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People

Byron’s Excellent Adventure

Mentor extraordinaire, "worm herder," Antarctic explorer, surfer dude—BYU biologist Byron Adams is one chill scientist.

Spring 2024

Research

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

BYU experts offer research-based and gospel-backed ways to create peace and disagree with each other better.

Spring 2024
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Alumni

Incubating Ideas

It’s easier to get into Harvard than it is to earn a spot with Y Combinator, yet six BYU teams recently made the cut.

Spring 2024
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Faculty

Documenting Hidden Dangers

Hotchkiss and his team of BYU students create the first nationwide database cataloguing low-head dams in US rivers.

Spring 2024
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Loneliness: The Shadow Pandemic
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Spring 2022
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A group of volunteers, including students and a Black man in a wheel chair, pose for a photo in a food bank warehouse.
Getting Things Right
A BYU student documentary helps heal wounds from the past.
An illustration of two babies—one in a crib, the other in a high chair; both surrounded by letters spelling out baby names with features associated with Utah.

Campus

What’s in a Baby Neighm?

Just how unique are baby names in Utah?

Fall 2023

Article

Inspired in the Lab

Chad Pollard and Kelaney Stalker apply epigenetics to projects they are passionate about while working in a BYU lab.

Winter 2024
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Research

Disinfomania

In the battle over facts and fakes, insights and hot takes, how can you become a savvier consumer of information?

Winter 2022
Sciences
One of the 12 hexagonal displays in the installation containing 6 tubes to represent the beryllium refining process. The tubes contain bertrandite ore, AIS, extraction feed, solvent extraction, BE hydroxide, and purified beryllium.
From Utah to Infinity 
BYU's Eyring Science Center has a new permanent display that tells the story of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Three men in an engineering lab examine a medical boot by placing nodes on it.

Campus

Best Foot Forward

Two BYU students teamed up to design and test an upgraded medical boot.

Spring 2023

Alumni

Itty-Bitty Ballistics 

The world's smallest working nerf gun is the size of a fleck of pepper.

Winter 2024

Research

Not So Fast, Not So Furious 

BYU took first at the Shell Eco-Marathon with a vehicle that could drive from Provo to Atlanta on one gallon.

Fall 2023
Arts
Movie Mozart
Ever seen Gone with the Wind or King Kong? BYU experts are transcribing composer Max Steiner's scores for public use.
A watercolor illustration of a red English country home.

Research

Austen Found

Three BYU grads turned their literary excavation of England into a love letter to Jane Austen.

Spring 2021

Students

On the Moove

BYU students come up with innovative ways to package and market milk.

Fall 2023
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Faculty

Faith, Hope, Charity, and Politics 

In a time of political divisiveness and despair, how can Latter-day Saints avoid the trap of cynicism?

Fall 2022