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Technology Boom Feeds the Immigration Boom
Taos Project Requires Hard Work, Soft Skills
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Faculty ExpertsChildren in the Legal System  Law Lecturer Jessica R. Dixon provides expert commentary and explanations on the ongoing legal wrangle concerning the polygamy case in West Texas. She is Director of SMU’s W.W. Caruth Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic and supervises law students who serve as guardians and attorneys ad litem for abused and neglected children.Steaming into the Future  David D. Blackwell is a nationally-recognized expert in geothermal energy and SMU's top scholar on energy resource estimates and geothermal exploration. The SMU Geothermal Lab he directs is a partner in the
U.S. Department of Energy's "GeoPowering the West" project to promote awareness of geothermal energy resources in the western United States.
Read more.
Texas in Play  The
star scholar on Lone Star politics, Cal Jillson is saying "Texas is in
play, though in different ways, on both sides. . ." Read more.For more experts Contact SMU News and Communications at 214-768-7650 or newsinfo@smu.edu. |
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Highly educated Asians
are drawn to technology jobs that spur growth, which creates opportunities in construction and other services for less skilled immigrants, mainly from Mexico.
Twenty-First Century Gateways, a new book on immigration co-written and co-edited by SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell,
explores this boom-feeding-boom phenomenon.
Work has begun on a research project that will bring together University faculty and students, Taos community leaders, private landowners, and local, state and federal government agencies. 
