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This Fourth of July means more to history professor Mark Choate after eight months in Afghanistan. Read the Bronze Star recipient's thoughts on freedom.
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With sustainable-sushi and urban-farming stories, BYU became the first school to sweep the broadcast awards at the Hearst journalism championships.
| |  | Quick Thinker
| Neuroscience/exercise science major Miles Batty, the NCAA Indoor Athlete of the Year, is also the Academic All-America of the Year. He maintains a 3.95 GPA.
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Don't Be a Relationship Parasite
| Some people form weak, parasitical relationships. In a BYU Alumni webinar, networking expert Jeff Rust offered tips for building symbiotic cities of influence.
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A BYU tool provides important info, tips, and guidelines that can help you plan a safe and enjoyable trip abroad.
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Professor Study Group
| The Teacher Education Research Seminar group has met bimonthly for 10 years to help faculty get published.
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 | Brazilian Exchange
| Through a new BYU exchange program, McKay students can
experience diversity in a foreign school system.
| | |  | Coaching the Frustrated/ing
| Associate education leadership professor Ellen Williams
presented on how to coach frustrated or frustrating teachers.
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 | The Adventsingen Goes On
| Despite the loss of the Provo Tabernacle, where BYU's annual Adventsingen was held, the
holiday tradition will continue.
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Strangers
| | Linguistics professor Lynn Henrichsen explores how the Church has coped with linguistic challenges. |
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 | Improving Peru
| See the sustainable technologies BYU engineering students
developed for and introduced to Peru's Islands of the Uros.
| | |  | Hot Science
| Watch BYUTV's Insight to learn how chemical engineering professor Tom Fletcher's research combats wildfires.
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In Search of the Best
| | A new Web tool compares computer and electrical engineering programs in the United States. | | |  | Motorcycle Range
| A team of BYU students turned an electric motorcycle into a hybrid and increased its range by nearly 40 percent.
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Red-Blue States
| New BYU research shows that people from red
and blue states may agree more than they disagree on political issues.
| | |  | Why Dads Still Matter
| Certain types of dads remain a force for good for children who have moved out,
says new family life research.
| | |  | Teens and Religion
| | A student-professor team's study of religion and teens underlines the importance of relationships. | | |  | Odds Favor the Married
| | The benefits of marriage, according to a new BYU study, include increased odds of surviving colon cancer. | | | |
 | A Return to Beijing
| See how the first joint public performance of BYU and the Beijing Dance Academy brought a BYU professor full circle.
| | |  | Subway Symphony
| | Finding music in city noises, associate professor of music composition Steve Ricks won a prestigious commission. | | |
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Into the Burn
| In his June devotional, plant and wildlife
sciences chair Val Anderson shared how he fought fires. Listen to it here.
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Gene Therapy
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| Assistant biology professor Steven Johnson collaborated with a Stanford Nobel laureate to improve gene therapy. | |
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Nursing Families
| Professor Barbara Mandleco
coauthored a pediatric nursing book full of nutrition specifics and cultural considerations.
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Come What May
| Departing with words from Elder Richard
G. Scott, nursing grads left BYU prepared to take on life and love it.
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| See what alumna Penny Jensen, president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, told graduate students.
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| Members of the Fritz B. Burns Foundation joined BYU in a celebration of Burns scholars across campus.
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Screaming Swedish Fish
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Watch the Swedish Fish experiment BYU chem majors put on for local students in the second annual Open Lab Day.
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Getting in the Game
| Wish you could watch Jimmer from any angle? A professor's new software gives sports-television viewers the wheel.
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| William Christensen, associate
professor of statistics, is using statistical tools to study climate change.
| | |  | Mars on Earth
| What should a Mars rover be able to do? See how the BYU rover fared in competition in Utah's red, Mars-like desert.
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| In a story on justices' use of the dictionary in the courtroom, the
New York Times cited an article written by a BYU law student.
| | |  | Shrinking Prisons
| | Read the op-ed BYU law professor Shima Baradaran
penned for the New York Times about reducing prison populations. | | |  | New Appointment
| | Associate Dean Gordon Smith will join an Association of American Law Schools committee on Transaction Law and Skills. | | |
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 | How to Beat Free
| | What do businesses do when competitors offer similar products for free? BYU faculty
share advice. | | |
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| Professor of finance Hal Heaton has been appointed the new faculty director of the H. Taylor Peery Institute.
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| | Utah high schoolers put their Spanish and marketing skills to the test in
BYU's Business Language Competition. | | |
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Assignment Becomes $10K
| | A class project turned into a winning business for student Saul Howard in the Crexendo Website Competition. |
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