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Wildfires in residential areas are on the rise; why hydrants and the water system behind them were never meant to stop those fires
BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has particular expertise in the planning, design, construction and operation of public water systems. That expertise has been increasingly important (and regularly sought out) in the wake of apocalyptic wildfires that have taxed those public water systems.
Cougar Query: Dawan Coombs
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
Meet the BYU math student helping make wildfire predictions faster and smarter
Using machine learning and math, a BYU student improved a key tool firefighters rely on during wildfire season
Devotional: Answering the dual calls for academic excellence and discipleship
“Sometimes the pursuit of academic and professional excellence and the pursuit of discipleship are framed as being in tension with each other,” William Clayton said in his devotional address. “My experience is that these pursuits can actually reinforce each other in important ways when we keep our eye single to the glory of God.”
Cougar Query: William Clayton
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
Two new deans named at BYU
Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Justin Collings has appointed two new deans: Christopher “Chip” Oscarson in the College of Humanities and Diane Reich in the College of Fine Arts and Communications.
BYU law professor honors ancestors and advocates for tribal rights
With 574 tribes, countless treaties and evolving court decisions, Native American law can be a complex maze. BYU law professor Michalyn Steele has spent her career helping navigate that maze in defense of Native rights and sovereignty.
BYU: A place we can go to the light, be filled with light and share light
Richard Houseman, dean of BYU Continuing Education, gave his devotional address Tuesday morning in the Marriott Center. He centered his remarks on a powerful spiritual pattern of going toward light, being filled with it and then sharing it.
Geology meets history: BYU professor studies WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches
Eighty years after D-Day, BYU geologists uncover lingering WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches to study how history still shapes the coastline today.
Forum: Lessons from Noise: Crackle to Calm
This year’s Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, Kent Gee, delivered his forum address on the science of sound and how he and BYU students have contributed to significant research in the acoustics industry.