College of Family Home and Social Sciences
- TIME Magazine turned to history professor Rebecca de Schweinitz for her expertise on youth activism in American history for a recent article. The article references two of DeSchweinitz’s books: “If We Could Change the World: Young People” and “America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality and Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present.”
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology
- Construction students and faculty were honored at the 2018 National Association of Home Builders Show in Orlando, Florida. Construction and facilities management professor Brian Capt received the Outstanding Educator Award, and the BYU Construction Management team won third place in the show category in the student competition.
Marriott School of Business
- Marriott school alum Brent Anderson and his wife Michelle co-founded a family-based company called Coriaria. The company launched its first product this month: Everflect, an app that encourages discussion between partners.
College of Life Sciences
- Senior Anne Thomas is BYU’s fifth ever Gates Scholar and will begin her doctoral program at Cambridge University this fall. The fellowship is an all-expenses paid experience funded by Bill and Melinda Gates.
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
- Eighteen graduate students participated in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences’ Three Minute Thesis competition this year. The competition challenges students to present a thesis that non-specialists can understand in less than three minutes to win cash prizes.
- Statistics professor Gilbert Fellingham conducted research to create a model that could predict how many home runs a major league baseball player will hit in a season. Fellingham’s passion for sports and statistics motivated the research.
J. Reuben Clark Law School
- Law professors Gladriel Shobe and Clifton Fleming are among the top 20 most-downloaded tax law professors of all time. Shobe ranks no. 18 with 23,544 downloads of her scholarly articles, while Fleming ranks no. 7 with 86,935 downloads.
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