At @smuguildhall.bsky.social, students have access to facilities normally available only from major publishers. That includes the Game User Research Lab, which offers key resources for game testing, housing testing stations and real-time high definition recording and broadcasting equipment.
New research from SMU reveals how urban farming can become both sustainable and economically viable.
How to make urban farming sustainable and profitable? SMU study shows research partnerships can help urban farms thrive. 🧪
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SMU researchers Kathleen Smits and Venkata Rao Gundapuneni led a team that identified which factors in urban areas make it harder to detect natural gas leaks from underground pipelines.
New study reveals significant detection gap for urban natural gas leaks. SMU researchers Kathleen Smits and Venkata Rao Gundapuneni led a team that identified which factors in urban areas make it harder to detect natural gas leaks from underground pipelines. www.smu.edu/news/researc... 🧪
Syakira Wijaya, Sarah Kucker and Sneh Jhaveri at the SMU KID Lab. The lab focuses on young children's cognitive and language development, with special interest in technology and digital media.
Screen time doesn't just affect how many words toddlers learn. It changes which ones. SMU's Sarah Kucker found video exposure meant fewer body part words. Another study with Syakira Wijaya and Sneh Jhaveri found more media use at age 2 meant smaller vocabularies at age 3.
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The archeological site of Tequendama I at the border of the Sabana de Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Credit: Angélica Triana.
Scientists recovered a 5,500-year-old genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium behind syphilis and related diseases, from human remains in Colombia. The findings, published in Science, expand what we know about this pathogen's history in human populations. 🧪🌎
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SMU researcher Quan Xie and colleagues developed frameworks to help scholars amplify the societal impact of their research through digital marketing strategies.
Quan Xie, a digital advertising researcher at SMU, collaborated with an international team to develop two frameworks that use digital marketing strategies to help academics expand their reach beyond scholarly circles and amplify their works' societal impact.
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SMU's Janille Smith-Colin, Jeanna Wieselmann and Anthony Petrosino are spearheading an initiative to improve science and engineering education in Texas elementary and middle schools.
With a $5 million grant from the NSF, SMU is leading an initiative to enhance how science and engineering are taught in Texas elementary and middle schools. 🧪
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SMU doctoral student Juliana Antonio holds a Mustang Fellowship from SMU's Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. Antonio is part of the university's Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO).
When COVID shut labs, SMU doctoral student Juliana Antonio pivoted to computer modeling—reshaping her career. Her latest research in Pure and Applied Chemistry's quantum science issue shows how fine-tuning proteins could lead to more efficient treatment development. 🧪
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Why do we love being scared? Dean Bryan Stone (Perkins School of Theology) and film professor Rick Worland (Meadows School of the Arts) unpack our fascination with horror films at SMU's G. William Jones Film & Video Collection.
Happy #Halloween! 😱🎃
New research by SMU highlights potential privacy risks in video conferencing applications. A man participates in a video conference with several people on a laptop.
SMU computer scientists have discovered that even with cameras turned off and virtual backgrounds in use, attackers can actively and covertly probe a user’s physical location by exploiting the two-way audio channels of video conferencing apps. www.smu.edu/news/researc... 💻👀
Smithsonian's "Sea Monsters Unearthed" is going on a road trip. A collaboration between Angolan, American, Portuguese and Dutch paleontologists excavated and studied the fossils, which were then prepared for the exhibition by a team of SMU scientists and students.🦕🦖🧪
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With a $2.7M grant, SMU's Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity aims to identify cyber vulnerabilities in AI- and machine-learning-powered autonomous systems. Picture of drone flying.
Mitch Thornton, Executive Director of the Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity, has been awarded $2.7 to lead research in autonomous systems testing, establishing SMU as a leader against emerging cybersecurity threats in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. 💻👨💻👩💻
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"I truly believe that it's only when head and heart work in harmony that we can achieve our true human potential."
