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BYU School of Medicine’s Location Announced
The BYU Board of Trustees has approved BYU West Campus as the location for the future BYU School of Medicine building. Dr. Mark J. Ott, inaugural dean of the school, says, “Many deeply committed people are moving this work forward, directed by the vision put forward by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
Distinguished Awards, Rare Honors
BYU students from disciplines across campus are regularly recognized for their world-class accomplishments. While it is impossible to recognize every award-winning student, these few highlights represent the considerable work and creative endeavors of BYU students over the past academic year.
Jahari Williams’s Global Opportunity
“I’ve taken a French class basically every semester, and I’ve loved it,” says BYU student Jahari Williams. “I saw there was a study abroad program in France, and I really wanted to go, but I had no means to do it. I had no money at all to make it possible.” Then Professor Daryl Lee told him about the Global Opportunity Scholarship offered by the BYU Kennedy Center.
Preparing to Teach the US Constitution
In preparation for their fall teaching assignments, American Heritage teaching assistants and social studies teaching majors were hosted by Wheatley Institute on a tour of American history, visiting sites in Philadelphia and Washington, DC. “It helped me appreciate how much work and sacrifice has gone into forming this nation,” one student says.
Again, Glorified Is at Home in the MOA
The BYU Museum of Art recently added Paige Crosland Anderson’s beautiful work Again, Glorified (Atonement Triptych) into its permanent collection. The piece is currently on display in the museum’s Earthbound and Heavenward exhibition. Again, Glorified adopts the setting of centuries-old altarpieces often found in European cathedrals but adds Anderson’s abstract styling.
Blooming Origami Discovered at BYU
BYU’s College of Engineering is known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, undergraduate student Kelvin (Zhongyuan) Wang made a significant discovery: a new family of origami patterns with promising applications across a range of fields. The BYU team coined the term bloom patterns to describe this new group of unfolding mechanisms.
Social Connection Is Vital to Physical Health
Research confirms that social isolation and loneliness significantly impact health and mortality, but new BYU research shows that most people still underestimate its importance. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a BYU psychology and neuroscience professor, and Andrew Proctor, a doctoral student, recently published two studies showing that the general population and medical providers don’t understand the extent to which social connection affects physical health.
BYU’s Green Thumbs Earn Gold
BYU’s landscaping team is the best in the field—literally. While most national championships are won on the court or the track, this one was claimed with pruned shrubs, expertly placed pavers, and top-tier irrigation systems. BYU’s landscaping program just won its 10th national championship. This is the sixth win that BYU’s landscaping program has had in the last seven years.
BYU Gets Two Student Emmys—Again
BYU students claimed top honors in the animation and commercial categories at this year’s College Television Awards, widely known as the Student Emmys. This is BYU’s fourth consecutive win in the Student Emmy animation category, this time for the short film Student Accomplice, which also earned bronze at the Student Academy Awards. BYU AdLab students won for their commercial Welcome to the W, which marks the AdLab’s sixth straight win in the Student Emmys for commercials.
BYU Board of Trustees
Brigham Young University was founded and is supported and guided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BYU trustees consist of the Church’s First Presidency, several Apostles, and other leaders.
The Mission of Brigham Young University
BYU assists “individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life” by providing “a period of intensive learning in a stimulating setting where a commitment to excellence is expected and the full realization of human potential is pursued.”
The Aims of a BYU Education
To achieve its mission, “BYU seeks to develop students of faith, intellect, and character who have the skills and the desire to continue learning and to serve others throughout their lives.”
Becoming BYU
“Our task is to become the university that prophets have foretold, . . . the BYU of prophecy and promise. . . . This, then, is our challenge during my administartion: becoming BYU.” —President C. Shane Reese
Second Century Address
“You must speak with authority and excellence to your professional colleagues in the language of scholarship, and you must also be literate in the language of spiritual things. We must be more bilingual, in that sense, to fulfill our promise in the second century of BYU.” —President Spencer W. Kimball
Envisioning BYU
With Brigham Young University approaching its sesquicentennial, the administration invited former academic vice president John S. Tanner to update the classic anthology Educating Zion. In the two printed volumes of Envisioning BYU, some of the selections have been edited for length, but the complete text and audio of most speeches are available online.