This is an announcement for the paper "Unconditional bases and strictly convex dual renormings" by R. J. Smith and S. Troyanski. Abstract: We present equivalent conditions for a space $X$ with an unconditional basis to admit an equivalent norm with a strictly convex dual norm. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B03; 46B26; 46B15 The source file(s), unc_basis_dual_sc.tex: 45412 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0811.4685.gz with size 14kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 101kb. Submitted from: smith@math.cas.cz The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0811.4685 or http://arXiv.org/abs/0811.4685 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0811.4685 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0811.4685 to: math@arXiv.org.