No. 1 program to be named March 11
BYU's public relations program has been named one of the top five PR education programs in the country by PR Week, an international public relations trade magazine.
Read MoreThat makes 9 top-three finishes in past 10 years
For the second year in a row, a BYU team won the Residential Construction Management Competition, the premier muscle match for construction management students. It’s sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders and held in Las Vegas in conjunction with the industry’s largest trade show.
Read MoreFormer U.S. Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy
James R. Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, will be speaking Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center Assembly Hall.
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In celebration of its 40th year of performing, BYU’s Young Ambassadors will be presenting “The New Music Makers” in the de Jong Concert Hall Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 11-13, at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee performance Saturday, Feb. 13, at 2 p.m.
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Christopher A. Mattson, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at BYU, won $400,000 and a top award for young scholars from the National Science Foundation called a "CAREER award."
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BYU’s Young Company will present a theatre for young audiences production of “A Thousand Cranes,” an award-winning true story of hope and love by Kathryn Shultz Miller, Feb. 2-13, at 7 p.m. in the Nelke Theatre, Harris Fine Arts Center.
Read MoreMiddle Eastern Texts Initiative focuses on Arabic scholars
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship announced the publication of the newest title in its Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. “Avicenna: The Physics of ‘The Healing,’” was translated by Jon McGinnis, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
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Microscopic nematode worms can be a potent organic insecticide. But when the worms are mass-bred for agricultural purposes, they tend to, as Byron Adams says, “wimp out,” and are not as deadly as their cousins that grow in the wild. The BYU biology professor and his students identified genetic changes in lab-raised nematode worms that make the organic insecticide less deadly to bugs.
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They turn Dad’s hair gray, but children can now take partial credit for the health of Mom’s heart.
Read MoreNearest iguanas to those on Tonga and Fiji are more than 5,000 miles away
How iguanas got to Fiji and Tonga - when their nearest kin live more than 5,000 miles away - has long puzzled scientists. A new study questions the notion that they made that long journey by raft. Instead, BYU biology professor Jack Sites and his coauthor say, they simply walked there when the islands were part of a larger land mass.
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BYU finance researchers identified charactersitics of stocks that turn out to be similar to lottery tickets - investors overpay for the slim chance they will hit it big.
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Industrial design students commissioned by the parent company of exercise brands Bally and Everlast proposed new fitness products at the culmination of their semester-long class project.
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