In her Tuesday morning devotional, Dawan Coombs, an associate professor of English, spoke powerfully about the divine identity of all of God’s children. She taught how the knowledge of this divine heritage can serve as a lifeline in the times of confusion, trial or indecision. Read Full Story

BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has particular expertise in the planning, design, construction and operation of public water systems. That expertise has been increasingly important (and regularly sought out) in the wake of apocalyptic wildfires that have taxed those public water systems. Read Full Story

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

Using machine learning and math, a BYU student improved a key tool firefighters rely on during wildfire season Read Full Story

“Sometimes the pursuit of academic and professional excellence and the pursuit of discipleship are framed as being in tension with each other,” William Clayton said in his devotional address. “My experience is that these pursuits can actually reinforce each other in important ways when we keep our eye single to the glory of God.” Read Full Story

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

Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Justin Collings has appointed two new deans: Christopher “Chip” Oscarson in the College of Humanities and Diane Reich in the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Read Full Story

With 574 tribes, countless treaties and evolving court decisions, Native American law can be a complex maze. BYU law professor Michalyn Steele has spent her career helping navigate that maze in defense of Native rights and sovereignty. Read Full Story

Richard Houseman, dean of BYU Continuing Education, gave his devotional address Tuesday morning in the Marriott Center. He centered his remarks on a powerful spiritual pattern of going toward light, being filled with it and then sharing it. Read Full Story

Eighty years after D-Day, BYU geologists uncover lingering WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches to study how history still shapes the coastline today. Read Full Story