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What’s New at BYU for May 2010

April 22, 2010
What's New at BYU for May 2010.

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BYU Young DanceMakers celebrate animal life in concerts May 7-8

April 21, 2010
The Young DanceMakers will perform “An Evening of Dance — All Creatures Great and Small” Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, at the de Jong Concert Hall.

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BYU students develop innovative prosthetic hand for a young mom

April 19, 2010
BYU engineering students spent their senior year developing a custom prosthetic hand for a young mom who lost her fingers after being stricken with septicemia, a life-threatening blood infection.

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BYU Fine Arts and Entertainment Calendar for May-August 2010

April 19, 2010
Fine arts events for spring and summer terms at BYU.

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Entrepreneur, Princeton Review list BYU finance program in top 15

April 18, 2010
The Princeton Review’s Student Opinion Honors rates the Marriott School of Management’s MBA finance program among the top 15 in the nation.

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BYU students win North, South America investment competition

April 18, 2010
A team of three MBAs and two undergraduates from the Marriott School of Management recently won the Americas Investment Research Challenge sponsored by the CFA Institute. The team will now represent the Americas region at the Global Investment Research Challenge in Hong Kong.

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BYU grad receives national top dissertation award

April 15, 2010
Jeff Jackson, a recent Ph.D. graduate in marriage and family therapy, was granted the 2010 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Dissertation Award for his thesis, “Premarital Couple Predictors of Marital Relationship Quality and Stability: A Meta-Analytic Study.”

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Non-BCS players more productive than BCS players in the NFL, draft analysis shows

April 15, 2010
With the NFL draft upon us, a new analysis by a BYU student shows that the BCS label blinds NFL executives from drafting the best players available.

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College material: BYU student prepped local Latinos for higher ed

April 15, 2010
BYU student Dayan Bernal faced a real-world challenge when she crossed the street to teach at Provo High School: the 10th graders in her class didn’t seem like college material, even in their own minds.

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Announcements

BYU seventh in the nation for grads that get Ph.D.s

April 14, 2010
BYU undergrad Patrick Turley is dealing with a very good problem: He can accept only one of the grad school offers he’s received from Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Chicago and Cal-Berkeley.

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U.S. News: BYU top 50 in business and law

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 14, 2010
Brigham Young University's law and business schools are again among the top 50 in the United States, reports U.S. News & World Report in its "America's Best Graduate Schools" issue. Other BYU graduate programs and specialties rank in the top 100 in their categories.

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BYU student filmmaker wins national People's Choice Award

April 13, 2010
Aaron Ludwig, a sophomore animation student, has won the first-ever Sparky Awards Peoples’ Choice prize for his short film, “Clueless Discovery.” The video was voted the best by students and others everywhere in an open online vote held earlier this Spring.

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Changes made to BYU repeat and withdrawal policies

April 12, 2010
In order to assist students in their progress toward graduation, bring the university into compliance with new federal Title IV regulations and ensure students’ continued access to Federal Pell Grants and Federal Stafford Loans, BYU has modified its repeat and withdrawal policies.

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BYU electrical engineers program robot cars to play capture the flag

April 12, 2010
BYU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recently unveiled its next senior project series: small cars that not only drive themselves but have the brains to compete autonomously in strategic games.

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Annual Institute of Applied Statistics at BYU June 16-18

April 12, 2010
The 35th Annual Summer Institute of Applied Statistics, sponsored by the BYU Department of Statistics, will take place Wednesday through Friday, June 16-18, in 203 James E. Talmage Building. The topic will be “Bayesian Reliability” and will feature C. Shane Reese.

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Fear of getting fat seen in healthy women’s brain scans

April 12, 2010
A group of women in a new study seemed unlikely to have body image issues – at least their responses on a tried-and-true psychological screening presented no red flags.

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BYU animators win 10th ‘student Emmy’ despite losing key students to movie studios

April 11, 2010
Over the weekend the BYU Center for Animation picked up its tenth “student Emmy” in the past seven years, this time for the farceX-ing, about an ill-fated pair of lovesick armadillos at a truck stop.

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UVU, BYU host human rights symposium April 12-14

April 11, 2010
A symposium titled "God and Human Rights: Are Faith or Foundations Necessary?" will be held Monday-Wednesday, April 12-14, at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University.

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Announcements

BYU student film takes home two ‘student Emmys’

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 11, 2010
BYU student film Inspector 42 won two "student Emmys" over the weekend, taking home best drama and the "Directing Award" for best overall director.

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BYU music student wins 'student Emmy' for music

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 11, 2010
BYU music student wins a "student Emmy" from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.

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Elder D. Todd Christofferson to preside at BYU Commencement April 22

April 07, 2010
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be the speaker and presiding authority at the April 2010 Commencement ceremonies Thursday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in the Marriott Center.

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BYU Model United Nations team continues its winning ways in NYC

April 07, 2010
Returning from its 20th competition, BYU’s nationally ranked Model United Nations program brought home two outstanding delegation awards for the sixth year in a row — receiving the highest award and ranking among the top one percent of participating universities.

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Ancient Israel subject for David M. Kennedy Center lecture April 14

April 05, 2010
Adam E. Miglio, assistant professor of archaeology at Wheaton College, will be speaking Wednesday, April 14, at 11 a.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building. Miglio’s lecture will be titled “Tribes, States and Ancient Israel.”

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BYU Phi Kappa Phi chapters honors faculty, students

April 05, 2010
Members of the Brigham Young University community were recognized for their achievements during the annual spring banquet for The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

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Gene Pokorny plans tuba recital, demonstration at BYU April 12

April 04, 2010
Gene Pokorny, principal tuba player for the Chicago Symphony and a former member of the Utah Symphony, will be featured in a guest recital Monday, April 12, at 5:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.

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BYU student becomes 11th Goldwater Scholarship winner

April 04, 2010
A Brigham Young University student was recently named a recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. This marks the 11th BYU student in six years to receive the national honor.

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Government intelligence topic for pair of lectures at BYU April 7

April 01, 2010
Brigham Young University’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies will be hosting two lectures about government intelligence on Wednesday, April 7.

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BYU Hunter Law Library ranked 25th in the country

April 01, 2010
The National Jurist, a magazine that reaches an estimated 100,000 law students, ranked BYU’s Hunter Law Library 25th among 198 law libraries nationwide. The ranking was determined based upon a variety factors: comfort, accessibility, convenience and most importantly in this increasingly digital age, availability of the latest technological tools.

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BYU engineers improve eye-tracking technology that aids the disabled

March 31, 2010
A BYU student engineering team improved technology for a company that offers eye-tracking devices, used primarily by disabled people to control computers.

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Drip for drop, BYU students make clean water cheaper, simpler

March 31, 2010
BYU students engineered a cheaper, simpler system that purifies water and is a good fit for poor, remote villages where clean water sources are scarce.

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