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A human-powered drill built by BYU engineers can tap water 150 to 250 feet deep in a matter of days--and at a fraction of the cost of water-drilling alternatives.
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| The first BYU Football Media Day attracted ESPN, USA Today, and CBS Sports coverage. Watch interviews with BYU legends, players, and coaches.
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| | Brian Crane's Pickles cartoon entertains readers in 800 news markets. See his favorite strips and hear him talk about his much-loved senior citizens. |
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 | Digital Bridges
| Check out the online version of the spring 2011 issue
of Bridges, the Kennedy Center's alumni magazine.
| | |  | Movie Night!
| Prepare for the Foreign Service Exam by watching Charlie Wilson's War
Aug. 12 with the Foreign Service Student Organization.
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 | Resilience in Haiti
| Assistant counseling professor Michelle Marchant recounts stories from her visit to Haiti after the 2010 quake.
| | |  | Free for All
| A BYU professor who is pioneering open-education platforms won a fellowship from the Open
Learning Network.
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Visions of Literacy
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McKay faculty Roni Jo Draper is helping teachers improve literacy in a variety of disciplines, from math to music.
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| Campus Life 1,000 Years Ago | BYU's Museum of Peoples and Cultures won a national award for an exhibit
featuring the archaeology of Utah Valley.
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New Dean
| Benjamin Ogles, former dean at Ohio University, is now dean of BYU's College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences.
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| See what film won Best of Fest at this year's Final Cut, BYU's annual student-produced film festival.
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Leader
of the Band
| | Don Peterson, director of bands in the School of Music, was inducted into the American Bandmaster's Association. |
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Cow Tetris?
| | Playing off a popular Japanese game show, students made a Wendy's commercial that is winning top awards. | | |  | Education Week Shows
| | Enjoy live performances during Education Week, including Aida and a Disney-themed show by Jenny Oaks Baker. | | |
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Writing and Rhetoric Now a Minor
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Beginning this fall English students will be able to declare a minor in writing and rhetoric. Previously it was a concentration rather than a minor.
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The Brazilian Exchange
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| As part of the U.S.-Brazil Diversity Project, BYU education majors can trade places with university students in Brazil for a semester. |
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 | A Taste of Africa
| Visit the Bean Museum's newest exhibit, Into Africa, and identify animals with a new iPhone app available for download.
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 | Bumping Bellies
| Students helped open a maternity clinic in Ghana, where women said thanks
with a bump of their pregnant bellies.
| | |  | In Honor of Myrtie
| Ira and Mary Lou Fulton are sponsoring a new annual faculty mentoring award named after
Ira's mother, Myrtie.
| | |  | Concern for Minorities
| Graduate fellowship award recipient Laura Shellman hopes to work with minority and underserved populations.
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A BYU professor mentored students in immunization research. Watch their video on reasons to immunize.
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Should Parents Facebook?
| See what Charles Knutson, associate professor of computer science, told BYUtv about parenting in cyberspace.
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 | Treating Colon Cancer
| Using his past AIDS research, associate chemistry professor Matt Peterson may have
found a treatment for colon cancer.
| | |  | Summer Statistics
| Students, professors, and professionals celebrated mixed models at BYU's Summer Institute of Applied Statistics.
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 | A BYU-Pixar Pipeline
| Pixar keeps coming back to BYU to hire animation students. Read more in the Deseret News.
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Watch mechanical engineering professor Larry Howell's devotional address about faith and personal innovation.
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 | Briefing the
Supreme Court
| BYU prepared an amicus brief for the biggest religious-freedom case to go before the U.S. Supreme Court in decades.
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 | Prized Writing
| Tackling irreparable harm in trademark law, grad Jeffrey Sanchez's article took third in an
international competition.
| | |  | A Desire to Help
| BYU law student John Kwarm was appointed to the Rocky Mountain Black Law Students Association board.
| | |  | Facing the Professor
| The Law School now uses video conferencing to keep students and faculty connected during externships.
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 | Women at Work
| Women may be a minority in the business world, but they are a growing presence in the
BYU Management Society.
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First Ballard Fellows
| See who made the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's first list of research and teaching fellows.
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