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Google Doodle
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The art of BYU assistant professor Ryan Woodward danced across Google's homepage May 11 to celebrate acclaimed choreographer Martha Graham.
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Stroll the New Stream
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South campus features a newly renovated half-mile trail and stream that
are a restored version of BYU's late 1800s trail and stream--plus five waterfalls. |
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Indelible Tracings
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Fifty years ago the entire U.S. World Figure Skating Team died in a plane crash. Former competitive skater Patricia Bushman (BA '78) honors them in a new book. |
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| Christians in Iraq | Radboud University's Herman Teule
will speak on June 22 about Christians in contemporary Iraq. | | | | |
| Augmented Reality | Integrating computer data into your 3-D life, augmented reality could
help you fix your car, create 3-D books, and more. |
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What's a Texty? |
Special education faculty Betty Ashbaker helped write a "Texty"-winning book about working with autistic children. | |
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Take a Principal to Dinner |
BYU students chatted with local principals over dinner, getting an insider's view of the education profession. |
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Science-Fair Chronicles | See the science-fair projects that won big money at the 2011 Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair, hosted at BYU. | |
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Online Connections | Check out the online
version of the spring 2011 issue of Connections, the college's alumni magazine. | | | | Prestigious Publications | Two political science students' papers on European policy will be published. One of the
students won a trip to Belgium. | | | | Taking a Seat in Finland | Political
science professor Earl Fry was honored with the Fulbright Bicentennial Chair at the University of Helsinki. | | |
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Reel Success | The International Cinematographers Guild recognized BYU's theatre and media arts program as one of the nation's best. | | | | Care to Dance? | The American College Dance Festival selected BYU's Contemporary Dance Theatre to perform two dances. | | | | |
Simpson's Legacy | After 27 years coaching famous artists and BYU students, the associate director of Young Ambassadors is retiring. | |
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Promising
Junior Faculty | Brian Jensen is the third BYU mechanical engineer in two years to win the National Science Foundation's CAREER award.
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Faster Than Most Ferraris | Going from 0 to 60 mph in three seconds, BYU's hybrid racecar took second in an international race--and it gets 42 mpg. | | | | Flight of the Ladybug | With a Department of Defense SMART scholarship, grad student Ken Langley will study flow fields in ladybug flight. | |
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Defense Fellows | See what two
mechanical engineering grad students--both recipients of U.S. Department of Defense fellowships--are researching. | | |
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| Beyond Y,
Beyond Z | Read former academic vice president John Tanner's essay about taking life's journeys beyond the normal limits. |
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A Big, Fat Greek Book | BYU philosophy chair Daniel Graham's new work on early Greek philosophy was praised by the Times Literary Supplement as a monumental feat. |
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| Both Carry HIV, One Healthy | A BYU team published research on how HIV evolved differently in a set of twins,
as well as two other studies about the virus. | | | |
Life After Life Sciences |
At the college's spring convocation, life science graduates were admonished to prepare to serve and to cherish their spiritual experiences at BYU. |
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Loving the Cadaver Lab |
Passionate about cadavers and teaching, human anatomy assistant lecturer Rachel Tomco passes that love on to hundreds of students. |
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| | Food and Care Kudos | A group of BYU nursing students were voted Volunteers of the Month by Provo's Food and Care Coalition. | | |
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Thank You, Kindly | Holly Skelton, administrative assistant to the dean, has received the President's Appreciation Award. | |
| | Nurses Go National | A national nursing convention held in Salt Lake City allowed more BYU students a taste of issues in the field. | | |
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| Planets Align | BYU Astrofest featured rocket building and telescopes--plus that morning four planets were grouped together in the sky. | |
| | Geological Domination | A team of BYU geology students dominated a regional quiz competition, taking home top honors. | | |
| Air-Tight Math |
In a university forum, associate dean Tom Sederberg explains his invention for fixing leaky tea pots, airplanes, and the like.
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Extraterrestrial Footprints |
Student Terik Daly, recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, is studying impact craters on a micro scale. |
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| Women's Faculty Honor
| The BYU Faculty Women's Association honored professor Kif Augustine-Adams with its teaching award. |
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Church and State in India |
Two BYU representatives traveled to India to participate in a conference about religion and the government. | |
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New Eccles
Scholars | Five MBA students received $10,000 Eccles Scholarships to explore global business careers. |
| | | | Info-Systems Trifecta | Six BYU information
systems students dominated a recent competition in Florida, taking home three first-place finishes. | | |
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Reeling in Awards |
Faced with the challenge of creating innovative solutions to social concerns, several students turned to fish and took first place at a competition. |
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BYU Today is sent monthly to alumni and friends of Brigham Young University by the BYU Alumni Association.
Send comments and questions to byutoday@byu.edu. |
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