The 1999-2000 season of Southern Methodist University's Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series features a best-selling author and historian, a ground-breaking scientist, an award-winning composer, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and internationally renowned political leaders and commentators.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will speak at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on October 12, 1999, as part of the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series. The topic of Archbishop Tutu's lecture will be "The Search for Spiritual Values in Today's World."
Texas Governor George W. Bush will give the address at Southern Methodist University's 84th annual commencement ceremony on May 15.
The Y2K issue and heart defibrillators on airplanes will be some of the topics discussed at this year's annual SMU Air Law Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Air Law and Commerce at Southern Methodist University.
The approach of the second millennium has become a worldwide phenomenon, feared by some and anticipated eagerly by others. Will it bring a Golden Age or the end of the world as we know it? Or, to the rational skeptics in our midst, will it be simply the passing of another calendar year.
The world's oldest and most primitive duck-billed dinosaur, dating back more than 95.5 million years, has been discovered by a paleontologist at Southern Methodist University.
The holiday season may be the first opportunity that some parents get to see first-year students who have left for college. While sharing presents and catching up on family news, parents may want to look for signs of health problems their students may have, say campus health officials at Southern Methodist University.
International conflicts often appear as simmering disputes that suddenly erupt into full-scale war, taking the world by surprise. In reality, says a Southern Methodist University political scientist, war is at least as predictable as the economy. All it takes is listening to a countryÃs mass media.
New, highly potent compounds that effectively treat penicillin-resistant infections have been developed by a research chemist in Southern Methodist University's Dedman College.
Semiconductor researchers have developed a software model to simulate the thermal effects along with the electrical effects during the design stage of the smallest integrated circuits. It can run simultaneously with computer-aided design tools to ultimately reduce the design cycle time of semiconductors.
The scene was a tiny village on the Venezuelan savanna where anthropologist Pei-Lin Yu of Southern Methodist University was living among the PumÈ Indians in order to study their way of life. It was the rainy season in September 1992 and thanks to a good hunting trip, everyone was dining on venison. YuÃs fellow researcher tossed some leftover bones into a fire rather than brave a torrential downpour to throw them in the trash outside of camp. A PumÈ friend nicknamed P. J. entered their thatched-roof house and saw the bones mixed in with the coals.
Scientists from Southern Methodist University and the University of Colorado have found stone monuments in the Sahara Desert that may represent the earliest known efforts to mark astronomical events.
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