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Intellect

Challenges and myths: How do we combat disinformation?

By Erica Ostergar
October 09, 2018
Haroon K. Ullah, Chief Strategy Officer for the United States Agency for Global Media, spoke at BYU on Monday about the online information battlefield.
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Intellect

Dust storms on Saturn’s largest moon: what can they tell us about Earth’s dunes?

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
October 08, 2018
The images showed three unusual brightenings over fields of dunes near the equator of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Captured by the Cassini spacecraft, the images provided a glimpse of an environmental phenomenon only otherwise seen on Earth and Mars: dust storms.
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Intellect

Animation nabs top ranking

By Whitney Steele
October 03, 2018
It’s a good year for BYU’s Center for Animation: in May BYU animation students won E3’s College Game Competition, and now BYU tops the Animation Career Review’s ranking of animation schools with Bachelor of Science programs.
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Faith

BYU Devotional: Humble uncertainty

By Erica Ostergar
October 01, 2018
Scott Miller, dean of the BYU College of Humanities and professor of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, spoke at Tuesday’s devotional about having faith through times of darkness and uncertainty.
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Character

Cougar Query: "You should never ask a professor about a favorite anything"

By Erica Ostergar
September 30, 2018
Name: Scott Miller
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Intellect

Checked off "the talk" with your teen? Not so fast: one isn't enough

By Jayne Edwards
September 30, 2018
Patting yourself on the back for gritting through “the talk” with your kid? Not so fast: new research from BYU family life professor Laura Padilla-Walker suggests that when it comes to your teens, one vague and generic conversation about sex is not enough.
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Announcements

Coach Rose’s 100K charity challenge winnings become endowment for BYU’s cancer research center

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 26, 2018
New endowment named for Dave and Cheryl Rose family
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Announcements

BYU assumes control of old Provo High School property

September 24, 2018
The former Provo High School facility, along University Avenue, has now been turned over to Brigham Young University.
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Character

Building a team of believers, BYU head football coach Kalani Sitake inspires Knight Society

September 24, 2018
At the tender age of six, Kalani Sitake’s world came crashing down.
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Intellect

BYU Forum: News and national security

By Erica Ostergar
September 24, 2018
Judith Miller, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, City Journal contributing editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with The New York Times, delivered the forum address on Tuesday. She discussed the current climate for newspapers and why journalism matters so much.
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Announcements

Access to Education Records—FERPA—Annual Notice

September 21, 2018
Student education records at BYU are generally accessible to eligible students according to the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). BYU has adopted Access to Student Records Procedures that explain in detail student rights relating to their education records.
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Intellect

The way you move post-surgery is connected to long-term success of ACL reconstruction

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 17, 2018
A third of people who undergo ACL reconstruction surgery will have osteoarthritis in their injured knee within 10 years. Within two decades, nearly 50 percent will — terrible odds for getting a debilitating condition with no known cure.
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Faith

BYU Devotional: Loving our neighbors

By Erica Ostergar
September 17, 2018
Carolina Núñez, associate dean and professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, spoke at Tuesday’s BYU Devotional about lessons we can learn from the Good Samaritan about loving our neighbors.
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Character

Cougar Query: "Every time I travel, it changes the way I view the world"

By Erica Ostergar
September 13, 2018
Name: Carolina Núñez
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Intellect

Fighting bad air quality with ... dance?

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
September 11, 2018
When Keely Song moved to Utah in 2016, she was jarred by what she called the “apocalyptic” talk about air quality during the state’s notorious inversions. So when BYU announced in November it would be providing free UTA passes to students, employees and their families, the dance professor had an idea.
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Faith

BYU Devotional: Choosing joy and receiving revelation

By Erica Ostergar
September 10, 2018
President Kevin J Worthen and Sister Peggy S. Worthen welcomed students back to campus with the first devotional of the semester. They shared insights on how students can use their experiences to cultivate joy and to receive revelation.
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Announcements

BYU Sites: A free service to manage department websites

September 09, 2018
In 2019, BYU will launch a free service called BYU Sites to help employees who manage a website for their department.
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Intellect

'Wherever we are, that's who we are': 50-states docuseries explores place and identity

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
September 09, 2018
Update (July 1, 2020)
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Intellect

BYU genetic researchers solve a giant mystery: How Shawn Bradley got to be so tall

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 05, 2018
Former basketball pro has incredibly unique combination of genetic variants that affect height
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Announcements

Toasting 21 years “Stone Cold Sober”

September 04, 2018
As a salute to BYU students, who play a crucial part in retaining this distinction, BYU Dining Services announced a new flavor of chocolate milk that pays homage to the university’s signature mint brownies.
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Events

Devotional and forum schedule for fall semester 2018

By Erica Ostergar
August 27, 2018
Every Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty and staff head to the Marriott Center for the weekly Devotional or Forum address. BYU President Kevin J Worthen and his wife Peggy kick off the semester and are followed by members of the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU employees and a range of industry leaders and thinkers. Entertainment assemblies celebrating the talent of BYU Arts round out the semester schedule.
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Announcements

BYU moving to a single annual commencement ceremony

August 26, 2018
Brigham Young University will hold a single annual commencement ceremony each year starting April 2019.
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Intellect

Become Zion through love and learning, President Worthen directs

By Erica Ostergar
August 26, 2018
Speaking to BYU faculty and staff, President Kevin J Worthen reflected on a prophecy from John Taylor and shared how to use learning to become more Zion-like.
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Faith

15 inspiring quotes from Education Week 2018

By Erica Ostergar
August 23, 2018
BYU's 26th annual Education Week comes to a close on Friday. Here are some of the inspiring lessons attendees learned from their classes.
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Intellect

BYU researchers develop a new wildfire smoke emissions model

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 22, 2018
Hazy, smoke-filled skies can have serious health effects
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Intellect

BYU prof takes a dive into ‘The Far Side’

By Alexa Reimschussel
August 21, 2018
In Kerry Soper’s new book, “Gary Larson and The Far Side,” the BYU comparative arts and letters professor discusses the comic’s complex and strange humor, artistic variance from the norms of its day and impact on modern alternative comedy.
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Faith

BYU Devotional: Using every enticement to progress spiritually

By Erica Ostergar
August 20, 2018
During her Education Week Devotional, Sister Joy D. Jones, Primary General President for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke about agency and using enticements to propel spiritual growth.
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Intellect

BYU internet security research garners Facebook praise

By Whitney Steele
August 19, 2018
You know the green lock in the corner of your browser? That symbol represents thousands of lines of code program developers went through to encrypt your data so an attacker cannot read or modify it. The software used to make your Web communication secure is notoriously hard for developers to use, but a BYU team developed a new system that cuts the thousands of lines of code down to just a few.
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Announcements

BYU appoints new Dean of Students

August 16, 2018
Student Life Vice President Janet S. Scharman has announced the appointment of Sarah Ingram Westerberg as dean of students at Brigham Young University.
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Character

August 2018 Commencement speakers: Look beyond yourself, find joy in service

By Erica Ostergar
August 15, 2018
During Thursday's August Commencement Ceremony, Elder Brent H. Nielson, General Authority Area Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared with students advice he wished he had heard at the time of his BYU graduation.
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