Intellect

The NSF recently awarded the cybersecurity program within the BYU Electrical & Computer Engineering department with a five-year, $3.7 million grant called the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service. BYU is one of only six schools nationwide to receive the award this year, which recognizes students with technical talent, moral integrity, leadership, and second language skills.

Sixty percent of Americans believe in the idea that true love is found in a one-and-only soulmate relationship, confirming that the quest to find one’s soulmate continues to play a significant role in our modern dating culture. However, a new report finds that enduring connection in romantic relationships results more from the personal virtues and intentional efforts of the partners, than it does from spontaneous love and emotional spark.

Against the backdrop of iconic football memorabilia in the heart of the College Football Hall of Fame, a story of reconciliation and love took center stage last week. BYU students and professors were part of it.

Meet the newest nematode to be discovered on Earth: Steinernema adamsi, named after BYU professor Byron Adams. It’s not cute or cuddly, but it’s part of a special group of nematodes considered beneficial to humans because it can infect and kill insect pests.

An eye-catching new BYU study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.

In Tuesday’s forum, Harvard law professor Ruth Okediji explored a paradox: the stronger a nation’s commitment to religious freedom, the less a faithful presence Christians feel they can have in secular society.

The study abroad program in London lasts for a whole semester in winter and fall, or for seven weeks during the summer.

At BYU, Mane discovered more than just a center for scientific research; he found a community of faith and belonging.

In this Q&A, BYU nursing professor Katreena Merrill shares her decades of expertise and recent findings from her perfectly timed research (carried out with fellow BYU professor Beth Luthy) to help make navigating the cold and flu aisle at the store more manageable this winter.

For the past two years, through a semester-long, one-credit-hour course, BYU Japanese professor Steve Moody has meticulously prepared a group of seven to eight students to attend the Boston Career Forum for Japanese-English bilinguals. Big-name companies that regularly participate include Amazon, Bank of America and Nintendo, as well as powerhouse Japanese companies like SoftBank and Sumitomo. Among American undergraduates, BYU students studying Japanese are uniquely prepared to thrive in this job market.

From an unprecedented collaboration with a YouTube sensation to humanitarian projects that impacted local families, BYU students and faculty shared their light across the globe this past year. Take a look at some of the BYU video highlights of 2023.

The most viewed, read and shared BYU feature stories of the year

Information systems professors at BYU have created a technology using JavaScript that can detect online identity fraud simply by measuring interaction behaviors like keystroke speed.

It was an Education Week workshop that gave Alyssa Bagoyo the courage to major in chemical engineering and pay tribute to her late mom’s BYU degree and heritage by minoring in business and Japanese.

Accolades continue to pour in for BYU’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, as both the statistics and math departments have recently received national awards recognizing their programs as some of the best in the country.

New data from the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report shows BYU is tops in the United States for the most students who studied abroad this past academic year.

The 21st-century American trend to prioritize career, money and personal freedom over marriage is deeply misguided, argued W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, in Tuesday’s forum.

Thanks to new research from scientists at BYU and the University of Utah Health, researchers now have a more complete understanding of how chaperone molecules direct the protein folding process.