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 | How Corn Came to Be
| Biology assistant professor Clint Whipple has found the mutant gene that may have turned an ordinary grass into the most important crop in ancient America.
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| How often do you test an aging nuclear arsenal? Associate stats chair Shane Reese calculated the reliability, or unreliability, of U.S. nukes.
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 | Renaissance Man
| Pianist, artist, composer, linguist—Gerrit de Jong Jr. had many talents. At Homecoming, Oct. 4–9, BYU will honor the first dean of the College of Fine Arts.
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 | Expand Your World
| Engage in politics, humanities, and more with Kennedy Center lectures resuming Tuesday, Sept. 6. See the calendar.
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| Don't miss hearing professionals like federal judge Thomas B. Griffith in the Political Affairs Lecture Series, held Thursdays at 4 p.m. |
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 | Turning Ed Heads
| | McKay professor David Wiley pioneered an open-ed conference that now has the U.S. Department of Education's attention. | | |  |
TAs in the U.K.
| | How do teacher's aides in the United States compare with those in the United Kingdom? McKay scholar Betty Ashbaker shares. | | |  | IQ Can't Explain Everything
| | Communication disorders professors Bonnie Brinton and Martin Fujiki examine IQ as it relates to language impairment. | | |  | From Poverty to PhD 
| | Raised on food stamps, a BYU professor aims to show that background does not determine a child's outcome. | | |
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 | Modeling Ambiguity
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Econ assistant professor Scott Condie is taking financial-market modeling beyond the efficient-market hypothesis.
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Finding Fort Harmony
| A team of BYU archaeologists uncovered an 1854 fort built by LDS pioneers. Read more in the Deseret News.
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 | Broadcasters Go Big
| | Six broadcast journalism students won honors at this year's Gracie Awards. Watch their winning reports. | | |
 | Authentic Anne
| | BYU's production of the Diary of
Anne Frank brought the historic story to life by focusing on realism and authenticity. | | |
 | Opera-tunities
| | BYU's opera program is giving students the joy of classical repertoire and plenty of opportunities to perform. | |
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 | Pregnant and Homeless
| A BYU study finds that pregnant women who were homeless at some point
prior to delivery had lower-weight babies.
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| Laura Bridgewater is the new chair of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology.
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 | Do You Have a Kitt-un?
| Linguistics professor David
Eddington pins down Utahns' pronunciation of words like mountain and kitten.
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 | A Chair with
Flair
| A student logged his own dead-standing spruce to make this chair, which took first place in national competition.
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| A team of civil-engineering students flexed their traffic-engineering muscles at an international collegiate bowl.
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 | Welcome Back
| After his post-doctoral work at MIT, alum Eric Homer has joined BYU's
mechanical engineering faculty.
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Four Make BYU Honor Roll
| Four Fulton College faculty members were honored at the 2011 Annual University Conference, which recognizes BYU's best.
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 | Nursing Fellow
| Professor Sabrina Jarvis was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners.
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Hymn
Therapy
| The favorite experiences of students serving in Ecuador this summer did not have to do with medical work.
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 | Hunting a Mutant Gene
| BYU statistics students contributed to a groundbreaking study that zeros
in on a rare genetic mutation.
| | |  | Blue Light Not-So-Special
| Before you zap wrinkles with blue light, chemistry professor Heidi Vollmer-Snarr
has findings you should consider.
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 | Legal Ease
| | New faculty member Catherine Bramble will teach a course that was one of the hardest classes she took at
BYU. | | |
 | Crime and Punishment
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| New faculty member Eric Jensen will teach criminal law and continue research on cyber warfare. |
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 | On Track
| | Sarah Brinton is the first fellow in a new program that prepares promising law grads for tenure-track teaching positions. |
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Visiting Professors
| Get to know this year's visiting faculty, Stephen Black from the University of New Hampshire and Michalyn Steele from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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 | Cadets Break Barrier
| Aboard the USNS Comfort, BYU ROTC cadets provided translation for doctors and Ecuadorian
patients.
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Trimming Utah's Fat
| Appointed to a new state council, Marriott
School scholar David Hart is charged with optimizing 40 state agencies.
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