Ana Hirschi

Imagine yourself sitting in your high school math class. As your teacher is speaking, another student raises his hand to ask a question, and he and your teacher start having their own back-and-forth dialogue about an equation that has been written on the board. Lost in the commotion of what is now going on between the other student and the teacher, you start drifting off. As you drift off, you miss important information that may have answered some of your own questions.

Do you have a fascination with asteroids? Ever wonder what happened to the dinosaurs? Dr. Tyler Lyson, an Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, is giving this year’s BYU Quey Hebrew Lecture entitled “After the Asteroid: Colorado Rocks tell Earth’s Comeback Story.”

Thank you to all who participated in the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on February 21, 2020! Participating in the competition is an opportunity for graduate students to share their research in a way that enables other students to more easily understand the fascinating projects they are working on. Congratulations to this year’s winners who received cash awards for their hard work:

Brigham Young University’s emeritus chemistry professor, Milton Lee, was awarded the American Chemical Society National Award in Analytical Chemistry on April 2, 2019. Recently retired, Lee has published nearly 600 articles and given over 500 presentations throughout his career, which cumulatively represent enormous advancements in the field.

The Geological Sciences Department is pleased to host the 34th annual Quey Hebrew Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in WSC 3228. Distinguished volcanologist Don Swanson will speak. Swanson will discuss “Two Eruptions of a Lifetime: Comparing the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea.”