daniel peterson
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Highlights from BYU Colleges: Professors study off-cycle elections, researchers improve Bingham Canyon reclamation
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
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Exchange students share experiences with Islam, dispel myths
BYU junior Melena Warden, far right, and the Saadaldeen family spend time in Athens, Greece. Warden spent about a month and a half living with the Saadaldeen family in Greece. Warden said living with the Saadaldeens, who are Muslim, taught her things she would like to apply to her own worship. (Melena Warden)
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Accusations against BYU professor appear unsubstantiated
BYU religion associate professor Lincoln Blumell looks over some of the papyrus he helps translate in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. Blumell was accused of dealing with cuneiform clay tablets involved in a scandal with Hobby Lobby. Blumell deals primarily with Greek and Coptic writings on papyrus. (Hannah Gasinski)
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BYU law professor teaches as Scholar in Residence at USC
John W. 'Jack' Welch (left) shakes hands with Larry Eastland, chairman and president of the Widtsoe Foundation, and Edina Lekovic, former public policy director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, at a two-day conference at USC. (Jan Hemming)
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Social media useful in preventing Islamophobia, raising awareness
Scrolling through Twitter after an ISIS-related terrorist attack yields tweet after tweet defending the religion of Islam — and a slew of negative, incriminatory and degrading Islamophobic tweets. Many of the positive statements are retweeted and praised, but so are the Islamophobic messages.
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UN representative addresses Catholic Mormon cooperation, religious freedom at UVU
The Vatican representative to the United Nations said religious freedom's decline requires the international community to defend religious minorities at a conference on Mormons and Catholics at UVU April 13.
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