Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a part of the new educational landscape. It may feel like the current conversation focuses on all the potential dangers, but using appropriate generative AI tools can help experienced scholars save time and effort with some of the more tedious parts of the research process. Here are some important considerations…Continue Reading Generative AI for Research
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, when on the 25th of April in 1974, a coup supported by the public ended the Estado Novo (New State) dictatorship. Estado Novo had come to power in 1933 under António de Oliveira Salazar, who led an authoritarian regime defined by nationalism and religious…Continue Reading Portuguese Highlights from the DeGolyer Library
On April 25, Reel to Real: A Spielberg Canon, a student-curated film series, will present another screening for the film, Duel. At just 25 years old Steven Spielberg directed this made-for-tv film, his first, which showcases Spielberg’s early mastery of tension and suspense. It lays the groundwork for the cinematic brilliance that defines his film…Continue Reading Reel to Real: A Spielberg Canon – Student-curated Film Series presents DUEL
Fred the UnDead here, I’m standing at the site of the Cox School of Business renovation and it appears that hordes of zombies have overrun the campus! I’m going to see if I can catch some people to… interview. Looks around quad. Oh I see Emily Newsome, the Associate Director of the Executive MBA program….Continue Reading The Brainy News: When Zombies Attack
Over 122 years ago, James C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. We have launched a new digital collection of photographs of JCPenney stores, photographs of Mr. Penney or his projects, and a sampling of the first JCPenney newspaper for associates (employees) called The Dynamo. SMU received the JCPenney collections in 2004. The…Continue Reading JCPenney joins digital collections
In conjunction with the Torn Apart: Punk Graphics, Fashion & Culture, 1976-86 exhibition, this documentary, Westwood: Punk. Icon. Activist., will profile the life and work of the British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) who was largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. Torn Apart, an exhibition at the Hamon…Continue Reading Film screening: Westwood: Punk. Icon. Activist.
JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) will be screened on April 11th at 7pm, at the Angelika Theatre, Mockingbird Station, with FREE ADMISSION. The satirical horror film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody, will be the fourth film in the Student-Curated Film Series. Student curator Mara Webb ’24 will introduce the film and welcome special guests in attendance from…Continue Reading Reel to Real: A Spielberg Canon – Student-curated Film Series presents JENNIFER’S BODY
![[R. F. Wiseman, Emma Connolly, and Addie Jones], ca. 1900s, DeGolyer Library, SMU.](https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/files/2024/04/tex_5261_large-84819342e336bad7.jpg)
In March 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 236 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 23 documents and imprints, 1872-1950, comprising 1505 pages, were added to the Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints digital collection. The items include three volumes of the History of the Dallas Federation of Women’s Clubs, and a 1950 city directory of…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: March 2024