How Giving Is Helping
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
Scholarship enabled student to prepare for career as a special educator
Elizabeth Lobendahn graduated in December from the David O. McKay School of Education with a degree in special education. Her BYU studies and time as a student teacher focused on students with severe disabilities. Full Story
Master’s student aims to improve health and safety of world’s children
With funding available from the Mary Lou Fulton Chair in the College of Health and Human Performance, master of public health student Ryan Lindsay designed a survey to gather data on the attitudes and perceptions of street children in the Philippines. Governments and NGOs around the world are looking for ways to promote health and safety of such children, who are at risk for sexually transmitted diseases. Full Story
Two BYU teams win honors at business plans competition
This past summer two student teams from BYU’s Marriott School of Management won awards and cash at the 25th annual Global Moot Corp Competition—a prestigious business plans competition. 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
Studying floods in Mexico kindles enthusiasm in future engineer
In 2006 Joshua Draper, a civil engineering major in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology, conducted research on flooding in Mexico. Draper, his BYU peers, and colleagues from two local universities built a computer model to map potential flood areas, which was then used to predict flooding’s effects. Full Story
Aspiring historian defined his future thanks to Lee Library research grant
Recent BYU graduate Rob Taber was muddled in graduate-school applications when he learned about Harold B. Lee Library research grants. “The grant I received played an important role in my education,” says Taber, an aspiring historian. Full Story
Intern works for U.S. Speaker of the House in Washington, D.C.
As part of BYU’s Washington Seminar in 2007, Diane Bailey, an international relations major in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, interned with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as the Interparliamentary Affairs Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 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
Communications student receives prestigious Ed Bradley Scholarship
College of Fine Arts and Communications student Jennifer Borget was awarded the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation’s Ed Bradley scholarship for 2007. The scholarship provides Borget with $10,000 and a trip to the foundation’s annual conference and exhibition. Full Story
Nursing student learns workings of health care system in Ecuador
Going to Ecuador was one of the highlights of student Tricia Harris’ undergraduate career, and she couldn’t have done it without donor funds. Full Story
Humanitarian’s fluency in Swahili facilitates travel in Kenya
After serving a Church mission, anthropology major Braden Duncan decided that he needed to learn a language to travel the world. He was surprised that the College of Humanities’ Center for Language Studies (CLS), which is funded in part by donations, offered Swahili, a non-mainstream language that intrigued him because of his interest in Africa. 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
