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Eye on the Y: Professor researches benefits of picture books for students, School of Music and Department of Dance collaborate on contemporary performance and nursing students experience the light of Christ during practicum in Spain.

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Humanities professor Deborah Dean says picturebooks can be beneficial to all students, not just children. (BYU College of Humanities)

Humanities professor says students of all ages can benefit from picture books

Upon using picture books in her high school classroom, English Department Chair Deborah Dean learned that they had an amazing effect on her students.

Dean compiled her findings in her 2024 book "Power in Pictures: Using Picture books to Energize Secondary ELA Instruction." Dean said picture books have a variety of benefits for students of all ages, including multimodality and classroom unity.

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BYU's School of Music and Department of Dance collaborate to perform a contemporary performance, "Fragments of Movement and Sound". (Athena Davis)

School of Music, Department of Dance, collaborate with the College of William & Mary professor for "Fragments of Movement and Sound"

Jihea Hong-Park, a professor of piano at BYU, noticed her students were intimidated by contemporary works.

This led her to reach out to professors Kori Wakamatsu and Keely Song Glenn from BYU’s dance department to choreograph a dance to go with a more contemporary style musical performance.

Sophia Serghi, a professor of music at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, agreed to compose a contemporary piece for the School of Music students to perform. The result was "Fragments of Movement and Sound."

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Nursing students experience the light of Christ during the Global & Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicum in Spain. (BYU College of Nursing)

Nursing students experience the light of Christ during practicum in Spain

Students from the School of Nursing traveled to Spain for the school's eighth annual Global & Population Health Nursing Clinical Practicum.

While in Spain, the students noticed images of Christ in many places they visited. Students were able to spread the light of Christ with those they served.

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