Devotional: The tree, the fruit and the building
Rick Anderson, the university librarian, explored symbols from Lehi’s vision in the Book of Mormon as he delivered Tuesday’s devotional. He emphasized the choice individuals face between following worldly wisdom and finding joy in partaking of God's love.
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Cougar Query: Rick Anderson
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
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Green-thumb dynasty: BYU landscaping wins fifth national championship in six years
For the fifth time in six years, BYU students dug, pruned and planted their way to the National Collegiate Landscaping Competition title, the March Madness of college landscaping teams. BYU bested 50 other universities in the four-day event, outscoring the second-place finisher by more than 358 points and breaking the 5000-point total for the first time in the 48-year history of the tournament.
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Forum: How to be a confident pluralist
In a democracy where people hold many conflicting views, how do we each honor our own values while making decisions together? Grappling with that question in Tuesday’s forum address, Harvard professor Danielle Allen encouraged her audience to meet this challenge by becoming “confident pluralists.”
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More than money, family and community bonds prep teens for college success
Family bonds make the difference in getting teens to college, BYU study says.
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Devotional: Rise to your divine identity, purpose and destiny
Elder Brian K. Taylor, a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, focused his Tuesday devotional address on the importance of understanding the plan of salvation and our divine nature.
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Innovative group of BYU students roll out new AI tech to solve parking problems
A group of enterprising BYU students aim to significantly — if not entirely — reduce parking violations in paid parking lots, college and otherwise. And their idea, an AI detection and tracking system called Spot Parking (more on that in a minute), just got a major endorsement and $12,000 in cash by winning the 2024 BYU Student Innovator of the Year (SIOY) competition.
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Q&A with President Reese on BYU’s undergraduate teaching focus
In this Q&A series with President Reese, he shares more about the seven initiatives he shared in his 2023 inaugural response and how they apply to BYU employees.
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BYU math videos aim to transform equations into excitement
From calculating the perfect bottle flip to understanding how much force is behind a penny dropped off a skyscraper, Math the World videos creatively answer the age-old math question, “When will I ever use this?”
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Devotional: Our path to lasting personal peace
Prior to delivering Tuesday’s devotional address, Steve Hafen, BYU’s administration vice president and CFO, found himself reflecting on two interrelated questions: 1) how can individuals increase the frequency and depth of peace in their lives?, and 2) what is the role of the Savior's Atonement in this process?
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