BYU Students Help Build “Soft Robots” That Are Safer for Humans
Students in the BYU Robotics and Dynamics Lab are making robots that do the heavy lifting.
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“Getting Away With” a Student Academy Award
More than 30 BYU students created Student Accomplice, a fun and action-packed animated short.
BYU's Latest Truman Scholar
Jane Drinkwater exemplifies BYU’s aim to prepare students for “lifelong learning and service.”
Inspiring Learning: Putting Independence Back Within Reach
BYU students and Prótesis Imbabura work to make more affordable prosthetics for people in Ecuador.
Hosting the Collegiate Concrete Canoe Competition
True story: since the 1960s, engineering students across the country have been building concrete canoes to test their engineering excellence and hydrodynamic design skills. Naturally, they started racing them, and now it’s a thing.
Researching the Effects of Air Pollution in Nepal
An interdisciplinary BYU research team traveled to Nepal to measure brick workers’ exposure to pollutants and to assess their respiratory health.
Translating BYU Speeches Helps Launch Student Linguist’s Career
Kika graduated in 2023 and began her career in language services, a culmination of her experiences at home, abroad, and—finally—at BYU.
Foundations of the Restoration
Hundreds of BYU students shared their testimonies through a variety of mediums.
AdLab Teams Sweep Student Emmys
Student advertisers from BYU continue to gather accolades for their work.
BYU Students Uncover 1,000-year-old Artifacts in Mexico
At an excavation site in northern Mexico, BYU archaeology students and professors recently discovered artifacts that have been buried for 1,000 years, including pottery sherds, hammer stones, maize kernels and — intriguing at a location 250 miles inland — a shell bead from the Pacific Ocean.
The Book of Mormon on a Golden Disc
Innovative BYU engineering students have etched what they believe is the smallest physical copy of the Book of Mormon on a thin silicon microchip.
BYU Animation Wins Student Emmy Award
Can a baby kraken become a pirate? Ethan Briscoe and Tyler Bitner led a group of over 20 students in creating an animation telling this entertaining story.
Sharing BYU’s Light
BYU’s new institutional message “Light Shared” introduces the university’s “Inspiring Learning” message with the world.
AdLab Wins Student Emmy Award
Can you imagine BYU students making an ad about selling your car to buy a wedding ring? AdLab students did and won a prestigious award.
Ten Secrets to Healthy Living—Greek Style
Emily Flake was one of a group of health and wellness students that traveled to Ikaria, Greece, to learn about eating, living, and cooking the Mediterranean way.
Video Game Wins International Award
Emily Ellis and Gabe Reed directed and produced Liminus: The Silent Guard with nearly 50 other students to receive an International Award for video game design.
NASA’s Artemis I Launched, and BYU Heard It
How loud was the world’s most powerful rocket as it blasted off from NASA? A team of BYU Accoustics students and professors waited weeks to record and study its impact.
BYU Students Build and Launch “Selfie Cam” with NASA
Video:More than 60 students over a five-year period helped build the inexpensive 10-centimeter CubeSat.
Prestigious Film Festival Screens Animated BYU Film
Video: Salt , which was directed and produced by BYU students, was screened at the 2021 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
Feeding the World with Hybrid Quinoa
Video:Teams of BYU students and their faculty mentors are enriching the world with nutritious, growable grain.
Student Engineers Are Renowned Iceberg Trackers
Video:BYU—despite being landlocked in a state thousands of miles from the South Pole—has become a world leader in iceberg tracking.
BYU Engineering Team Virtually Recreates Campus
Video: Using drone-captured and ground images and applying GPS systems for accuracy, a civil engineering student assembled a 3D model of the BYU campus.
Studying the Runoff Effects of an Environmental Double Whammy
Video: In October 2018, BYU students had the rare chance to observe how back-to-back extreme events influenced water quality and quantity in Utah County.
BYU Biologists Seek to Create First Dragonfly Family Tree
Video: The BYU team’s goal is to piece together the first-ever phylogenic (genealogical) tree of all 6,300 known dragonfly species and their ancestors.
Cambodian Histories Preserved by BYU Researchers
Video:BYU professors and students are gathering stories from survivors of life under the Khmer Rouge regime.
BYU Students Create Animatronic Cougar
Video:Designed to introduce plays and similar events, “Cosmotron,” as he is fondly known, will bring added school spirit to BYU performances.