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How to Prepare for the STEM Fair
The BYU STEM Fair is a career fair for fields in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Companies attend to speak one-on-one with BYU students. Held in the WSC Ballroom, the fair will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, February 8, 2018. It is a great opportunity to network and find a potential job or internship.
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3MT Competition Winners 2020
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:
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How to Prepare for the STEM Fair
The STEM Fair is just around the corner, and that means it’s time to start preparing. You may have seen flyers around campus, colorful announcements on the big screens in hallways, and emails about its prep activities. You may already know that it will take place on Wednesday, September 25th, from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. and on Thursday, September 26th, from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. in the Wilkinson Student Center ballroom. But why should you go to the STEM Fair? What should you expect? How should you prepare?
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Why Go to the STEM Fair?
The STEM Fair. You’ve seen flyers around campus, colorful announcements on the big screens in hallways, and emails about its prep activities. You probably even know it takes place on Thursday, February 7, in the Wilkinson Student Center from 9 AM – 3 PM. But why should you go to the STEM Fair? What should you expect? How should you prepare?
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Girls Code!
During the second week of June, the Joseph Knight Building buzzed with the chatter of forty-one elementary-aged girls. These girls were the first campers to attend BYU’s pilot camp, Girls Code, a four-day coding camp for young girls.
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Go Ahead, Take the Hard Classes
Dr. Pete Roming may now be the director of Southwest Research Institute’s Space Engineering Department, but he still remembers how BYU helped start his career.
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A Thing of Beauty: Sauropod Vertebrae
In BYU Magazine’s new YouTube video series, “A Thing of Beauty,” BYU professors and personalities sharing something they consider beautiful. Geological science professor, Dr. Brooks Britt share his thing of beauty: the sauropod vertebrae!
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Understanding the Fastest Route Between Four Points is as Simple as Playing with Soap Bubbles
In BYU Magazine’s new YouTube video series, “A Thing of Beauty,” BYU professors and personalities sharing something they consider beautiful. Mathematics professor and Department Chair Michael Dorff appreciates the “lovely harmony between soap bubbles and mathematics.” Click here to watch Michael Dorff share the beauty of soap bubbles.
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Jani Radebaugh gathers information from Pluto
Jani Radebaugh, a planetary scientist in the Department of Geological Sciences, shares her most recent discovery of the mysterious Pluto and its Earth-like qualities with BYU. She says, “there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system, too.” Read more.
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Playing with Swarms
Hearing Dr. Michael Goodrich talk about his research in human-robot interaction, you might not realize that he works at all.
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YubiKey Usability Study Represents Undergraduate Research Success
Joshua Reynolds will present research he completed as a BYU undergraduate on YubiKey usability at the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on May 23, 2018. This is the top academic computer security conference where only 11 percent of all papers submitted were accepted this year. Kent Seamons, Reynolds’s faculty mentor, pointed out that it is rare for an undergraduate to be first author on a paper at this conference.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical teams up with BYU researchers to speed up catalyst development
Chemical companies are currently racing to develop new catalysts that efficiently produce key commodity chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics. Dr. Daniel Ess and his graduate students developed a computer model to identify new catalysts. Read more about it at BYU News.
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Understanding Autism – Shannon Tass
When Professor Shannon Tass was a graduate student she focused her statistics research on cancer. Why? Because she wanted to make a difference.
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What Actuarial Science Can Tell You About Hurricane Harvey, Driverless Cars, Health Care, and More
Statistics professor and actuarial program director Brian Hartman doesn’t call them “tragedies”—he calls them “uncertain events.”
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Dorff named head of Math Association of America
Michael Dorff takes the reins today as the Math Association of America’s (MAA) president-elect. Read more on BYU News.
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Summerhays Lecture: What do WordPerfect, the Provo Temple, and Thanksgiving Point have in common? ALAN ASHTON
Dr. Alan Ashton, former professor of computer science at BYU and co-founder and former president and CEO of WordPerfect Corporation, spoke at the Summerhays Lecture on October 12. His talk was titled “Light from on High Illuminates Science and Religion.”
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Come to Lunch! Meet Inspiring Women at Career Conversations
The biannual Women’s Career Conversations (WCC) luncheon provides an opportunity for women students in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to listen to women professionals from academia and industry as they share what they love about their careers and what challenges and opportunities are available in their professions. The event includes lunch and a panel discussion featuring women from varying professional backgrounds. The Fall 2019 event will take place on Friday, November 8th, 2019 at 12:00 PM in the Wilkinson Center Garden Court.
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Lessons Learned (and Taught) while Traveling the World in a Canoe
In the summer of 2014, BYU alum Linda Furuto sailed across the equator in a canoe. The canoe—a traditional Polynesian voyaging vessel named Hōkūle‘a—was manned by 13 crew members and navigated entirely using the wind, stars, and God’s other creations for guidance.
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