Jessica Grimaud
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The Football Team Full of Ph.Ds
A decade ago, a grad student at the University of Texas told her roommate that she dreamed of teaching at BYU and starting an all-women’s faculty flag football team.
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Geological History: It’s Written in Stone—Mudstone
Some people stop playing in the mud by age ten—not Alex Washburn. In August 2016, the geology graduate student found himself across the world steeped in mud, collecting samples.
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Modern Tech Meets Ancient Text
Computer programs interpret languages like HTML, XML, Java, PHP with no problem. But ancient handwritten text? BYU professor Bill Barrett and his team of undergraduate and graduate students are determined to create a program that will do just that—and to a large degree, they already have.
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WWII Vet, One of the First Computer Science Faculty, Shares Story
Norman Wright has boxes—a lot of boxes. They hold countless records of history about BYU, computer science, and WWII.
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BYU Alum Uncovers “Nessie’s” Bones in Utah
BYU alum Dave Alderks likes to say that everything he needed to know to be a paleontologist he learned in kindergarten.
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Cancer research students are finding more discoveries due to the Rex Lee Run
BYU graduate Michelle Townsend will never forget watching her healthy, tennis-playing grandmother slowly weaken and pass away from cancer. The subsequent diagnosis of her mother and her grandfather motivated Townsend to enter the cancer research field and discover a cure that will ease, and someday lift, the fight that all patients must go through.
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NASA flight surgeon researches effects of space travel on human body
Blake Chamberlain has one of the most unique jobs in the solar system.
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BYU chemistry professor trains police on critical thinking
Provo Police Chief John King never planned on partnering with a chemistry professor to teach critical thinking courses. That is, until BYU’s Brian Woodfield approached King and asked if Woodfield could train Provo City Police.
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Evolving Stars, Evolving Methods
Almost everyone is fascinated by black holes. Dr. David Neilsen studies black holes, and he is also interested in processes that create black holes — like colliding neutron stars.
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