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Family Law Research Highlights Worldwide Inequality Among Women
Statistics is more than just numbers and charts—it can also impact women’s rights for generations to come.
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Graduates Encouraged to ‘Let BYU Run Through’ Them
Supportive family members, friends, and faculty gathered together in the Wilkinson Student Center ballroom on April 22 to celebrate the most recent graduates from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
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Open Lab Day Introduces Chemistry, Inspires Students
“Let’s do this thing!” an elementary-age boy shouted. He thumped his balled fists on the table, crushing the Alka-Seltzer tablets in front of him. Two of his friends huddled around him and chanted, “Crush! Crush! Crush!” and then, “Vinegar! Vinegar Vinegar!” as they added the tablet to a small container.
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Alumna Transitions from Club to Corporation
After graduating in computer science in 2014, Christine Kendall Unsicker stepped off the BYU campus and into the programming world, and began her career in web development at Lucid Software.
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How These Mormon Women Became Some of the Best Cybersecurity Hackers in the U.S.
Sarah Cunha and Laura Wilkinson, two seniors at Brigham Young University, didn’t make it to graduation this year.
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Statistics MVP: Grad Student Rates College Athletes
Many junior high students like to watch sports, but few use statistics to accurately predict the NBA’s most valuable player. Zachary Knowlton, who is graduating this month with a master’s degree in statistics, is the exception.
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Big Data Is Actually a Big Deal
Imagine working on important projects for major companies such as Adobe, FamilySearch, and Qualtrics as an undergraduate student. That’s what students do for their final projects in Dr. Quinn Snell and Dr. Christophe Giraud-Carrier’s Big Data Science and Capstone course in BYU’s computer science department.
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Next Generation SWAT Teams May Include Robots After BYU Grad’s Work
BYU computer science graduate student Daqing Yi has developed an algorithm that could lead to robots working on SWAT teams.
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Studying Creation in Paradise
Not all parts of the Earth are the same age. Geology master’s student Kimberly Sowards had the opportunity to take her geology skills to a younger part of the planet: Hawaii.
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Chemistry Graduate Adding to BYU’s Good Name
When Suresh Kumar’s poster took first prize at the International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC), he added to BYU’s reputation as well as to his own.
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NASA Takes Flight with BYU Student’s Work
Computer Science undergrad Andrew Wallace has some ideas for managing congested national air space, and NASA likes what they’ve seen so far from him.
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Getting Degrees to Fight Disease
Katherine Redd remembers long nights of studying when her friends were having fun, but she wouldn’t trade her college experience for anything else.
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The Sound of Music, According to Physicists
Joshua Bodon is sick of hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” More specifically, he’s sick of hearing one 25-second clip of the song repeated more than 550 times.
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Big Setback Helps Student Land Publication in Prestigious Science Journal
Midway through her pursuit of a Ph.D. in biochemistry, Rebecca Plimpton hit a complete dead end with her research.
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ORCA Grant Secures a Deeper, Mentored Research Experience
CPMS undergraduate students have an opportunity to secure funding for doing the research they’ve dreamt of, thanks to the BYU Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) Grant.
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