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made it to math's Big Dance, placing in the top 25 for the fourth consecutive year. Now BYU's star mathletes are tasting fame. See their rap video.
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| Nachelle Mackie won the national 800-meter title. BYU is the team to beat in the event, winning three times in the last four years. See Mackie's record time.
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Don't Shoot!
| Want to survive a
bear attack? BYU biologist Tim Smith says a gun should not be the weapon of choice. Here, the bear expert shares what works.
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 | Faith and Doubt
| Author and UCSD professor Naomi Oreskes spoke about climate change and a faith-based perspective.
| | |  | Ghirlandaio to Gaga
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See two BYU professors discuss the empire of fashion in Europe and historical moments when fashion mattered most.
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| A CIA Perspective
| CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic takes a look at Ronald Reagan at the end of the Cold War in this lecture.
| | |  | Under the Mongols
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Boston College professor Sheila Blair discusses how art historians have portrayed the Mongols in Iran.
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 | Religion in Therapy
| See what a
research team including professor Tim Smith found about the role of religion in therapy.
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 | At Their Best
| Alumna Tanise
Chung-Hoon, who raises money for BYU, loves her job: she gets to see people at their best.
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Sweaty Graphs
| Utah State's Victor Lee shared how he uses microchips to help K–12 students track their exercise and interpret the data.
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Cheater, Cheater
| Graduate student TJ Bliss won $6,000 to put toward statistical methods he's developing to detect cheating on exams. See how he catches cheats.
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 | Conversions a Finalist
| History professor Craig Harline's book was a finalist for an award sponsored by Harvard and Columbia.
| | | | Political Affairs Reading
| Check out the most recent BYU Political Affairs Society newsletter, with contributions from the Hawaii, New York, and Washington, D.C., chapters.
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Inside the School of Social Work
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Read the new School of Social Work newsletter to get to know new faculty members, bid farewell to retiring professors, and catch up on school news.
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Good Form!
| See the BYU Ballroom
Dance Company, one of the best formation ballroom dance teams in the world.
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| Final Cut–Again!
| Napoleon Dynamite got its start at
the Final Cut Film Festival. See what this year's student film festival will turn up.
| | |  | Hopeful Words on Media
| In her recent devotional, theatre and media arts chair Amy Jensen encouraged using technology to increase agency.
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| Synthesis and Friends
| BYU's big band jazz ensemble welcomes special guests Alex Boye, Little Big Band, and Chris Bacon.
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| See what happened at BYU's first German Week, an event put on with support from the German Embassy.
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How Gouda Goes Bad
| In a published study, biology
professor Keith Crandall explains where cheese contamination starts.
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 | Evidence-Based Practice
| Bernadette Melnyk, dean of nursing at Ohio State
University, shared tips on how to implement an evidence-based practice.
| | |  | Data Wanted
| Data collection can be challenging. See the advice faculty members picked up on
how to evaluate data-collection tools.
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 | From Wal-Mart to the Y
| Janelle Macintosh was a cashier before she took the steps that led to her current post as BYU's newest nursing professor.
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| Dr. Socorro Gross-Galiano of the Pan American Health Organization discussed health equity at a BYU conference.
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 | History of Numbers
| Ed Burger–who's been called America's Best Math Teacher–visited BYU
and put math in the perspective of history.
| | |  | Aero—and Social—Dynamics
| A recent paper airplane competition got busy physics students out of the library and socializing.
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 | Popular Race Cars
| Popular Science featured BYU's electric streamliner, which set the land
speed record for lightweight race cars.
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 | In High Places
| Fifteen BYU students landed impressive judicial clerkships this year. Read more
about two of them.
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Samaritan Laws
| California Supreme Court associate justice Goodwin Liu spoke on "Martin Luther King and the Good Samaritan."
| | |  | Religious Freedom Upheld
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Watch international law expert and professor Cole Durham lecture on important religious freedom cases.
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 | HR and Accounting No. 1
| The Financial Times ranked the BYU MBA program's human resources and accounting
teaching no. 1 worldwide.
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A Check for a
Video Gamer
| Stripling warriors and other video game characters helped Brad Moss win Student Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Take That, Ivy League
| A BYU MBA student team beat out Ivy
League students for second place at the Wharton Buyout Case Competition.
| | |  | Invest to End Poverty
| The first student-run impact investing firm in the world works with big-time CEOs and helps
people invest to curb poverty.
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