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No. 7 to No. 3 
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The victory at SDSU gave the Cougars a no. 3 ranking and hope for a no. 1 tourney seed. See a roundup of headlines. A BYUTV True Blue special airs March 8.
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Game On, Girls
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According to a recent BYU study that has made national headlines, video games can be good for girls--if parents play along. See ABC's video report here.
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Still Knitting
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Cosic, Ainge, Fredette--Muriel Thole watched them all courtside with her knitting. Benched this year with back pain, now she watches from home, knitting all the time.
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Y Abroad
Film Contest
| Students with international experience can win cash by creating short films to fit the theme "Expand Your Horizon." Watch the video here for more info.
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| Each summer the McKay School takes BYU students to Washington, D.C.,
to run a program for low-income children.
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| | Professor Michael Tunnell has received awards and praise for Candy Bomber, a nonfiction book for children. | | |  | Driven to Combat Poverty
| | As a United Nations Consultant and a professor, Macleans Geo-JaJa is dedicated to mitigating poverty. | | | | Religion Improves Mental Health
| | McKay School faculty published research showing that the religiously devout consistently fall in a healthy range for mental health. | |
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Families Who Flourish
| Family life professor
Randal Day will share five secrets of families who flourish in the March 10 Hickman Lecture.
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| | Watch Ross Thompson's Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture about building emotional health and compassion in children. | | |
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| Accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra, BYU dancers will perform classics from Martha Graham's repertoire.
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Bringing Scripts to Life
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Enter "the abyss," what TMA students call their theatre-directing practicum, where they take a production from start to finish.
| | |  | | Students Save the Stage | The stage-design responsibility of many BYU productions rests on the shoulders of students and a few faculty mentors.
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Don't miss this special anniversary display of Polynesian, Latin American, and Native American music and dance.
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| Read about classics associate professor Roger Macfarlane's award in the latest
issue of Humanities at BYU.
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 | | New Associate Academic VP | | Alan Harker, former associate dean of the College of Life Sciences, is BYU's new associate academic vice president. | | |  | Green Thumbs-Up for BYU
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program received reaccreditation from the Professional Landcare Network. | | | |
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| | The National League for Nursing selected assistant professor Barbara Heise for a new
leadership-development program. | | | |
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Presidential
Citation
| | Associate teaching professor Kent Blad received the Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine. |
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A Course Unlike Any Other
| A student and professor presented a veteran-focused nursing course unique to BYU to the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
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Fault Finding
| Using sound waves, geology professor John McBride and a team of students have discovered unmapped faults in Provo.
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Tackling sales-tax data, stats professor Scott Grimshaw found how far taxpayers will travel to save a buck.
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trained locals in El Salvador in making inexpensive prosthetics. | | |
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Industrial Design
Symposium
| | BYU's Second Annual Industrial Design Symposium featured a vice
president of Tupperware, a designer from Kate Spade, and more. | | | | | |
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BYU Second in the Nation?
| In the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell questions the U.S. News rankings and names BYU no. 2 in
the nation.
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| Elder D. Todd Christofferson emphasized the importance of earthly laws at the J. Reuben Clark Law Society Fireside.
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| Susan Herman, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, addressed common
misconceptions the organization faces.
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Health-Care Debate
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| Is the new health-care bill constitutional? Students watched on as two visiting professors squared off on this hot topic. |
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| In BYU's first social entrepreneurship case competition, students brainstormed for
the nonprofit Fundación Paraguaya.
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First Female Dean
| Alumna Alison Davis-Blake will become the first female dean of the University of Michigan's business school.
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| Entrepreneurship takes a new approach in BYU's first international Business Model
Competition.
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| International students met with Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve and toured Church headquarters.
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