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January 2024
Growing up, Katie King was the party planner among her friends. “I always had a proclivity for event management,” she says. So when it came time to choose a major, she was excited to find experience design and management at BYU Marriott.
King soon learned that event planning requires a lot of online marketing, and she began looking for a job that would give her the experience she needed. She found a student job as a social media and events specialist at the Religious Studies Center, where she promotes BYU Religious Education events, highlights faculty members, and boosts the Y Religion podcast.
“The experience I am getting here will certainly help me in my career as an event manager,” she says.
Many students benefit from mentoring opportunities on campus that are sponsored by donors. And although King knew that her scholarship and many of the facilities at BYU were provided by donors, she was surprised to learn that her job is donor-funded as well. She says, “Now I realize that donors play an important part in the majority of my amazing experiences at BYU.”
When Walter Barrus experienced devastating hardships, Brigham Young University helped transform his life for the better. Margaret Barrus’s BYU degree, earned later in life, opened doors for her as a computer programmer. Today, they are using a planned gift to improve the lives of others at BYU and beyond.
When Kika Londoño was eight years old, her family moved from Utah to Colombia for a year and a half. During this formative time, she came to love Latin America and the Spanish language.
For many students receiving a scholarship or other financial assistance from donors is a blessing. For others it can only be described as “life-changing”.
Many students benefit from mentoring opportunities on campus that are sponsored by donors. And although Katie King knew that her scholarship and many of the facilities at BYU were provided by donors, she was surprised to learn that her job is donor-funded as well.
Researchers at BYU’s Computational Health Science Research Collaborative are crunching data to see how Reddit users search for and sift through medical information and how this has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.
