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Barlow Endowment Awards More Than $80,000 to Composers Selected for 2017 Commissions

August 22, 2016
The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University proudly announces recipients of its Barlow Prize, General and LDS 2017 commissions.

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Intellect

A Grander Aspiration: Giving a Willing Mind and Heart

August 22, 2016
“The product of the mind is our business. [However,] it is more the heart than the mind that defines us," said Academic VP Brent Webb, on success at BYU comes by being thoughtful and heartfelt.

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Intellect

Find Ways to Increase Inspiring Learning In and Out of the Classroom, President Worthen Urges

August 22, 2016
President Kevin J Worthen tells BYU faculty and staff to focus on creating opportunities that both inspires students to learn and provides inspiration for more learning. 

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Intellect

Increased Opportunities for Education are Vital, Elder Clark Tells BYU Employees

August 22, 2016
“We need to educate more deeply and more powerfully than we have ever done before or than anyone has ever done,” said Elder Kim B. Clark, commissioner of the Church Educational System, to faculty and staff at BYU.

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Announcements

National Expert Meets with BYU Leaders on Sexual Assault

August 17, 2016
Clinical psychologist Dr. David Lisak (who was interviewed in Jon Krakauer’s Missoula and The Hunting Ground doc) lent his expertise to BYU. Here, he talks about what he said. 

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Intellect

People disregard security warnings on computers because they come at bad times

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 16, 2016
Software developers listen up: if you want people to pay attention to your security warnings on their computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times.

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Faith

Elder Holland Makes a Case for Why Religion Matters

August 15, 2016
Speaking at the BYU Education Week Devotional, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said the power of faith is the most enduring force in human history.

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Character

BYU Grad: The Tiny Choices That Shape Our Lives

August 10, 2016
“Our lives are shaped by tiny choices,” said Kaia Hodgson. “Although there are some that seem big and important, it’s really the small and simple decisions that we frequently make that have the greatest impact.”

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Character

BYU Degree: A Dream 52 Years in the Making

August 08, 2016
Russell Henriksen came to BYU in 1979 but left before earning a degree. Now, after years of wanting, He is renewed with a sense of hope, and a degree, to help shape his future.

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Character

BYU Grad’s Path Breaks With Tradition

August 08, 2016
Valen Auna Cox’s educational path has been anything but traditional. The “perfect” plan she made after high school was quickly derailed by Mr. Right. Now, 40 years later, she is finally walking away with her degree.

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Announcements

Title IX Update

August 08, 2016
BYU learned Thursday, August 4, that the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is adding the university to its list of more than 200 postsecondary institutions under investigation. These investigations relate to the federal government’s requirements for responding to reports of sexual assault.
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Character

Focusing on People and the Moments that Matter Most: A Q&A with the Student Commencement Speaker

August 07, 2016
At BYU's Commencement exercises this month, Marcos Gallo will represent the graduates as the student speaker. Like his fellow classmates, Gallo, has accomplished a lot during his time at BYU. 

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Intellect

40 pictures from Mark Philbrick's 40-year photography career

August 04, 2016
Mark A. Philbrick retires this month after an incredible 40-year career as the university photographer.
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Intellect

BYU Curators Help Digitize Scout Archive

August 03, 2016
In the late 1800s, Robert Baden-Powell—a war hero, adventurer, actor and sometimes a spy—sat down with a pencil and paper and wrote out his idea of “scouting for boys.” That document, along with hundreds of others that show the worldwide development of scouting for girls and boys, is safely stored in the Scout Association Archive in Gilwell Park, England. For years, anyone wanting to research the origins and history of scouting needed to travel to the archive and work with the archivists.
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Intellect

Fully Invested in Finding a Cancer Cure

August 02, 2016
Jenny Pattison hates cancer for killing her father. She's using that passion to find a cure for this disease. 

