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SMU Department of Psychology Announces Accelerated M.S. Degree Program in Organizational Psychology

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Government shutdown freezes Dallas scientists’ work — and paychecks

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 16, 2019 The 25-foot-long swimming lizards sit alone in the dark. A few weeks ago, they drew thousands of visitors a day at the Washington, D.C., National Museum of Natural History, where they helped tell the story of shifting continents, evolution and life on Earth. Now the museum is closed, a casualty of […]

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Building Foundations for a Data-Driven Future

Dedman College News Originally Posted: Jan. 1, 2019 Vince Miller, a student in the M.S. in Applied Statistics and Data Analytics (MASDA) program graduating this fall, fills us in on his journey to data science, what it’s really like to study in the program, and how data science will continue to shape our world. For […]

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Former Clements Fellow Andrew Torget prepares to break a Guinness World Record in teaching the longest lesson

Chronicle of Higher Education Originally Posted: July 26, 2018 On August 24 at 9 a.m., Andrew Torget will take the podium in a University of North Texas auditorium, clad in a suit and armed with 500 pages of notes. Forty-five students will be seated in front of him, notebooks — no laptops! — at the ready. He’ll […]

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Remains of Black People Forced Into Labor After Slavery Are Discovered in Texas

New York Times Originally Posted: July 18, 2018 Dr. Catrina Whitley, Gwen Bakke, and Abigail Fisher are working on a historic African American cemetery in Houston. Dr. Whitley is a Dedman College  alumna and a former adjunct lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. Gwen Bakke and Abigail Fisher are SMU anthropology Ph.D. students. Below is an […]

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Discovering the stars, changing her future: Jasmine Liu ’18

SMU News Originally Posted: May 30, 2018 Invisible to the naked eye, the variable star ROTSE1 J000831.43+223154.8 flickers in the northern sky. It hides within an ancient star map formed, it was said, when the king of the gods transformed his most heroic steed into a constellation. For Jasmine Liu ’18 – an SMU physics […]

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Congratulations Dedman College Graduates!

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SMU to Launch Incubator for DFW Startups

D Magazine Originally Posted: April 11, 2018 Southern Methodist University soon will have its own incubator for tech-based startups as it aims to boost the local economy. The incubator, which SMU announced Wednesday morning, is expected to occupy  5,000 square feet on the first floor of The Foundry Club, a 25,000-square-foot entrepreneurial club, at Mockingbird […]

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State archeologist sheds light on Buckhead’s distant past at Lovett

MDJ Online Originally Posted: April 5, 2018 If you were to Google “anthropological archeologist,” you’d find a picture of David Crass, Ph.D. A mix between the athletic, earnest Teddy Roosevelt and the adventurous, playful Indiana Jones, he is an archaeologist, an anthropologist, the division director of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and deputy state […]

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Request for Proposals for DCII Annual Fellows Seminar, 2018-2019

The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute is now soliciting proposals from faculty for an Annual Fellows Seminar for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. DCII Fellows Seminars are communities of inquiry that bring faculty, students, and, if appropriate, community participants with different interests and expertise together to explore a topic in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. Please see […]