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MakerTruck

SMU MakerTruck Ready to Show Off its Hands-On Learning Tools

by | Oct 20, 2017
The truck is designed as help teachers learn about how to inject the hands-on learning tools at the heart of the maker movement into their classrooms
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SMU Announces Winners of ‘Big iDeas’ Competition
by | Oct 16, 2017
The students business ideas range from an app that incentivizes people to stay off their phones while driving to a bike-share program for SMU.
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iMasons Comes to Dallas to Engage Professionals in Future of Digital Infrastructure
by | Oct 2, 2017
The iMasons had its first Dallas meeting at Southern Methodist University Sept. 28 gathering technology and infrastructure professionals.
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facial recognition
Discovery: Facial Recognition, Big Leaves, Journalism & Tech
by | Sep 22, 2017
North Texas researchers are making important discoveries all across DFW and the globe. Here are three prime examples.
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Star Wars-inspired 3D Light Structures; Anti-Cancer Discovery & Curie Award

by | Sep 15, 2017
Researchers in labs across North Texas are making discoveries and breakthroughs. Here are three examples of the work being done by DFW scientists.
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New SMU Business Dean Sees More Tech in Cox School’s Future
by | Sep 14, 2017
Myers said the school will need to adjust how it approaches education because the North Texas business needs increasingly are more technology-driven.
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SMU, UTA Scientists To Help Unlock Mystery of Neutrinos
by | Jul 28, 2017
A massive particle detector a mile underground is the key to unlocking the secrets of a beam of neutrinos that will be shot beneath the Earth from Chicago to South Dakota.
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literacy
Dallas Team 1 of 8 Moving on in Literacy XPRIZE Contest
by | Jul 19, 2017
PeopleForWords — made up of members from Southern Methodist University and Dallas-based Literacy Instruction for Texas — was selected from 109 teams.
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SMU STEM Academy Launches DISD Teachers to New Heights

by | Jun 26, 2017
This summer, Dallas ISD teachers are going to school — learning ways to increase student interest in STEM subjects.
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Brian D. Zoltowski
SMU Chemist: Protein Helps Plants Know When to Bloom
by | Jun 13, 2017
The research focusing on how a protein reacts to sunlight could help farmers grow crops under any conditions or any climate.
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Female Change Makers Gather
at SMU for Leadership Fostering
by | Jun 8, 2017
The four-day Women Ambassadors Forum geared toward empowering women in leadership kicked off Tuesday and includes 32 ambassadors from 19 countries.
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Corey Clark
SMU Researchers, Gamers Partner on Cancer Research
by | Jun 5, 2017
Adding the processor power of the network of "Minecraft" gamers could double the amount of computer power devoted to the SMU research project.
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geothermal

SMU Researchers Find
West Virginia Geothermal Spots

by | May 26, 2017
The heated energy sources were discovered in the Mountain State by examining previously overlooked oil and gas data.
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The Hive makerspace
Schools Turn to Makerspaces to Build Better Thinkers, By Design
by | May 24, 2017
Alcuin School's The Hive — funded in part by Bottle Rocket's Calvin Carter — and other makerspaces, are bringing the startup ethos to Dallas area schools. Alcuin is also boosting social entrepreneurship with $1 million from the J.C. Saada Family Foundation.
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Simon Mak and Jason McCann
Is Your Company ‘Dallas 100’ Worthy? Put It In the Running For Annual Entrepreneur List
by | May 22, 2017
The awards program recognizes the fastest-growing privately held companies in the Dallas area.
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Mobile Makerspace Once Known as SparkTruck Rolls Into Town
by | May 19, 2017
The big, boxy California transplant is being adopted by SMU and will be retooled for Texas to help teachers fuel the creative spark in students.
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