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Intellect

Awards season 2022: BYU students reap scholarships, first-place finishes

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
July 06, 2022 02:07 PM
BYU students continue to make an impact in various fields of study – and they’ve got the hardware, awards and scholarships to prove it.
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Intellect

Bunches of Oats: BYU professors untangle oat's evolutionary history for Nature paper

By Christie Allen
June 13, 2022 06:00 AM
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.
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BYU earns No. 1 Overall ‘Seed’ in Landscaping Championship; Brings title back to home turf

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 25, 2022 12:03 PM
This past week BYU took home its fourth-consecutive National Collegiate Landscape Title, a championship that means BYU is once again best in the land for taking care of land… and water and rocks and trees and shrubs.




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