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“Excuse me, sir, did you paint this?”—student sleuths 300 year-old mystery
Undergrad Caroline Larson is hoping to answer a centuries-old art history question—Adoration of the Shepherds, who really painted it? Full Story
BYU Student Trains El Salvadorans to Make Inexpensive Prosthetics
Mechanical engineering student David Williams has his hands full—and then there are the legs. Full Story
Learning to Teach—Recent Grad Helps Students in DC and Houston
Alyssa Larrabee is the youngest of her single mother’s five children and the first in her family to attend and graduate from college. And she wouldn’t have been able to do so without your generosity. Full Story
BYU Brain Researcher Preparing for Life-changing Career
Scholastically speaking, second-year PhD student Daniel Good has lived up to his surname and then some. To date, Good has coauthored an impressive six published papers about brain functionality and rehabilitation. Two of the articles were in Psychophysiology, which EEG brain researchers view as the top-rated journal in their specialty. Full Story
Provo, Brussels, Cork—classics student gets a broad BYU education
This past summer student John Russell had what he calls his most memorable BYU experience—he was a political analyst intern at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. “I am convinced that my fellow interns, my lunch mates, will one day be prime ministers or presidents of their home countries,” he says. Full Story
Nurse, immigrant from Czech Republic cares for U.S. veterans
As final preparation for their careers, student nurses at Brigham Young University take a course that allows them to experience the breadth and diversity of the human condition. In this course Petr Ruda, a native of the Czech Republic, focused on veterans. Full Story
Real investments prepare student for venture capital career
MBA student Cody Campbell is serving as managing director of Cougar Capital, BYU’s $850,000 student-managed venture capital and private equity fund. “The work I am doing with Cougar Capital is identical to the work I am currently doing at a real venture capital firm,” he says. “My Cougar Capital experience has been the most meaningful, useful, and realistic preparation of my academic career.” Full Story
Eight law students accept federal and state clerkships
In recent months eight students from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School have accepted federal and state judicial clerkships. All say that their BYU experience was enhanced thanks to donors. Full Story
Student from Germany documents Church members’ wartime experiences
Judith Sartowski, a student from Germany, is part of a BYU research team interviewing members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Germany during World War II. “I am blessed to listen to these faithful people and hear their heroic stories,” she says. “They stayed strong in very trying circumstances.” Full Story
CS students study proteins to better understand Down syndrome
Developing sophisticated computer algorithms that model key interaction among human proteins, computer science students Kendell Clement and Nathaniel Gustafson are part of a mentored-student learning project in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences that may lead to a better of the causes of Down syndrome. Full Story
Vanderbilt medical student discovered passion for lab work at BYU
Mentored learning opportunities in the College of Life Sciences opened the eyes of Niki Winters to lab-based medical research, which has become her academic passion. She is currently a student at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine training to be a medical scientist with a combined MD and PhD degree. Full Story
