court term and how influencer Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shaped the membership and caused an abrupt turn in rulings toward the right. Published in The Hill under […]