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Close Burger Menu Icon Skip to main content News Menu University Communications Search Faith Intellect Character Events Announcements Intellect BYU study: Wildfires increase winter snowpack — but that isn’t necessarily a good thing By Todd Hollingshead February 04, 2020 Deep in the Tushar mountains, some three hours south of BYU’s campus, Ph.D. student Jordan Maxwell and two other students found themselves in deep snow, both literally and figuratively. Read Full Story Intellect Praising students in a classroom setting has big impact on their behavior By Aaron Sorenson January 29, 2020 The number of times a teacher compliments or recognizes a student’s good behavior, compared to how often the teacher reprimands the student, the more likely that student is going to stay focused on the task at hand. Read Full Story Intellect BYU Forum: 26 Years to Pluto with Commitment and Collaboration By Kaylee Esplin January 28, 2020 In Tuesday’s campus forum, aerospace engineer and planetary scientist Alan Stern discussed the NASA mission to Pluto, New Horizons, and how his team was able to accomplish the impossible through commitment and collaboration. Read Full Story Intellect Lost Einsteins: Reducing poverty increases innovation By Joe Hadfield January 27, 2020 Law professor and neuroscientist Stephanie Plamondon Bair is making a new case for laws aimed at reducing poverty: They will fuel economic growth through an untapped pool of innovators. Read Full Story Intellect Nature Study: Increasing number of university-licensed startups in the U.S. are not actually operating By Todd Hollingshead January 23, 2020 An analysis of the Top 50 patent-producing universities in the United States finds a staggering increase in the amount of university-licensed startups that exist on paper, but are not really doing anything — no employees, often no physical location, no economic impact, finds the Nature Biotechnology study. Read Full Story Faith BYU Devotional: Free to Choose By Kaylee Esplin January 21, 2020 Elder Ronald A. Rasband, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered Tuesday’s campus Devotional address. He spoke about agency and religious freedom. Read Full Story Intellect BYU professor’s full-length film accepted to Sundance Film Festival By Aaron Sorenson January 21, 2020 Robert Machoian Graham has seen four of his past films make it to Sundance. The latest marks the first time one of his full-length films has been accepted. Read Full Story Intellect Drinking 1% milk instead of 2% milk is associated with 4.5 years of less aging in adults By Todd Hollingshead January 15, 2020 Drinking low-fat milk is associated with longer telomeres in adults. Adults who drink whole and 2% milk experience significant additional aging on the cellular level. Read Full Story Faith BYU Devotional: Everything we need By Kaylee Esplin January 14, 2020 Elder Michael T. Ringwood, General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered Tuesday’s campus Devotional address. He spoke about precious truths and gifts from Heavenly Father. Read Full Story Announcements Devotional and Forum schedule for Winter Semester 2020 By January 09, 2020 Every Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty and staff head to the Marriott Center for the weekly Devotional or Forum address. BYU President Kevin J Worthen and his wife Peggy kick off the semester and are followed by members of the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU employees and a range of industry leaders and thinkers. Entertainment assemblies celebrating the talent of BYU students round out the semester schedule. Read Full Story Next Most Popular Articles Drinking 1% milk instead of 2% milk is associated with 4.5 years of less aging in adults Devotional and Forum schedule for Winter Semester 2020 Accounting students land BYU another No. 1 ranking A Decade in Review at BYU BYU Devotional: Enduring Joy Contact Us BYU University Communications ASB C-347 Provo, UT 84602 801-422-4511 Submit Story Idea News Categories Faith Intellect Character Announcements Events Related Links BYU.edu Mission & Aims of BYU BYU Alumni Give to BYU Connect With Us Link to facebook Link to instagram Link to twitter Link to youtube PROVO, UT 84602, USA | 801-422-4636 | © 2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PROVO, UT 84602, USA 801-422-4636 © 2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...