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Calendar Highlights: Oct. 4, 2007
Bye-bye, Bye: “The Photography of Landscape Architect A.E. Bye” (top right) begins its final week in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center’s Pollock Gallery. The exhibition ends Oct. 13. Gallery hours are 11...
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Research Spotlight: New fossils challenge old preconceptions
For paleobotanist Bonnie Jacobs standing atop a mountain in the highlands of northwest Ethiopia, it’s as if she can see forever – or at least as far back as 30 million years ago. Jacobs (right), an...
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SMU fossils, expertise to be an ongoing part of new Perot Museum
A 35-foot skeletal cast of the Early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur Malawisaurus stands sentry in the spacious glass lobby of the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. SMU paleontologist...
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Four professors honored with 2013 Ford Research Fellowships
Four SMU professors were honored with 2013 Ford Research Fellowships during the University’s May Board of Trustees meeting (left to right): Thomas Ritz, Bonnie Jacobs, Michael Corris and Suku Nair....
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Research: SMU scientists help solve the mystery of climate and leaf size
Why is a banana leaf a million times bigger than a common heather leaf? Why are leaves generally much larger in tropical jungles than in temperate forests and deserts? The textbooks say it’s a balance...
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Research: SMU-led fossil study finds carbon dioxide link to global warming 22...
Variations in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide affect carbon fixation during photosynthesis and can be measured on a preserved fossil leaf like this one from Ethiopia. Fossil leaves...
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