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| Striking Water in Tanzania |
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. |
| | Get Your Football Fix | The first BYU Football Media Day attracted ESPN, USA Today, and CBS Sports coverage. Watch interviews with BYU legends, players, and coaches. | |
| | | Finding Fame in a Pickle
| 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. | | | |
| 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. | | | | |
Visions of Literacy |
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. | | | | Welcoming a
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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| Film Fest | 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 |
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 |
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. | |
| | Immunization Facts |
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. | | | |
| A BYU-Pixar Pipeline | Pixar keeps coming back to BYU to hire animation students. Read more in the Deseret News. | |
| | Innovation and Faith |
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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