~Jane Goodall
Toxic wastewater from dormant West Texas oil wells has alarmed residents. A @bloomberg.com investigation found that the reasons for the leaks may jeopardize fossil fuel development across the Permian basin. Heather DeShon , professor of geophysics at SMU, was one of the experts interviewed. 🧪🌎
Jacobs is emeritus professor in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences at SMU. He studies the fossils of animals with backbones to understand their evolution & how it fits together with the Earth & the environment, presenting a holistic picture of our world. 🦕🦖 🌍🧪@pbtscience.bsky.social
Picture of person with band-aid on arm after shot administered.
Asking people to imagine future regret could be a tool for increasing flu vaccination rates, according to new research from SMU. The research suggests the technique could apply to other preventive health behaviors involving single decisions, such as cancer screenings. 🧪🩺
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The roar of a T. rex, made iconic by Jurassic Park, has become the soundtrack of prehistory.
In reality, no one — not even paleontologists — can say for certain what dinosaurs sounded like, though there have been plenty of guesses.
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SMU PhD student Jake Klinkert is testing LLMs to create non-playable characters that act and respond more like real people. Klinkert and colleagues found GPT-4 achieved 73.98% accuracy in maintaining consistent personality traits.
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If wine adjectives feel like riddles, you’re not alone.
It's why SMU researchers turned to a technique called sentiment analysis — using AI to bring clarity to the tasting-note chaos for everyday wine drinkers.
A forest of burnt pine trees in Arizona with light snow covering the ground.
Research shows small, frequent #fires by Western Apache mobile hunter-gatherer groups controlled landscape-scale fire activity and and increased resiliency in their homelands. The study, published in @pnas.org by Southern Methodist University: cires.colorado.edu/spotlights/i...
Chemiluminescent compounds.
In a breakthrough that could significantly improve medical imaging techniques used to detect cancer and monitor treatments, SMU researchers have solved a decades-long puzzle about why certain light-producing molecules glow brighter in thicker solutions. 🧪⚕️
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Picture of two dinosaurs and an asteroid in the background.
With fossils and seismic images, a team led by SMU paleontology researchers has chronicled the history of Louisiana in the interval leading up to, during and soon after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth roughly 66 million years ago.🧪🦖🌎 www.smu.edu/news/researc...
New research on fire-scarred trees reveals Western Apache communities had far greater control over landscape fire patterns than scientists previously thought possible. Picture of wildfire in forest.
A new study led by SMU fire scientist Christopher Roos reveals that Western Apache communities had far greater control over fire patterns across Arizona than scientists previously believed possible. 🧪🌎 www.smu.edu/news/researc...
SMU researchers explore "sandbox" solutions to Affordable Housing Crisis https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/smu-compressed-earth-bricks-affordable-housing-texas/
Current Dinosaur Choir instruments were inspired by the Corythosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur that used its large head crest and nasal passages to create resonant vocal calls. SMU faculty member Courtney Brown plays one of the instruments during a performance at SMU.
Dinosaurs were singers. That revelation struck SMU faculty member Courtney Brown during a cross-country road trip, inspiring her to spend over a decade recreating the voices of creatures that went silent millions of years ago. 🧪🦕🎶
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Recent research reveals how AI is revolutionizing the centuries-old practice of wine evaluation, with implications for the industry and consumers alike. SMU researcher Jing Cao has been conducting research in wine economics since the early 2010s. www.smu.edu/news/researc...
Picture of Amin Salehi-Khojin, who led a team of researchers who created a more cost-effective, energy-efficient nanoribbon material that can better resist harsh conditions than current materials.
An SMU-led research team has developed a more cost-effective, energy-efficient material called high-entropy oxide (HEO) nanoribbons that can resist heat, corrosion and other harsh conditions better than current materials.
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Our graduating @SMU Master's students will exhibit their Thesis work in game development on May 9th from 11am-2:30pm. Come visit us to see the inspiring work they have completed in game art, design, production, programming, applied technologies, and gamification. RSVP: conta.cc/4cIdQRD
