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| | | Do the Parabola | They
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. |
| | Queen of the 800 | 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 |
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 |
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. | | |
| At Their Best | Alumna Tanise
Chung-Hoon, who raises money for BYU, loves her job: she gets to see people at their best. | | | |
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 |
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. | | | | 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. | | | | Synthesis and Friends | BYU's big band jazz ensemble welcomes special guests Alex Boye, Little Big Band, and Chris Bacon. | |
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| Doing Deutsch | 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. | | | | |
| 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. | | |
| 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. | |
| | Breaking the Poverty Cycle | 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. | | | | |
| In High Places | Fifteen BYU students landed impressive judicial clerkships this year. Read more
about two of them. | | | | Good
Samaritan Laws | California Supreme Court associate justice Goodwin Liu spoke on "Martin Luther King and the Good Samaritan."
| | | | Religious Freedom Upheld |
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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