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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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Faith

Devotional: Our own best story

By Kailey Marshall
April 11, 2023
“Over the years, I have been intrigued by connections that transform our physical world,” Elder Gerrit W. Gong acknowledged during his Tuesday devotional address at Brigham Young University. “For each of us, connection and transformation are also at the heart of our own best story.”
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Intellect

BYU projects show how students are prepared to make an impact on the world

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
April 11, 2023
From developing creative ways to teach math to planting trees along the Provo River, recent scholastic and civic projects from BYU students prove that an education that integrates faith, emotion, and intellect produces leaders with devoted hearts and purposeful souls.
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Intellect

BYU students shine at 42nd College Television Awards with multiple top accolades

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
April 05, 2023
The Television Academy Foundation announced the winners of the 42nd College Television Awards or “Student Emmy’s” earlier this week and BYU students once again claimed the top spot in the best animation series and the best commercial.
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Faith

Devotional: Spiritual Lessons from the Natural World

By Kailey Marshall
April 04, 2023
Loreen Allphin, an associate dean in the College of Life Sciences, found solace in nature during a traumatic event in her life, and that experience taught her the power of gaining an eternal perspective from Heavenly Father's creations.
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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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Character

Cougar Query: "My favorite lecture to teach is on our environmental stewardship as members of Christ's Church."

April 04, 2023
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Loreen Allphin, associate dean in the College of Life Sciences.
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Intellect

Utahns are ahead of the curve in baby-naming trends, but still plenty quirky

By Christie Allen
March 30, 2023
Brooks, Hudson, Milo, Oakley, Navy: if you want to predict the top U.S. baby names of 2033, take a look at some of Utah’s popular names in 2023. Although Utahns are known for their one-of-a-kind monikers — such as Treysen or Swayzee — a new book edited at BYU shows that Utah parents have a long history of anticipating mainstream American naming fads.
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Intellect

Forum: Lessons from the past show how to heal America

By Christie Allen
March 28, 2023
Plagued with rising inequality, polarization and social isolation, America is in a tough spot and morale is at a historic low — but we’ve been here before, and our predecessors can show us the way forward, said Shaylyn Romney Garrett in Tuesday’s forum.
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Intellect

Can AI predict how you'll vote in the next election?

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
March 27, 2023
BYU study proves artificial intelligence can respond to complex survey questions like a real human.
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Announcements

C. Shane Reese named Brigham Young University’s 14th president

March 21, 2023
The Board of Trustees of Brigham Young University has appointed C. Shane Reese as the university’s 14th president. Reese will succeed Kevin J Worthen, who has served as president since 2014.
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Intellect

ForGOT Milk? BYU students address drop in dairy milk drinking with 'legen-dairy' packaging designs

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 15, 2023
A group of 25 BYU food science, industrial design and graphic design students are helping address the decline in dairy milk consumption by creating more appealing labels and packaging for cow milk.
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Faith

Devotional: Beautiful babies blessing the world

By Kailey Marshall
March 14, 2023
Elder Johnson, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told the devotional audience that the Lord sent them to the earth for specific reasons, and for this specific time.
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Intellect

Pornography use at any level harms romantic relationships, says new BYU study

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
March 09, 2023
Avoiding pornography is vital to developing a healthy and long-term romantic relationship, says a new study from BYU.
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Faith

Devotional: Spiritual creation

By Kailey Marshall
March 07, 2023
After 25 years of producing content for television, Andra Duke has come to realize that the creation process is godly and is an opportunity to share gospel truths. As she delivered Tuesday’s devotional at Brigham Young University, she focused her remarks on the spiritual potential we each have to be the creators of our own lives.
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Intellect

Ancient artifacts uncovered by BYU archaeologists reveal the 'roots of Casas Grandes'

By Christie Allen
March 07, 2023
At an excavation site in northern Mexico, BYU archaeology students and professors recently discovered artifacts that have been buried for 1,000 years, including pottery sherds, hammer stones, maize kernels and — intriguing at a location 250 miles inland — a shell bead from the Pacific Ocean.
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Character

Cougar Query: I love the quiet moments spent in the mountains

March 07, 2023
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Andra Duke, director of content for BYU Broadcasting.
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Intellect

What type of GIF user are you?

By Emily Lambert
March 02, 2023
When you get a text from a friend, is your immediate reaction to reply with a GIF? Do you know which GIF to send, or do you begin to scroll, searching for the perfect one? If so, it may mean more than you realize, according to researchers at BYU.
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Intellect

Forum: My mother Theresa

By Christie Allen
February 28, 2023
In her forum address, Angela Duckworth argued that to flourish, we must reconcile the apparent paradox that we are both controlled by our circumstances and able to control our circumstances.
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Intellect

BYU study examines how missionary service helps female students find strengths, make informed career decisions

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
February 28, 2023
The study found that female Latter-day Saint students at BYU who take gap time to serve a mission were more likely to be accepted into limited enrollment programs and find majors with higher expected salaries.
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Intellect

Family history knowledge helps American adolescents develop healthy sense of identity

By Christie Allen
February 23, 2023
A new BYU study found that adolescents who had the healthiest identity development — both a sense of connectedness to family and adherence to their own beliefs — also had high levels of family history knowledge.
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Intellect

BYU AdLab students collaborate with Utah Jazz to create a film debuting at All-Star weekend

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
February 17, 2023
As the basketball world descends on Utah this weekend for the NBA All-Star game, basketball enthusiasts will have a chance to watch a short film created and produced by BYU AdLab students and the Utah Jazz organization.
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Faith

Devotional: Preserving our relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ

By Kailey Marshall
February 14, 2023
“Have you ever had an experience where you notice a particular make, model, or color of a car on the road, and then it seems like you can’t escape seeing it all over the place?” asked Sister Tracy Y. Browning. In her devotional address at BYU on Tuesday, Sister Browning, the second counselor in the Primary General Presidency, said that this phenomenon is known as “frequency illusion.”
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Intellect

BYU ranked No. 3 in the nation for producing most U.S. Fulbright Scholars

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 10, 2023
Today the U.S. State Department recognized BYU as a Top Producing Institution for U.S. Fulbright Scholars — a prestigious recognition for a handful of U.S. universities with the most individuals selected for the Fulbright Scholar Program. BYU’s nine Fulbright Scholars rank the institution No. 3 among doctoral research institutions.
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Announcements

Associate vice presidents appointed in BYU Office of Belonging

February 08, 2023
Vice President for Belonging Carl Hernandez appointed Lita Little Giddins and Julianne Grose as associate vice presidents in the Office of Belonging.
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Faith

One day with the Savior: A master class in leadership

By Kailey Marshall
February 07, 2023
"Follow Him. Lead like He leads. Bless as He blesses. Lift as He lifts. Love as He loves."
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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

Forum: A higher purpose for religious education

By Christie Allen
January 31, 2023
In Tuesday’s forum, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, described religious education as a potential antidote to America’s pervasive consumerism.
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Intellect

Women are routinely excluded from exercise research across the country. A new BYU study shows why that’s misguided

By Christie Allen
January 26, 2023
A new BYU study debunks the assumption that menstrual cycles disqualify women from exercise research. Analyzing women’s exercise performance across their menstrual cycles, researchers found no variability in endurance thresholds or performance: from workout to workout, women’s performance was just as consistent as men’s.
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Faith

Devotional: Why a Church?

By Kailey Marshall
January 24, 2023
“Why do we need a Church, especially this Church?” This question was posed by Elder Kevin S. Hamilton, a General Authority Seventy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as he delivered Tuesday’s devotional address.
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