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India Abroad: Civic incorporation of newcomers does not mean abandoning who...
The New York-based newspaper India Abroad covered the research of SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell in an interview with journalist Artthur J. Pais in the March 2 edition. Book a live interview To...
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Careers360: Learning the origins and evolution of mankind
The India-based career planning site Careers360 interviewed SMU professor Caroline Brettell for an article about a professional career as an anthropologist. Book a live interview To book a live or...
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Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today’s megafires are...
Unprecedented study relies on more than 1,500 years of tree-ring data and hundreds of years of fire-scar records gathered from Ponderosa Pine forests Today’s mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S....
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UPI: U.S. megafires put down to human activity
The new ancient fire research of SMU fire anthropologist Christopher I. Roos was covered by the international wire service United Press International. In a May 18 entry, UPI reported that Roos found...
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Climate Central: New Mexico Wildfire Now a Record-Setting ‘Megafire’
The research of SMU fire anthropologist Christopher I. Roos was covered by the popular Climate Central blog. In a June 2 entry, Climate Central science journalist Andrew Freedman wrote about the...
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CBS This Morning: Heat Wave Headaches and SMU Fire Research
Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Dr. Johannes Bauer in the SMU News Broadcast Studio call SMU News and Communications at 214-768-7650 or email SMU News at news@smu.edu....
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The Guardian: Weatherwatch: Hotter, drier summers may mean more forest fires
The research of SMU fire anthropologist Christopher I. Roos was covered by the United Kingdom’s widely read newspaper The Guardian. In his August 10 “Weatherwatch” column, “Hotter, drier summers may...
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Observatório da Emigração: Interview with SMU’s Caroline Brettell
Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Dr. Caroline Brettell in the SMU News Broadcast Studio call SMU News at 214-768-7650 or email SMU News at news@smu.edu. Related links...
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Hiding in plain sight: How invisibility saved New Mexico’s Jicarilla Apache
A nomadic tribe pushed into New Mexico by frontier settlement, the Jicarilla slipped off the radar and became the last tribe to avoid forced settlement onto an American Indian reservation North...
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Comet theory false; doesn’t explain cold snap at the end of the Ice Age,...
Most supposed impact indicators at 29 sites are too old or too young to be remnants of an ancient comet that proponents claim sparked climate change at the end of the Ice Age, killed America’s earliest...
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Nature: Prehistoric impact idea smacked down — dates of reported cosmic...
Widely followed science magazine Nature covered the research of SMU archaeologist David J. Meltzer with the article “Prehistoric impact idea smacked down.” Book a live interview To book a live or...
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Science: What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze?
Science, the widely read news outlet of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, covered the research of SMU archaeologist David J. Meltzer with the article “What Caused a 1300-Year...
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Daily Mail: A comet impact DIDN’T spark climate change and trigger a mass...
The U.K.’s Daily Mail news outlet has covered the research of SMU archaeologist David J. Meltzer with the article “A comet impact DIDN’T spark climate change and trigger a mass extinction 12,800 years...
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Zimbabwe Star: Comet not behind mass extinction at Ice Age end: Study
The Zimbabwe Star news outlet has covered the research of SMU archaeologist David J. Meltzer with the article “Comet not behind mass extinction at Ice Age end: Study.” Book a live interview To book a...
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Kennewick Man: genome sequence of 8,500-year-old skeleton solves scientific...
New study based on skeleton’s genome sequence shows Kennewick Man is in fact more closely related to modern Native Americans The locale in Washington State where Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996....
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KERA: DNA From Kennewick Man Shows He Was Native American, Says Study With...
The skull of Kennewick Man and a sculpted bust by StudioEIS based on forensic facial reconstruction by sculptor Amanda Danning. (Credit: Brittany Tatchell) KERA News reporter Justin Martin interviewed...
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Large genome-scale study finds Native American ancestors arrived in single...
No support for ‘Paleoamerican Model,’ which holds that Central and South American groups were relicts of an early and separate migration into the Americas This area around the confluence of the...
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Los Angeles Times: Native American origins: When the DNA points two ways
Scientists are analyzing ancient and modern DNA to learn more about how people first colonized the Americas. Pictured here: tools discovered in 1968 at a Clovis-era burial site in western Montana,...
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New York Times: Scientists Trace an Ancient DNA Link Between Amazonians and...
Karitiana children in their village near Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil. Scientists found that some people in the Brazilian Amazon have an ancient genetic tie to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and...
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SMU 2015 research efforts broadly noted in a variety of ways for...
SMU scientists and their research have a global reach that is frequently noted, beyond peer publications and media mentions. More SMU Research news California 6th grade science books: Climate change a...
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