International Year of Astronomy

400 years since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the night sky

6,000 stars can be projected in the Royden G. Derrick Planetarium in the Eyring Science Center

3 galaxies viewable in the planetarium: Andromeda, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud

100 million light-years to the farthest object observed with BYU’s David Derrick telescope

Crunching Numbers

23 out of 404: BYU’s ranking among math teams at the Putnam Competition, the most prestigious math competition in the United States and Canada

54th: BYU freshman Sam Dittmer’s place out of 3,627 Putnam contestants

12 institutions whose students received honorable mention or better, including BYU, Harvard, and MIT

√2/2: answer to the competition problem, “What is the largest possible radius of a circle contained in a four-dimensional hypercube of side length 1?”

Family Matters

52 studies conducted by marriage and family scholars at BYU in the past six years

4 of the 8 most published family therapy scholars in the United States are at BYU

2nd most cited author of family therapy research in the United States: BYU professor Russell D. Crane (MS ’78)