Intellect

In an effort to encourage competitive skills in a complex labor market, a group of MBA students and professors from the BYU Marriott School of Business recently spent two weeks in Ghana, consulting with businesses and working with Ghanaian BYU-Pathway students.

NASA’s Dragonfly mission will send a robotic spacecraft to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, where scientists hope to uncover clues about the building blocks of life. The mission is scheduled to launch in July 2028 and, with two short years to go, a group of BYU researchers has been tapped by NASA to understand the landscape and interpret what they will find.

As legalized sports betting becomes increasingly accessible with mobile apps such as DraftKings and FanDuel, a new study from BYU Finance professors is finding people are saving less to fuel gambling habits.

Thousands of the world's languages remain largely invisible to modern translation technology, but researchers and students at Brigham Young University are working to change that.

NOTE: All birds were captured and handled by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources with appropriate permits.

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, a BYU professor is bringing the nation's first printed Declaration of Independence back to life.

When Curt Holman learned he had been selected as the recipient of the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Lecturer Award, he was surprised. As a faculty member in the arts, he never expected to receive an honor often associated with BYU’s most distinguished scholars and educators.

With the NBA Draft a day away, new research from BYU stats professor Jared Fisher offers front offices a smarter way to predict how it’ll all play out.

Since 2021, BYU Nursing professors and students have been helping transform mountain rescue so that Hindu pilgrims can worship with increased safety. Part of the broader Mountain People Project founded by nursing professor Craig Nuttall and co-operated with Summers, BYU established the first medically-trained helicopter airlift program in the region to evacuate people to the main trauma center.

Newly published research from The Consortium for Evaluation of Faith and Ethics in AI (CEFE-AI) — a collaboration among researchers at BYU, Baylor University, the University of Notre Dame and Yeshiva University — found a consistent, repeatable pattern: religious perspectives are being left out of AI responses.

A recent BYU engineering capstone team took on the challenge of designing an improved backpack localization device for APOPO, a global organization that has deployed HeroRATS for more than 25 years. APOPO’s rats have helped save millions of lives by sniffing out explosives in war-torn regions and detecting tuberculosis in laboratory settings.

Positioned behind her camera, BYU journalism student and photographer Abby Shelton captured the raw emotion of the U.S. women’s hockey team’s semifinal victory to advance to the gold medal game, describing the moment as “epic” — witnessing peak athleticism on one of the world’s biggest stages through her own lens.

With the federal officials expecting an 8% shortage in full-time RNs in the US by 2028, and the World Health Organization expecting a shortage of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, a recent surge in nursing program applications is promising news. But there is a major complicating factor: young nurses are experiencing widespread early-career burnout. Enter BYU Nursing.

BYU engineering students keep finding ways to squeeze more miles out of a gallon of gas. For the third time in the last four years, BYU has won the Shell Eco Marathon, meaning they’ve once again built the most fuel efficient supermileage vehicle in all the land.

On display this Easter season, “The Way of the Cross” invites viewers into a reflective journey through Christ’s final hours, blending illustration, music and tradition.

Seventeen BYU students earned five nominations across three categories, standing out among more than 185 entries submitted by colleges nationwide.

Jean Twenge, researcher, author and professor of psychology at San Diego State, spoke to BYU campus today about how technology has shaped recent generations of Americans, particularly Gen Z’s reliance on cell phones. She also shared ideas on what behavioral changes society could make to combat those trends.

BYU graduate students are playing a key role in research aimed at closing a mental health gap for Pacific Islanders — a group long overlooked in traditional services, due to the topic possibly not being well addressed.