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Study reveals cost, energy needed to pump Pacific Ocean water into Great Salt Lake

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 16, 2023
A new study by BYU engineers shows just how much it will cost, and how much energy it will take, to save the Great Salt Lake by pumping water in from the Pacific Ocean.
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Intellect

Deceivingly dangerous: BYU team creates first nationwide database tracking low-head dams across U.S.

By Shelby Clark
October 18, 2023
BYU research finds that more than 1,000 people have drowned because of low-head dams. In a massive effort to prevent future tragedies, BYU professors and students joined forces with a national task force to recently create the first nationwide database cataloging the location of more than 13,000 low-head dams.
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Intellect

Go behind the scenes with Mark Rober at BYU and the world's tiniest Nerf blaster

October 02, 2023
In Mark Rober’s latest sure-to-be-viral video, he pursues an epic journey to make the world’s tiniest Nerf blaster. That journey leads the engineer and YouTuber extraordinaire straight to his alma mater, Brigham Young University.
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Intellect

Serious fireworks: BYU students celebrating 4th of July with explosive win at collegiate rocket competition

By Shelby Clark
July 03, 2023
For the BYU Rocketry Team, celebrating the Fourth of July this year with fireworks just isn’t going to cut it. After all, fireworks that might shoot a few hundred feet in the air pale in comparison to the 10,000 feet their BYU rocket reached while winning the 2023 Spaceport America Cup.
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Intellect

BYU students designed and built a solar-powered concrete house on campus. Now it's in the Parade of Homes

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
June 08, 2023
For the first time ever, BYU will be a stop on the Utah Valley Parade of Homes. The reason? BYU students have designed, engineered and built a truly one-of-a-kind sustainable, transportable, affordable home — right on campus.
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Character

Cougar Query: Brent Webb

June 06, 2023
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Brent Webb, a professor of mechanical engineering.
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Intellect

BYU team using wearable nanocomposite sensor and AI to create prescription-like system for chronic back pain

By Emily Lambert
May 24, 2023
To find effective therapies for chronic low back pain, and to help curb opioid addiction, the NIH created the Back Pain Consortium Research Program. BYU is one of 10 major universities (along with Harvard, Ohio State and the University of Utah) tapped to help with this effort, and new work from researchers here has led to a system to prescribe patient-specific back pain remedies like doctors would prescribe medication.
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Intellect

BYU students engineer most fuel-efficient vehicle on the continent, drive away with national title

By Shelby Clark
May 11, 2023
Engineering students at BYU have built a vehicle that can travel from Provo to Niagara Falls on one gallon of gas. To be exact, it can travel 1,915.83 miles per gallon, an astounding distance that is not only the best in the United States, but the best across the Americas.
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Intellect

Awards season 2023: BYU students honored with prestigious scholarships, first-place finishes

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
May 09, 2023
Rise and shout! Across various disciplines, BYU students are being recognized for their world-class accomplishments.
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Intellect

A Q&A with a BYU hydrologist and flood expert as flooding threatens Utah this spring

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
May 01, 2023
In this Q&A, we hear from BYU civil engineering professor Jim Nelson, a hydrologist with decades of experience. He’s traveled across the country and the globe to consult with federal agencies, nonprofits and engineering consortiums to help better predict streamflows and plan for flooding.
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Intellect

BYU SIOY: Students across campus vie for big money to get innovative ideas off the ground

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 04, 2023
From products for ‘plant parents’ to AI-powered learning platforms for teachers, this year’s Student Innovator of the Year Competition covered a lot of ground. Held every year at BYU, SIOY showcases student innovators vying for bragging rights and cash to get their ideas off the ground.
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Intellect

New BYU-developed AI technology could benefit future Super Bowl opponents

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 07, 2023
New artificial intelligence technology being developed by engineers at Brigham Young University could significantly cut down on the time and cost that goes into film study for Super Bowl-bound teams (and all NFL and college football teams), while also enhancing game strategy by harnessing the power of big data.
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Intellect

Antarctic icebergs still exist today where 1700-era sailors spotted, tracked them

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 10, 2023
A new study comparing observations of large Antarctic icebergs from the 1700s with modern satellite datasets shows the massive icebergs are found in the same areas where they were pinpointed three centuries ago. The study shows that despite their rudimentary tools, the old explorers truly knew their craft, and it confirms that the icebergs have behaved consistently for more than 300 years.
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Intellect

Before BYU-Notre Dame starts up, BYU and Notre Dame startups will show out

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 06, 2022
Tabbed the Shamrock Series Innovation Rally, three startup companies from BYU and four startup companies from Notre Dame will come together at the Bellagio Hotel for an investor showcase sponsored by the technology transfer offices at both schools.


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Intellect

BYU profs create new micro nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely

By Emily Lambert
October 04, 2022
BYU professor and nuclear engineering expert Matthew Memmott and his colleagues have designed a new system for nuclear energy production: a molten salt micro-nuclear reactor that may solve meltdown risks.
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Intellect

BYU engineers etch entirety of The Book of Mormon on a microchip wafer

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 29, 2022
A group of innovative BYU students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department found a way to etch the entire text of The Book of Mormon onto a thin silicon disc (called a wafer in the electronics world) that can fit in the palm of your hand.


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Announcements

BYU and Air Force enter new educational partnership to foster ongoing collaboration

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 23, 2022
BYU and the U.S. Air Force have entered into a five-year agreement that formally authorizes faculty and students to work side by side with Hill Air Force Base personnel on Department of Defense research.
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Intellect

Back to the Future: BYU profs find 50s-era solution to modern engineering mystery

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 30, 2022
A group of BYU researchers have traveled back in time to solve a seemingly irreconcilable scientific mystery that has confused engineers and chemists for nearly two decades. And while they didn’t actually hit 88 miles an hour in a DeLorean like Michael J. Fox, the team did end up in the same time frame as Marty McFly, where they found the answer to a metals processing conundrum that has popped up in modern academic research.
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