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Faith

Prophets, Seers and Revelators Topic of BYU Devotional

August 02, 2016
At the Devotional on Tuesday, Moore talked about how he could see that the view from a tower enabled a person to detect threats that could harm olive, fig and grape vineyards.

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Character

Cougar Queries: "No blessing will be denied the faithful . . . we finally got to be in a Wymount Ward."

July 31, 2016
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them a few simple questions about their work, interests and life. Today we meet David Moore, a J. Reuben Clark Associate Dean and Professor of Law.

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Intellect

BYU AdLab Helps Hospital-Bound Kids Play Pokémon GO

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
July 26, 2016
As hospitals around the country ban Pokémon GO to preserve safety and security, a group of BYU advertising students have developed a solution that allows sick kids to play the game without impeding hospital functionality.

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Events

Leslie Odom Jr. Replaces Kristin Chenoweth for BRAVO! Season Opener

July 26, 2016
Performance date and time: Saturday, Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m. (Friday, Sept. 2, is sold out) Ticket prices: $40-75 Available at byutickets.com The Brigham Young University 2016-17 BRAVO! Professional Performing Arts Series opens Sept. 2 and 3, at 7:30 p.m., with two special performances from Leslie Odom Jr., Tony Award-winning star of the hit musical Hamilton. Odom makes his Utah concert debut—backed by a live band on a program of smooth jazz and classics from the American songbook—in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. Odom was originally scheduled to perform only one night, but tickets immediately sold out for Friday’s performance. Tickets for the Saturday night performance are on sale now.
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Character

Cougar Queries: "My wife and I met during first rehearsal."

July 25, 2016
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them a few simple questions about their work, interests and life. Today we meet Wade Hollingshaus, Chair of the Theatre and Media Arts Department. 

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Faith

BYU Devotional: Finding Hope in Our Condition on Earth

July 25, 2016
For decades, BYU Theatre and Media Arts Department Chair Wade Hollingshaus has been contemplating Samuel Beckett's poignant line, "[Y]ou’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that."
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Intellect

BYU study shows a fourth of Utah HOV lane users are breaking rules

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
July 20, 2016
Newly published research from BYU civil engineers finds that up to 25 percent of vehicles in Utah’s high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes during rush hour are violating carpool requirements.

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Intellect

Alzheimer's Disease Facts and the Future, Topic of BYU Forum

July 19, 2016
Most people have a loved one or acquaintance who is dealing with the heartache of Alzheimer's disease. For Keoni Kauwe, a professor of biology, that loved one was his grandmother, Hattie Serrao, he said at the Forum on Tuesday.
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Faith

BYU Devotional: "The Truth Shall Make You Free"

July 11, 2016
Our world is filled with differing views, opinions and philosophies, and, due to extraordinary advancements in technology, we have greater access to all of this information now than ever before.
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Intellect

The key to return customers: Fishing for compliments

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
July 09, 2016
New research from BYU and Utah State University finds that simply asking customers to share positives about their experience results in repeat business and more money spent.

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Character

Cougar Queries: "I teach singles how to find exultant ecstasy in eternal marriage."

July 07, 2016
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them a few simple questions about their work, interests and life. Today we meet Michael Goodman, professor of Church History. 

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Cougar Queries: "Our research has helped to discover 19 new genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease."

July 07, 2016
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them a few simple questions about their work, interests and life. Today we meet Keoni Kauwe, associate professor of biology. 

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Events

BYU Conference Welcoming Six Renowned Authors to Provo

July 05, 2016
Spend a couple of days catching up with some of the biggest names in children’s literature this July. 

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Events

BYU Education Week Set for August 15-19

July 05, 2016
BYU professors, LDS seminary and institute instructors, and experts from a variety of fields will teach 1,000 classes on a wide variety of subjects at BYU's Campus Education Week.

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Events

Strengthening Ties at BYU Family History Conference

July 05, 2016
"Strengthening the ties that bind families together forever" is the theme of the 48th annual Conference on Family History and Genealogy, to be held July 26-29 at the BYU Conference Center. 

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