Research and Innovation Week

Research and Innovation Week is SMU's showcase of the exciting research being done by our undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.  Members of the SMU community and the public are invited to join us to learn about the groundbreaking research being done at SMU.  Research and Innovation Week 2023 will take place Monday, March 20-Saturday, March 25.

 

Research & Innovation Week 2023 Events

Taylor Shead

Keynote Talk

Date: Monday March 20, 2023

Time: 6:00 PM

Presentation by Taylor Shead, CEO and founder of STEMuli Studios.

This panel will take place in the Hughes Trigg Student Center Auditorium.

Contact Information:

aitkin@smu.edu

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Undergraduate Poster Session

Date: Tuesday March 21, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM

Poster presentations by SMU undergraduates in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom.

Contact Information:

asneal@smu.edu

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Graduate Poster Session

Date: Wednesday March 22, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM

Poster presentations by SMU graduate students and postdocs in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom.

Contact Information:

aitkin@smu.edu

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professor and student working in a lab

Faculty Panel: Graduate Education and the Future of Research in North Texas

Date: Thursday March 23, 2023

Time: 3:30 PM

Featuring:

  • Stephen Arrowsmith, Associate Professor and Hamilton Chair in Earth Sciences, SMU
  • Dinesh Bhatia, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UT Dallas
  • Annie Ginty, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University
  • Ramon Lopez, Professor of Physics, UT Arlington
  • Floyd Wormley, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, TCU

This panel will take place in the Hughes Trigg Student Center Auditorium

Contact Information:

aitkin@smu.edu

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Master of Fine Arts Qualifying Exhibition Opening Reception

Date: March 25, 2023

Time: 4:00 PM

MFA students Sara Dotterer and Ian Grieve present (De)Compose, their thesis exhibition. An interdisciplinary show with works spanning painting, sculpture, virtual reality, and projection—artistic processes that allow decomposition or erasure to be a part of the composition of the work, emphasizing the power of cyclical ways of working.  The opening reception will take place from 4-6pm on Sat., March 25, 2023, in the Pollock Gallery (Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75206).  The exhibition continues through April 15.

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