Student Story
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Student Highlights
Students in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences are achieving great things every day. Here are some CPMS students who are working hard in their respective departments.
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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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One PhD Candidate’s Path to BYU
PhD candidate Ashari Kannangara came to BYU from Sri Lanka to study how to make chemotherapy more effective. “I have seen a lot of people go through the pain of cancer,” she said. One of those was her uncle, who battled bladder cancer for several years. She witnessed not only her uncle’s suffering, but also how “their family went through this miserable pain.”
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Do the Math!
In Spring of 2018, students took their study of math equations from the orderly classrooms of BYU campus to a much larger classroom: South America.
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BYU team wins $250,000 grant in Amazon Alexa Challenge
Learn about Eve (short for Emotive Adversarial Ensembles), a socialbot run on the Alexa platform and created by a team of ten BYU computer science students
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The extraordinary geological adventures of Hannah Bonner
Bonner’s experiences illustrate why BYU ranks fifth in the country for graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. Read about her journey on BYU News.
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BYU Students Tackle Big Data
Computer science and statistics students sat huddled together, heads close together, animatedly debating which company they wanted to work for.
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Student Developed App is an Instagram Game Changer
Millennials might need to put down their avocado toast for this news: BYU computer science student Candice Lusk has developed the perfect solution for 20-somethings posing for Instagram photos as they courageously backpack through Tibet and Thailand.
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Picking Up Where Elder James E. Talmage Left Off
Geology graduate student Collin Jensen isn’t the first Mormon geologist to wonder how the granite of Little Cottonwood Stock formed.
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BYU Math Students go Abroad to Learn about Jobs
Members of the Applied Math in Europe study abroad recently returned from an international experience involving eight countries and 11 company visits over the course of three weeks.
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CPMS Student Wins 3MT People’s Choice Award
Biochemistry graduate student Diana Saavedra won the People’s Choice Award for the 3MT university-wide competition on March 9, 2017, in the BYU Varsity Theatre.
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Unpredictability and Loss Help BYU Grad Find Greater Joy in Success
On August 30, 2010 Stephen Merrill walked onto BYU’s campus as a newly minted freshman. On April 28, 2017, Merrill, like most students, will leave BYU a little differently. But unlike most students, Merrill’s transformation includes overcoming major physical challenges.
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Student-created Budgeting App Will Finally Save Your Budget
You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, it seems like every month you blow your budget.
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CPMS Alum Cui Tao Wins Presidential Award
Cui Tao’s love for both biology and computer science has led to more than an accomplished research and teaching career—it has earned her one of Barack Obama’s final awards before the former president left office in January.
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Undergraduate Presents Jet Research at Acoustical Conference
Most who go to Hawaii find themselves at the beach, not presenting work on spectrum similarities of jet noise to a room full of acoustical researchers.
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BYU Geology Students Win International Geophysics Competition
Geology graduate students Scott Meek and Trevor Tuttle beat out 16 teams from 16 different countries to place first in the Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG) International Student Challenge Bowl in Dallas, Texas, on October 17.
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Geology Graduate Students Win Regional Geophysics Competition
BYU geology students Scott Meek and Trevor Tuttle demonstrated their geology prowess with their first place victory at the 2016 Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Rocky Mountain Challenge Bowl in Denver, Colorado.
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Blake Peterson Encourages Students to “Hold Fast” To Testimony
Chair of the Department of Mathematics Education Blake Peterson encouraged students to “hold fast to the things that you know are true,” in his May 24 devotional address.
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