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Events

Gladys Knight to Headline BYU Spectacular!

July 05, 2016
Legendary soul and R&B star Gladys Knight will perform during BYU Spectacular! on Sat., Oct. 15. The live concert will be held in the Marriott Center, at 2 and 7:30 p.m., for BYU’s Homecoming Week celebrations.

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Intellect

Searching for Alien Comets: BYU Researchers Create Guidebook to Aid in First Discovery

By Brooke Adams
June 30, 2016
Treasure needs a map, vehicles need a manual, and, as it turns out, interstellar discoveries need a guidebook.

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Intellect

Beetles are coming to eat all our trees. Their eyes may be the key to stopping them

June 29, 2016
The Emerald Ash Borer is eating its way across America. Next stop? Utah. But not if BYU biologists can do something about it.

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Intellect

The irony of awkward: Taking yourself out of uncomfortable situations makes you more uncomfortable in the long run

By Brooke Adams
June 28, 2016
Not all withdrawn individuals are the same, but for emerging adults who do everything they can to avoid social interaction, combining that with things like violent video games or pornography can cause big problems.

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Faith

BYU Devotional: Navigating Our Way Through Life

June 27, 2016
BYU Mechanical Engineering Professor Tim McLain is fascinated with figuring out ways for unmanned aircraft (drones) to find their way from one location to another. For him, this topic is both technically interesting and a good metaphor for our mortal journey through life, he said at the Devotional on Tuesday.
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Intellect

Professors Create Chemistry Camp to Fill Void, Inspire Young Minds

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
June 27, 2016
Chemistry Professor Daniel Ess was looking for a local and rigorous summer science camp to enroll his 10-year-old daughter in when he encountered a problem—there weren’t any.

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Character

Cougar Queries: "If all goes well, George Jetson's aircraft will exist in my lifetime."

June 27, 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 Tim McLain, professor of mechanical engineering. 

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Intellect

Physics Professor Makes Nanomagnetism Discovery

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
June 22, 2016
Dr. Karine Chesnel has always been fascinated with understanding how things work, particularly the secrets of magnetism. After years of research, she's discovered how to control a phenomenon called Magnetic Domain Memory.

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Intellect

3D Printing for Dummies

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
June 21, 2016
What you sculpt is what you get.

A new method of 3D printing created by Computer Science Professors Michael Jones and Kevin Seppi removes the amount of skill required to design an object for 3D printing.

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Faith

BYU Devotional: Connecting With Our Love for the Lord

June 21, 2016
Many years ago, BYU German Professor Michelle Stott James shared a profound spiritual experience with Sister Columba, a Catholic nun, that touched her to the deepest center of her being, James said at the Devotional on Tuesday.
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Faith

Fathers—Earthly and Heavenly—Praised in BYU Young Ambassadors’ Video

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
June 19, 2016
Brigham Young University’s Young Ambassadors celebrate Father’s Day this year with a new video release, “My Heavenly Father Loves Me,” featuring guest violinist Megumi Terry, and families and friends of the Young Ambassadors.
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Character

Cougar Queries: "I left my heart in the opera house."

June 17, 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 Michelle Stott James, professor of German.

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Events

BYU Theatre to Produce U.S. Stage Premiere of Academy Award-Winning Film Chariots of Fire in March 2017

June 17, 2016
In March 2017, the true-to-the-faith stories of British runners Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams will be rekindled in a live stage production of Chariots of Fire as part of the BYU Arts theatre season. 

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Intellect

BYU Student Receives Prestigious Boren Award

June 16, 2016
Michael Swain, a BYU sophomore and native of Las Vegas, has been awarded a Boren Scholarship to study language in Japan during the 2016-17 academic year.
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Intellect

Disney Princesses: Not Brave Enough

By Brooke Adams
June 16, 2016
Gendered behavior can become problematic if girls avoid important learning experiences. BYU professor Sarah M. Coyne looks at how Disney Princesses play a role.

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Events

Elder Craig Christensen to Speak at August Commencement

June 14, 2016
Elder Craig C. Christensen, of the LDS Church's Presidency of the Seventy, is scheduled to be the speaker during BYU's Commencement exercises on Thursday, August 11, in the Marriott Center. 

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Announcements

Why the Y looks a bit different right now

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
June 14, 2016
Noticed the Y looks a little odd lately? Don’t worry, you’re not losing your mind.

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Intellect

BYU Animated Short Wins Student Emmy, Makes Shortlist for BAFTA Award

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
June 09, 2016
The BYU Center for Animation has a history of earning accolades for its student-created animated short films each year. 2016 has been no different.

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Character

BYU Photographer Captures National Award

June 09, 2016
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) announced that it has awarded a 2016 Circle of Excellence Platinum Award to BYU University Photography Manager Jaren Wilkey for his portfolio of photographs. Wilkey's images competed against the top entries from each of CASE’s eight districts to capture the top award for photography in education.
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Faith

BYUDevo: Finding a Stable Anchor Not in the Harbor, but in the Stormy Seas

June 06, 2016
While living in Christchurch, New Zealand, BYU Associate Academic Vice President Alan Harker was surprised to see boats heading out of the harbor just as a devastating storm was entering, he said at the Devotional on Tuesday.
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Character

Cougar Queries: "A merit badge counselor changed the eventual course of my life."

June 05, 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 Alan Harker, associate academic vice president for Research and Graduate Studies.

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Events

BYU stages new opera, “The Lost Children of Hamelin”

June 05, 2016
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Intellect

This desert plant defies gravity by collecting water upside-down with tiny leaf hairs

June 05, 2016
Syntrichia caninervis (aka seriously awesome desert moss) uses tiny hair-like structures on its leaves to absorb water from the atmosphere until droplets form and flow to the leaf. And sometimes it does it upside-down.

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Announcements

New Dean for BYU College of Engineering and Technology

June 01, 2016
Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Brent W. Webb announced this week that Michael A. Jensen has been named the new dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering & Technology.
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Events

Conference on Religious Freedom to be held at BYU, July 7-8

May 31, 2016
Elder Lance B. Wickman, general counsel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Utah Valley University President Matthew S. Holland will be among the speakers at the Religious Freedom Annual Review. 

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Faith

BYUDevo: Finding True Superheroes and Princesses to Emulate

May 31, 2016
BYU Human Development Professor Sarah Coyne pulled from her research – she studies the effect of the superheroes and princesses on children – to talk about how to find the reality of true royality. 

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Character

Cougar Queries: "My favorite TV show growing up was 'Rainbow Brite.' I'm definitely a child of the '80s!"

May 30, 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 Sarah Coyne, associate professor of Human Development.

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Intellect

Email Privacy: Finding the Balance Between Secure and Usable

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
May 25, 2016
When it comes to email security, sending an email is more similar to sending a postcard than a letter in a sealed envelope. A team of BYU computer scientists were honored for their research to make encrypting email easier.

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Faith

Use Your Belief and Faith to Find Truth, Says BYU Devotional Speaker

May 24, 2016
BYU Math Education Professor Blake Peterson said gaining a testimony of many principles of the gospel come only after exercising faith and applying those principles in our lives.

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Intellect

Crash Testing Bacteria: BYU Chemists Try to Find Fatal Limit

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
May 22, 2016
Smashing into a solid wall at 670 miles per hour doesn’t even leave a mark.

BYU Chemistry professor Daniel Austin and his graduate students are learning just how hard it can be to kill bacteria.

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