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An oat plant in the BYU greenhouse grown by scientists who mapped the oat genome

Campus

The G’OAT 

BYU scientists helped sequence the entire oat genome.

A woman in a purple turtleneck clutches a megaphone to her chest, glancing timidly at a cluster of floating, disembodied heads that surround her and fix her with judgmental gazes.

Research

Innovation Zone

Innovation means validating others as well as brutal honesty, say BYU business professors.

Two BYU Speeches translations students, a man and a woman, pose by a podium in the Marriott Center.

Campus

Every Nation, Kindred, and Tongue

BYU Speeches goes trilingual with Japanese and Spanish translations.

A glowing gold figure stands on a stone column overlooking a dark forest, gazing towards a tall, double-spired transparent structure on the horizon.

Campus

Silent Guard

BYU's animation capstone students win big awards for their latest project—a video game about herding sheep.

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Sorry Not Sorry, Coach
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Cat Cousins
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A faculty-undergraduate duo become the first to sequence the clouded leopard genome.