BYU Working to Uncover How Media Affects Families
Project aims to understand the long-term effects of media on children.
Giving Is Helping
February 2020
Aiming for More
Donations to the university help students integrate their total BYU experience - their faith and reasoning, their knowledge and conduct, their public lives and private convictions - into a fundamentally sacred way of life.
The Inspiring Learning Initiative helps more students do this. In 2018, more than 6,342 students had inspiring learning experiences, which were funded by donors like you. Thank you. Here are some of their inspiring stories.
BYU Stories
Learning by Receiving and Giving
With her mother gone, Niederhauser, who is the youngest of five children, felt added pressure to cover her college education expenses herself.
Tenaciously Beating the Odds
From drugs and homelessness to succeeding at BYU In the accounting program. Hear from one grateful student.
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.
A Creative Epiphany
While on a study abroad scholarship in Cannes, France, Ad Lab student Maddy Thompson got to work on some ad campaigns for major brands. It was there that she had an epiphany about her potential.
Using Tech to Decipher Your Gait
With the help of a Fulton grant, Spencer Petersen is using a combination of resources that measures the forces under the foot to research the role your big toe plays in the simple act of walking.
Making a Sundance-Honored Film
Oscar Ignacio Jimenez and Luis Fernando Puente were ecstatic to learn that the short film they made would premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Starring on a Chinese Reality Show
Josh Robinson entered a BYU language competition, and soon found himself competing at a global level with much of the competition broadcast on China television to millions of viewers.
Interacting with Marla the Fish
Student researchers use an animated fish to teach social interaction to children with autism.
Pulling Back the M&A Curtain
Law student got to be mentored by the largest law firm in the United States, as part of the first-ever BYU Law Deals Academy in New York City.
Warming Hearts and Gers
Mongolia has a massive air quality problem that poses a serious health risk, especially to children. Some engineering students tackled the life-and-death problem as part of their engineering Capstone project.