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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.

Utah Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the United States. Each summer, the body of water is used by thousands in the Utah Valley as a place of recreation to go boating and fishing.

The Student Research Conference will be held on February 29, 2020. Find all the information about the conference here. If you are ready to submit your abstract, apply to SRC here. The last day to apply is on February 7, 2020.

This semester, there are a lot of great opportunities for you to present research, network with potential employers, and learn from other students and professors. Here are four events you won’t want to miss.

It’s scholarship, grant, and FAFSA application season! Even though the university scholarship deadline has passed, you still have several options for earning scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year. Here are a number of scholarship opportunities specifically for students in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

If you asked PhD chemistry candidate Brittany Knighton what exactly she does in the lab all day, she’d offer a frank response: “I use lasers to make things do stuff.”

On February 29, 2020, CPMS will be hosting the annual BYU Student Research Conference (SRC). The SRC is a half-day affair treating attendees to cutting-edge ideas in math and science, exciting door prizes, and—to top it all off—a pizza feast fit to feed over 600 hungry student researchers and faculty.

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:

In Pixar Animation Studios’ 2017 blockbuster Coco, one of the characters sums up his path to musical stardom: “No one was going to hand me my future. It was up to me to reach for my dream, grab it tight, and make it come true.”

By the time March rolls around, winter in Provo doesn’t exactly feel like the most wonderful time of the year. Aside from the hassle of bundling up and stepping over the ubiquitous soggy slush, the weather this month isn’t all bad. In fact, we all hope to soon see more sunlight, greener landscapes, and finally less illness.

New study reveals that 90 percent of urban dust comes from dry lakebeds

From early story concepts to a theatrical release, full-length animated films can take years to create. One of the biggest time commitments comes during the animation process when the animators are simulating fluid materials, like water or hair.

The College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences wishes to congratulate Charles Lewis and Kolby Nottingham for their distinctions as the winner and runner-up of the 2019 Phi Kappa Phi College Award.

All students of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences are invited to join us Tuesday, November 12 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni Center on BYU campus for an online networking workshop.

BYU Animation’s most ambitious project to date took gold at the Student Academy Award competition in Los Angeles for their film Grendel. Read the full story here. To watch the full film, visit the BYU Center for Animation website.

Jonathan Blake, recipient of the college Alumni Achievement Award, will give a guest lecture on Thursday, October 17. Entitled “A Risk Manager’s Guide to a Faith Journey,” the lecture will take place at 11 a.m. in room 1170 of the Talmage Building. The public is invited to attend the event.

For the sixth time since 2004, the BYU Center for Animation has received the prestigious distinction as a winner of the Student Academy Awards (SAA), an annual competition recognizing the most promising student filmmakers around the world. Out of 1,615 entries from 360 domestic and international institutions, the SAA recognized BYU’s short film Grendel as one of only 16 winners across all categories for 2019.