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Intellect

BYU seeks to develop students of faith, intellect, and character. In addition to teaching classes, most BYU professors also conduct research in their academic field. Students – even at the undergraduate level – participate in research and publish their work alongside a faculty mentor. Here are the stories of what they discover together.

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BYU traffic study: No more left turns on busy streets

June 19, 2018
BYU traffic engineers Grant Schultz and Mitsuru Saito are on a mission to stop people from making left turns on busy roads. It’s not because they want to make life more difficult; it’s because they want to save it.

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AdLab takes best in show for 'One More Giant Leap'

June 15, 2018
For the second consecutive year, students from BYU’s AdLab have won best in show at the country's largest advertising competition.

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BYU students win E3 game competition

June 14, 2018
With their genre-bending "Beat Boxers," BYU animation students take the top prize at E3's College Game Competition.  

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Study: Patients maintain muscle mass five years after surgically-induced weight loss

June 12, 2018
Newly-published research from BYU provides important evidence supporting the long-term safety and viability of bariatric surgery.

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Study: Today’s dads are engaging more with their kids

June 11, 2018
Whether it’s physically being there for a baseball game or piano recital, or emotionally being there to provide warmth or support in a tough time, there appears to be a shift in how fathers are viewing their roles.

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Keep calm and carry on: Mothers with high emotional, cognitive control help kids behave

May 31, 2018
A new parenting study led by professor Ali Crandall finds that the greater emotional control and problem-solving abilities a mother has, the less likely her children will develop behavioral problems such as throwing tantrums or fighting.

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Scientists reveal the secrets behind Pluto's dunes 

May 30, 2018
An international team of scientists have discovered a series of dunes on Pluto — a finding that indicates the planet's surface is younger and more dynamic than previously thought.

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Study of Android users: How to get people to pay attention to mobile security notifications

May 23, 2018
Using brain data, eye-tracking data and field-study data, a group of BYU researchers have confirmed something about our interaction with security warnings on computers and phones: the more we see them, the more we tune them out.

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Study: Hockey players born October through December score more and are paid more

May 23, 2018
With youth hockey teams being organized by age groups, the idea has persisted that kids born earlier in a year have a greater athletic advantage than kids born later in the year. BYU researchers show a trend reversal happening.

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BYU Forum: Self-flying vehicles

May 21, 2018
Randal Beard, professor of Electrical Engineering and the recipient of BYU’s Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, delivered the Forum address on Tuesday. He discussed the technology in autonomous vehicles and how he anticipates the field progressing in the future.
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Digital lab lands students major clients

May 20, 2018
BYU's new digitial and social media agency has students completing real-world work for such clients as Pepsi Co. and Subaru.

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Video is opening up new types of research for organization studies

May 16, 2018
Management professor Curtis LeBaron is an expert in analyzing video recordings of human behavior, specifically using those skills to help organizations pinpoint the onset of problems or successes.

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Chevron Phillips Chemical teams up with BYU researchers to speed up catalyst development

May 02, 2018
New research from a BYU and Chevron Phillips team could help open doors to tackle “grand challenges in catalysis chemistry.”

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Reaching for the sky: A Q&A with the student commencement speaker

April 23, 2018
Jared Blanchard will represent the graduates as the student speaker at BYU’s Commencement exercises this month. Like many of his fellow classmates, he has accomplished a lot during his time at BYU.

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Early diagnosis catalyst to student’s music career

April 23, 2018
At the tender age of two, Larson was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. Doctors prescribed any activity that would keep Larson’s fingers in motion: finger painting, Play-Doh and piano.

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Runnin' down a dream

April 20, 2018
He's run four 100-milers, including one in Alaska's sub-zero temps. In July, he'll take on the world's toughest footrace: 135 miles through Death Valley.

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BYU students create hands-free device that automatically opens doors for wheelchair users

April 19, 2018
They’ve created a device that attaches to the motor on automatic doors so that they open automatically as a wheelchair user approaches. Wheelchair users need only download an accompanying smartphone app

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The extraordinary geological adventures of Hannah Bonner

April 19, 2018
While at BYU, Hannah Bonner led the BYU Mars Rover science team, published a book with maps of prehistoric Utah, studied landslide risks near the Three Gorges Dam in China and researched toxic algae blooms in Utah Lake.

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