Eye on the Y: Rare Gates of Paradise replica restored and on display at the BYU Museum of Art, Micro to Mega Engineering: Scaling up the 'World’s Smallest Nerf Blaster' and Morgan Bronson wins National Legal Writing Award

Gilded plaster cast panels of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” are installed in the atrium of the BYU Museum of Art in Provo, Utah. The restored replica will be displayed through October 2026. (courtesy of Aaron Cornia/BYU Photo)

Rare Gates of Paradise replica restored and on display at the BYU Museum of Art

BYU Museum of Art's "Gilded Paradise" exhibition opened Friday, Feb. 20 and will be on display until October 2026.

The exhibit features a restored plaster replica of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous Gates of Paradise in Florence, Italy.

Students and faculty spent one decade and about 13,000 hours restoring the panels.

The exhibit depicts stories from the Old Testament and is one of the most important pieces in the early Renaissance.

BYU engineering students work with Mark Rober to scale up the "World's Smallest Nerf Blaster." The project showed that compliant mechanisms retain properties when scaled. (courtesy of BYU Video)

Micro to Mega Engineering: Scaling up the 'World’s Smallest Nerf Blaster'

BYU engineering students worked with Mark Rober, BYU engineering alumnus and YouTube personality, to scale up the "World's Smallest Nerf Blaster."

Their original design, a micro ant-blaster, has become a mega launcher with the same flexible, single-body design.

The project was to show that compliant mechanisms retain their initial mechanical properties when scaled. Their research was published in PLOS One.

Morgan Bronson wins the Burton Award. Bronson was the Editor-in-Chief of the BYU Law Review. (courtesy of BYU Law)

Morgan Bronson wins National Legal Writing Award

A BYU law student, Morgan Bronson, won the Burton Award for her article “Context in Context: The Collapse of Title IX's Substantial Control Requirement."

This is the fourth consecutive year a BYU Law student has received the honor.

The award recognizes excellence in legal writing and is presented by the Burton Foundation in association with Law360 and the Library of Congress.

Bronson, former editor-in-chief of the BYU Law Review, is now a law clerk for Judge Danielle J. Forrest of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.