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Intellect

BYU student uses the gift of language to bless others

By Shelby Clark
November 01, 2023
For first-generation college student Sarah Davila, growing up near the sunny Florida coast consisted of playing on the beach, learning English in school and making traditional Colombian food with her mom. Davila’s parents had moved to the United States a few months before Davila was born, hoping to provide her with a bright future.
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Intellect

BYU English professor collaborates with public schools to support adolescent reading

By Christie Allen
October 12, 2023
When she received an email from a former student one evening, BYU English professor Dawan Coombs experienced déjà vu. The former student, a graduate of the BYU English teaching program, was desperate for help with the seventh-grade reading class she was now teaching.
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Intellect

Seeing the American West through Maynard Dixon’s eyes

By Christie Allen
July 12, 2023
A Q&A with BYU art history professor about the Museum of Art’s current exhibit
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Intellect

BYU professor explores link between the bicycle’s forerunner and the Tour de France

By Christie Allen
June 29, 2023
As the world gears up for the 110th annual Tour de France this July, a BYU professor shares the rich history of the bicycle in France.
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Faith

Devotional: That ye may be prepared

By Kailey Marshall
June 27, 2023
Chip Oscarson, an associate dean in Undergraduate Education at Brigham Young University, expressed the importance of obtaining a transformative education, including spiritual and secure knowledge.
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Character

Cougar Query: Chip Oscarson

June 27, 2023
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Chip Oscarson, an associate dean in undergraduate education.
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Character

From struggle to strength: How faith and community transformed the life of BYU student Jeremiah Tolento

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
April 13, 2023
For Tolento, a first-generation college student, the BYU experience was deeper than a world-class education. It was a place that helped him realize his full divine potential – a caring community of faith and friends unlike he’d ever experienced before.
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Intellect

Utah owes many of its most quirky expressions to pioneers, says research from BYU linguist

By Christie Allen
July 20, 2022
“Sluffing” school, saying you “fill” sick, the particular pronunciation of “t” in “mountain”: many will recognize these peculiarities of Utah speech, but are any of them truly exclusive to Utah?
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Announcements

BYU names new interim dean, associate dean and department chairs

June 28, 2022
Academic Vice President Shane Reese announced new administrative appointments, including an interim dean, associate dean and five new department chairs. All these new hires are effective July 1.
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Character

Fueled by a love of literacy, BYU graduate anxious to serve

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
April 11, 2022
“It’s been a privilege to come to BYU, and I want to make sure I’m living up to that incredible privilege. I feel called by God to a life of teaching and helping those who might be less fortunate.”
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Intellect

Curious about Utah’s frontier women? Browse BYU’s new database of women’s newspaper ads

By Christie Allen
July 20, 2021
A single bottle of tonic to cure diabetes, cancer, ulcers and dizziness. Raisins and currants for Christmas mince meat pies. Midwifery courses taught by a certified female doctor, $30 a term. A souvenir stone from the Hill Cumorah, “guaranteed genuine,” mailed from New York for 25 cents.
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Intellect

BYU No. 1 in the nation for launching business, foreign language Ph.D.s

By Christie Allen
April 06, 2021
BYU prepares more future Ph.D. students in both business management and foreign languages than any other university in the United States.
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Intellect

BYU students sweep writing contest, win new short story dispenser for campus

By Christie Allen
January 21, 2021
Among competition from Harvard, Carnegie Mellon and other top schools, BYU students swept the contest, winning all of the first-place juried prizes.
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Character

BYU Italian professor combats student “Zoom fatigue” with online cooking sessions

By Christie Allen
January 20, 2021
The cooking sessions in professor Marie Orton’s Italian 361 class represent her passion for helping students to connect—with each other, with her, with the subject matter. Orton said her teaching methods are inspired partly by the examples of many colleagues in the unique language programs at BYU.
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Character

BYU students, creator of Alexa develop software to preserve Cambodian stories

By Christie Allen
December 09, 2020
By recording nearly 5,000 life stories during the past few years, BYU’s Cambodian Oral History Project has brought to light many narratives long suppressed by the trauma of the late 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, during which nearly two million Cambodians were killed or died.
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Intellect

Tired of staring at your phone? Grab a short story from BYU’s new dispensers

By Christie Allen
November 04, 2020
Two new vending machines on BYU's campus will print out free short stories, poems and essays on rolls of receipt paper. One is on the library's ground-floor thoroughfare and another is taking stops all across campus.
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Intellect

BYU professor helps courts solve 60 cases as language detective

By Christie Allen
September 25, 2020
Dr. Eggington has had plenty of exciting moments as a forensic linguist. What he really cares about—why he became a linguistics professor to begin with—is using his knowledge of language to help others.
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Intellect

BYU Project seeks to connect generations of Cambodian families

By Brenna Seeman
August 05, 2020
Launched in January of 2016, the Cambodian Oral History Project works to collect and preserve the records of the Cambodian people.
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