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Pathway to Provo: How musician Ariana Abadia found peace and purpose at BYU

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
September 06, 2023
At BYU, Abadia says she has strengthened her complete character and she’s eager to use her talents to extend love and hope. She envisions returning to Ecuador to help shape the country’s music curriculum and make an education in the arts more accessible to students; maybe even starting a school to teach voice to young students.
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Intellect

BYU projects show how students are prepared to make an impact on the world

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
April 11, 2023
From developing creative ways to teach math to planting trees along the Provo River, recent scholastic and civic projects from BYU students prove that an education that integrates faith, emotion, and intellect produces leaders with devoted hearts and purposeful souls.
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Intellect

Can AI predict how you'll vote in the next election?

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
March 27, 2023
BYU study proves artificial intelligence can respond to complex survey questions like a real human.
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Intellect

Pornography use at any level harms romantic relationships, says new BYU study

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
March 09, 2023
Avoiding pornography is vital to developing a healthy and long-term romantic relationship, says a new study from BYU.
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Intellect

What type of GIF user are you?

By Emily Lambert
March 02, 2023
When you get a text from a friend, is your immediate reaction to reply with a GIF? Do you know which GIF to send, or do you begin to scroll, searching for the perfect one? If so, it may mean more than you realize, according to researchers at BYU.
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Intellect

BYU acoustics capture the sound of NASA’s Artemis I launch

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
January 04, 2023
A BYU acoustics team, noted for studying the world's loudest sounds, shares its first-hand account of measuring audio levels during NASA's epic Artemis launch in November.
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Intellect

What type of Hallmark Christmas movie viewer are you?

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
December 19, 2022
Participants were asked to sort through a group of statements based on the question: ‘Why I love Hallmark Christmas movies?’ The results revealed three factors or groups of like-minded thinkers, the Season’s Greeters, the Rudolphs, and the Carolers.
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Intellect

Social media conversations are driven by those on the margins, says new BYU research

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
November 28, 2022
The study found that most people – moderate Democrats and Republicans – are self-censoring their comments on social media to not create contention, lose friends online, or be perceived a certain way.
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Intellect

BYU scientists collaborate with astronomers around the world to understand distant galaxy

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
October 04, 2022
BYU’s West Mountain Observatory was one of 37 ground-based telescopes throughout the world monitoring the active galaxy that is roughly 1 billion light years away.
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Intellect

Children with autism benefit when parents are trained to provide at-home interventions

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
September 05, 2022
Training and empowering parents to offer at-home interventions to children with autism spectrum disorder helps children improve in positive behaviors and language communication skills says a new study from BYU.
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Intellect

School wellness centers: An innovative response to student stress and suicide

By Christie Allen
August 31, 2022
Of the 752 students, 124 parents, and 69 staff surveyed, all three groups believed the wellness center reduced students’ anxiety and depression. Students who were more likely to experience marginalization or extra stressors reported that they used and benefited from the center the most.
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Intellect

BYU research debunks widespread spaceflight lore

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
August 30, 2022
When the Saturn V rocket propelled man to the moon in 1969, the blast from the rocket’s engines was tremendous. The monumental event gave rise to widespread claims that the acoustic force of the rocket melted concrete and ignited grass fires miles away. New research from BYU debunks this common myth.
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Intellect

BYU student’s research solves an icy dwarf planet mystery

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
May 09, 2022
The dwarf planet Haumea has befuddled modern scientists for years. New BYU research details the planet's creation and solves one of astronomy's puzzles.
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Mother of four earns graduate degree, hopes to teach sociology

By Katie Child
April 21, 2022
All within the past five years, Jordan Coburn graduated with a double major in sociology and Spanish, worked as an English tutor, had four children and earned her graduate degree in sociology.
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Meet the BYU music grad who taught Cosmo to play the bell tower

By Christie Allen
April 14, 2022
Over the past four years, associate university carillonneur Amber Dahlberg has enjoyed what she calls “the best view” of BYU. From the carillon inside the top of the bell tower, the BYU student has performed hundreds of the university’s traditional 30-minute noon recitals, providing an inspiring campus soundtrack for students, staff and visitors going about their business.
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Intellect

BYU Law leads list of BYU graduate programs moving up in U.S. News rankings

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 29, 2022
BYU Law has earned its highest U.S. News ranking to date, rocketing up six spots from last year and coming in at No. 23 in the 2023 Best Graduate School rankings released today. The Marriott School of Business once again ranks high and the BYU Nursing program makes a big jump.



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Intellect

BYU study finds increasing uplifts leads to better marital outcomes for parents of children with autism, Down syndrome

By Trevor Jones
March 21, 2022
Respite care may allow parents of children with disabilities to step back and recount specific moments of joy with their children, which results in an uplift. Experiencing more uplifts might counteract the detrimental effect of stress on parents.
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Intellect

Cultivating feelings of indebtedness to God results in increased happiness, desire to serve others

By Katie Child
March 15, 2022
BYU research found that beyond increasing overall happiness and well-being, indebtedness to God was also related to increased religious involvement, spirituality, attachment to God and pro-social behavior, or how much service and kindness people show to others.
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