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Q&A with Dean Laura Bridgewater
Spend a few minutes with Dean Laura Bridgewater as she answers five questions and starts her tenure as Dean of the College of Life Sciences. "There are people working and studying in offices, classrooms, laboratories, and centers throughout our college who have exceptional insights based on their own experience, and I want to tap into those insights . . ."
Devotional: Cultivating godliness in mortality
Rachel Wadham, senior librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library, delivered Tuesday's devotional address. She spoke about how vital it is to become more information literate, and how doing so will help us better navigate the world.
BYU names new interim dean, associate dean and department chairs
Academic Vice President Shane Reese announced new administrative appointments, including an interim dean, associate dean and five new department chairs. All these new hires are effective July 1.
Cougar Query: “The title of my autobiography would be 'Loud Librarian'"
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Rachel Wadham, senior librarian for education and juvenile collections at the Harold B. Lee Library.
As the U.S. obesity epidemic grows, new BYU study shows who is most likely to be part of it
BYU researchers found that more than half of American adults in a new study gained 5% or more body weight over a 10-year period. What’s more, more than a third of American adults gained 10% or more body weight and almost a fifth gained 20% or more body weight.
Why Investing in International Nutrition Matters
Since nutrition is often the answer to preventable diseases, international interventions are crucial
Devotional: Faith in the Lord, faith in ourselves
Tiffany Turley Bowcut, Title IX coordinator, delivered today's devotional address. She spoke on the importance of having faith in the Lord and in ourselves.
Cougar Query: "The title of my autobiography would be, 'Life Is Hard, But God Is Good.'"
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Tiffany Turley Bowcut, Title IX coordinator.
Bunches of Oats: BYU professors untangle oat's evolutionary history for Nature paper
For the first time, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of a modern oat, the Swedish variety “Sang.” BYU plant and wildlife sciences professors Jeff Maughan and Rick Jellen played an important role in the international project, sequencing the genomes of two of oat’s ancient progenitors to elucidate its evolutionary history. The group’s findings were recently published as the cover article in top science journal Nature.
Cougar Query: "Returning to school after being a college dropout for 20 years sparked my interest in my field"
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Rhonda Sandberg, Marriott School undergraduate advisement center director.