Emma J. Ebert
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Research
Scales and Talking Skills
Professors and students at BYU are working to help kids with autism learn social skills . . . through a fish.
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Campus
Dunking Queen
Camdyn Roberts makes history by becoming the BYU dunk team’s first female member.
![A map showing the trail Ty Hopkins biked from Canada to New Mexican–Mexican border. Starting in Banff, Cananda, Hopkins rode down through Montana, along the Idaho border, then through Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.](https://magazine.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WEB_bike_infographic_1404x702_acf_cropped.png)
People
16 Days in the Saddle
Exercise-science professor Ty Hopkins finished the Tour Divide bike race in 16 days, biking 2,725 miles.
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Campus
Reppin’ the USA
The Cougarettes represented the USA in hip-hop at the World Cheerleading Championships.
Seven pregnant dancers at BYU joined together in dance, claiming their identities as both dancers and mothers.
Representing the 12 tribes, various stones from BYU’s collections are featured in a mural at the Rome temple complex.
BYU's annual University Conference honors campus employees for their outstanding service, scholarship, and abilities.
A lifetime working with his favorite author has led Gessel to translate novels and act as literary consultant on a film.
BYU ranks no. 3 in producing foreign-language degrees with no. 1 rankings in Russian, Portuguese and Arabic.