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Cougar Query: Mary Davis

April 08, 2024
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Read Full Story

BYU professor’s designs featured on new Congressional Gold Medal

By Tyler Stahle April 03, 2024
A new Congressional Gold Medal featuring the designs of BYU illustration professor Justin Kunz was recently unveiled at a ceremony held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Read Full Story

Devotional: The tree, the fruit and the building

By Kailey Marshall April 02, 2024
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. Read Full Story

Cougar Query: Rick Anderson

April 01, 2024
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Read Full Story

Green-thumb dynasty: BYU landscaping wins fifth national championship in six years

By Todd Hollingshead March 27, 2024
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. Read Full Story

Forum: How to be a confident pluralist

By Christie Allen March 26, 2024
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.” Read Full Story

More than money, family and community bonds prep teens for college success

By Christie Allen March 21, 2024
Family bonds make the difference in getting teens to college, BYU study says. Read Full Story

Devotional: Rise to your divine identity, purpose and destiny

By Kailey Marshall March 19, 2024
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. Read Full Story

Innovative group of BYU students roll out new AI tech to solve parking problems

By Shelby Clark March 19, 2024
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. Read Full Story

Q&A with President Reese on BYU’s undergraduate teaching focus

By Aaron Sorenson March 15, 2024
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. Read Full Story