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
Mathletes Michael J. Griffin (’11), Donald C. Sampson (’10), and Sam Dittmer (’14)
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)
