Lia Ludlam
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Brooks Britt: Perseverance, Patience and Perspective
When a professional geologist gifted nine-year-old Brooks B. Britt his rock collection, Britt thought, “This is it. I’m going to be a geologist.”
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Radical SAMs, Microscopic Lassos, Protein Dynamite—on the Wild Frontier of Enzyme Engineering
If you’ve been on a prescription medication, you might have wondered why prescription drugs are so expensive.
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A “Killer” Discovery to Change the Future of Vaccinations
Imagine hiking through the woods and stumbling upon a brand-new car—a car that’s just idling, waiting for someone to grip the wheel and tear out of the forest. Chemistry professor Dr. Paul Savage likens this example of a fortuitous find to the discovery of a game-changing cell he and his colleagues began studying in the human body fifteen years ago.
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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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A Forgotten Relic Holds Clues to the Future
In 1975, the fossilized remains of a 35-ft mosasaur, the Prognathadon stadtmani, were discovered by fifteen-year-old Gary L. Thompson* near Delta, Colorado. These remains were excavated by a team of paleontologists from BYU soon after and have been kept in the stores of BYU’s Museum of Paleontology for decades.
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Speed Diagnosis for Sepsis
The current methods for detecting bacterial infection in the blood and whether those bacteria are resistant to common antibiotics can sometimes take an entire day—which is more time than a patient with sepsis can afford.
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Who’s ‘good’ at math? Dan Siebert redefines success in mathematics
“Ask kids in school, Who’s good at mathematics? and they’ll say So-and-so. If you ask them why, they’ll say, Because they always finish first,” explains Dan Siebert.
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