Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Stories

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“Getting Away With” a Student Academy Award

More than 30 BYU students created Student Accomplice, a fun and action-packed animated short.

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Eyes Are More than a Window to the Soul

Findings from BYU researchers about using tears to diagnose diseases were recently published in Clinical Proteomics.

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Field of Data Dreams

“During my freshman year, one of my professors mentioned that working in baseball and statistics would be an option for me. Until that point, I didn’t even know that type of career path existed.”

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BYU Speeches in Tongues

When Kika Londoño was eight years old, her family moved from Utah to Colombia for a year and a half. During this formative time, she came to love Latin America and the Spanish language.

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Reddit Reveals a Societal Shift

Researchers at BYU’s Computational Health Science Research Collaborative are crunching data to see how Reddit users search for and sift through medical information and how this has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Animation Students Awarded Another Student Emmy

Twice in a row: BYU won in both animation and advertising at the Student Emmys.

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BYU Animation Wins Student Emmy Award

Can a baby kraken become a pirate? Ethan Briscoe and Tyler Bitner led a group of over 20 students in creating an animation telling this entertaining story.

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Video Game Wins International Award

Emily Ellis and Gabe Reed directed and produced Liminus: The Silent Guard with nearly 50 other students to receive an International Award for video game design.

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NASA’s Artemis I Launched, and BYU Heard It

How loud was the world’s most powerful rocket as it blasted off from NASA? A team of BYU Accoustics students and professors waited weeks to record and study its impact.

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Clearing the Air

Abby Mangum’s passion for helping people and communities respond to disasters led her to research earthquakes and tsunamis as a BYU undergrad.

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Mitigating Hazards at Home and Abroad

Abby Mangum’s passion for hazard mitigation got her involved in researching earthquakes and tsunamis during her BYU undergraduate years.

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Prestigious Film Festival Screens Animated BYU Film

Video: Salt , which was directed and produced by BYU students, was screened at the 2021 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.

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Leadership and Preparation

When Daniel Ekpo became president of the BYU chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, he learned that being a leader meant being a mentor and a friend.

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Using Math to Connect Students to Resources

With more than 30,000 students at BYU, it’s not surprising that some of them don’t know where to turn when difficulties arise. That’s where Early Alert comes in.

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Adding to Mathematics

Mathematics student Jonathan Hales says it was mentored learning that helped him develop a method that researchers can use to analyze equations.