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Newswise: SMU’s Nicolay V. Tsarevsky named American Chemical Society Fellow
Released: 13-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
SMU’s Nicolay V. Tsarevsky named American Chemical Society Fellow
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, associate professor of chemistry at SMU, an ACS Fellow at a ceremony held in Denver.

Newswise: MinJun Kim awarded NSF grant for nanosensor technology that improves gene therapy
Released: 11-Sep-2024 5:05 PM EDT
MinJun Kim awarded NSF grant for nanosensor technology that improves gene therapy
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Nanotechnology expert MinJun Kim, the Robert C. Womack Endowed Chair Professor at SMU Lyle School of Engineering, and his research team have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to design a nanosensor that can improve the accuracy of gene therapy, enabling more effective clinical trials with fewer side effects.

Newswise: SMU Researcher Helps Develop New Technique to Explore Oceanic Microbes
Released: 4-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT
SMU Researcher Helps Develop New Technique to Explore Oceanic Microbes
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Alexander Chase and colleagues collect samples from Earth’s oceans using SMIRC, which could be the first step in uncovering compounds that lead to next-generation antibiotics.

Newswise: Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
22-Aug-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
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An international team led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents. In terms of their geological and tectonic plates contexts, these dinosaur fossils were found to be almost identical.

Newswise: Study revisits Texas seismic activity occurring before 2017, confirming connection to wastewater injection
Released: 6-Aug-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Study revisits Texas seismic activity occurring before 2017, confirming connection to wastewater injection
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There’s an important dividing line in the history of recent Texas earthquakes – those occurring before and after 2017, when the establishment of the Texas Seismological Network (TexNet) introduced the ability to monitor seismic events to much lower magnitude.

Newswise: Does transparency help or hurt business dominated by one-time transactions?
Released: 5-Aug-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Does transparency help or hurt business dominated by one-time transactions?
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For business owners that don’t regularly get repeat customers, such as contract workers or real estate agents, does being transparent about past business make them more or less likely to make a sale that benefits both them and the buyer? Economists from SMU and the University of Miami did a study to figure that out.

Newswise: SMU researchers to present new tool for enhancing AI transparency and accuracy at IEEE Conference
Released: 30-Jul-2024 12:05 PM EDT
SMU researchers to present new tool for enhancing AI transparency and accuracy at IEEE Conference
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While large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in extracting data and generating connected responses, there are real questions about how these artificial intelligence (AI) models reach their answers. That’s why SMU researchers Corey Clark and Steph Buongiorno are presenting a paper at the upcoming IEEE Conference on Games.

Newswise: Ground surface conditions impact speed and distance of leaking natural gas
Released: 16-Jul-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Ground surface conditions impact speed and distance of leaking natural gas
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When natural gas leaks from a subsurface pipeline, a ground cover of water/snow saturation, asphalt paving or a combination of these can cause the gas to migrate away from the leak site up to three to four times farther than through dry soil, a new study has found.

Newswise: SMU, U of Rhode Island patent inexpensive method to improve creation of solid-state nanopores
Released: 2-Jul-2024 6:05 AM EDT
SMU, U of Rhode Island patent inexpensive method to improve creation of solid-state nanopores
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SMU and the University of Rhode Island have patented an inexpensive, easy-to-use method to create solid-state nanopores (SSNs), while also making it possible to self-clean blocked nanopores.

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Released: 17-Jun-2024 12:05 PM EDT
SMU Team Taps Unused Fiber Cables for Earthquake Detection and Urban Monitoring
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After a devastating childhood earthquake in the Gujarat region of her home country of India, Jyoti Sharma often thought about creating an early earthquake warning system.

Newswise: New tool to detect protein-protein interactions could lead to promising avenues for gene therapy and other treatments
Released: 13-Jun-2024 6:05 AM EDT
New tool to detect protein-protein interactions could lead to promising avenues for gene therapy and other treatments
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SMU nanotechnology expert MinJun Kim and his team have developed a faster, more precise way to detect the properties and interactions of individual proteins crucial in rapid, accurate, and real-time monitoring of virus-cell interactions.

Newswise: Combining joyful activities with ‘savoring’ therapy shows positive mental health results among young people
Released: 15-May-2024 8:30 AM EDT
Combining joyful activities with ‘savoring’ therapy shows positive mental health results among young people
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Amidst rising depression rates on college campuses, SMU researchers discovered combining behavioral activation (BA) therapy with savoring (S) enhanced students' mental health. This approach improved both positive and negative moods significantly.

Newswise:Video Embedded rock-solid-evidence-angola-geology-reveals-prehistoric-split-between-south-america-and-africa
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Released: 1-May-2024 9:10 AM EDT
Rock solid evidence: Angola geology reveals prehistoric split between South America and Africa
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An SMU-led research team has found that ancient rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles in Angola clearly show a key part of Earth’s past – the splitting of South America and Africa and the subsequent formation of the South Atlantic Ocean.

Newswise: SMU Prof to Use NSF Grant to Develop Game-Based Semiconductor Curriculum for High School Students
Released: 15-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
SMU Prof to Use NSF Grant to Develop Game-Based Semiconductor Curriculum for High School Students
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) grant to SMU professor Lin Lipsmeyer and colleagues toward developing one of the first game-based semiconductor curricula for high school students.

Released: 10-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Experiencing Racial Discrimination Impacts the Mental Health of Teens in the U.S. Justice System
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A new study by SMU psychologists shows interpersonal racial discrimination and other forms of violence can impact the mental health of adolescents in the justice system.

   
Newswise: Pandemic Education Disruptions Likely Had Little Impact on Anxiety Levels of Autistic Teenagers
Released: 27-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Pandemic Education Disruptions Likely Had Little Impact on Anxiety Levels of Autistic Teenagers
Southern Methodist University

Study finds autistic teens' anxiety levels remained consistent amid COVID-19 disruptions to education, whether in-person, remote or homeschooled.

   

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