Category: Topics

In the News: Hunt begins for elusive neutrino particle at one of the world’s largest, most powerful detectors

Post author By Sarah Sage
Post date October 6, 2014

SMU Graduate Student Biao Wang is 300 feet underground in front of the close detector. Under the direction of SMU physicist Thomas Coan, Wang works on the maintenance and trouble shooting of the detector as an on-call expert for the cooling system of the read-out electronics.

Faculty Statistics

Faculty in Focus: Klaus Desmet in The Economist: Goldilocks nationalism

Post author By Sarah Sage
Post date September 26, 2014

Faculty Statistics

Faculty in Focus: Ömer Özak in The Atlantic: Can a Nation’s Soil Explain Its Economic Fortunes?

Post author By Sarah Sage
Post date September 18, 2014

Omer Ozak, SMU, agriculture, soil, economics

Faculty Psychology

Faculty in Focus: George W. Holden on ABC News: Adrian Peterson Case Brings Scrutiny to Child Spanking

Post author By Sarah Sage
Post date September 15, 2014

Holden, spanking, ABC News, SMU

Alumni Earth Sciences

Alumni News: Thomas L. Adams in the Houston Chronicle: Project to protect rare dinosaur tracks

Post author By Sarah Sage
Post date September 1, 2014

dino3 Houston Chronicle reporter Marvin Pfiefer has written about a project led by SMU alum Thomas L. Adams to catalog and protect the tracks of a 110 million-year-old dinosaur preserved in rock at Government Canyon State Natural Area. Adams, a paleontologist, is a graduate of Dedman College’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences.