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Languages and leadership: How BYU prepared Andrew Bonney to build bridges of connection
Andrew Bonney speaks Armenian, Arabic, Azerbaijani and Turkish. He is also fluent in the languages of leadership, love and loss.
Honored Graduate: Rebekah Jones
It would be impossible for many people to maintain the schedule Rebekah Jones (CELL '23) does, but she has learned to rely on her community to accomplish her goals instead of trying to do everything by herself.
After ADHD diagnosis, mother of four returns to school to help others with disabilities
Rebekah Kaylor knows personally what it’s like to be burdened with an unrecognized disability. When three of her children were diagnosed with ADHD, she realized that she shared many of their symptoms. She eventually learned that she herself had the same condition, which explained why she’d struggled to complete college as a young adult years before.
BYU Tuition to increase 3% for 2023–24 academic year
Brigham Young University will implement a 3% increase for undergraduate tuition for the 2023–24 academic year. This will bring the undergraduate rate per semester from $3,152 to $3,248, an increase of $96.
Honored Graduate: Katelynn Hales
Katelynn Hales (EXSC '23) finds fulfillment in helping others achieve their health goals. She’s currently interning as a health coach—she works with others to help them lead healthy lifestyles in ways that work for them. "I'm always going to be interested in helping myself and others live a healthy life . . ."
ChatGPT can’t ace this test, but experts think it soon will… What it means for teaching
An astonishing 327 co-authors from 186 educational institutions in 14 countries participated in a new BYU-led study testing the capacity of ChatGPT to handle university-level accounting exams. They contributed 25,181 classroom accounting exam questions to see if the bot could outscore students.
BYU Successes Bloom at National Collegiate Landscape Competition
BYU plant and landscape systems students came away from the 2023 National Collegiate Landscape Competition with a second-place team win, networking experiences, and thousands of dollars in scholarships.
Wheatley Institute report: sexual restraint during dating years linked to strong marriages
The report reviews a series of recent studies using several different national datasets showing that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages. These studies conclude that the number of sex partners a person has prior to marriage is one of the strongest predictors of divorce in social science research.
Graduate Student Feature: Hillary Wadsworth
Hillary Wadsworth (NEURO ’24) is passionate about helping others achieve their goals. As a graduate student working on research with undergraduates, she understands it's her responsibility to cheer them on in all their endeavors. “One of the biggest motivations with my students is to offer them every opportunity possible," she says. "I want them to have a good experience in the lab, just like I did as an undergraduate."
From struggle to strength: How faith and community transformed the life of BYU student Jeremiah Tolento
For Tolento, a first-generation college student, the BYU experience was deeper than a world-class education. It was a place that helped him realize his full divine potential – a caring community of faith and friends unlike he’d ever experienced before.