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Food

BYU students celebrate March 14, 'Pi Day'

By Candace Contreras
April 08, 2024 12:00 AM
The fourteenth day of the third month, or Pi Day, gives students and faculty an excuse to buy pie. What better way to celebrate 3.14, Pi Day, than by indulging in a pie-eating competition.
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Campus

BYU students take on challenging Putnam exam

By Ingrid Sagers
February 08, 2021 12:00 AM
BYU students are taking the challenging William Lowell Putnam exam virtually this year on Feb. 20.
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Devotionals and Forums

Professor says uncertainty is a gift

By Emma Benson
July 09, 2019 12:00 AM
BYU math education professor Amy Tanner speaks at a devotional on Tuesday, July 9. (Addie Blacker)
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Devotionals and Forums

Michael Dorff encourages students to see people differently

By Kaleena Mckell
April 03, 2018 12:00 AM
Michael Dorff, department chair of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, shares his love for math and encourages students to see others differently and treat all with compassion in his Tuesday devotional address. (Savannah Hopkinson)
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Campus Events

BYU math department, students respond to 'Women in Math' poster ridicule

By Kaleena Mckell
February 23, 2018 12:00 AM
BYU's mathematics department and female math students are responding to ridicule of a club poster that went viral.
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Good in the Universe

STEM Like a Girl fair encourages girls to pursue math, science careers

By Laurie Bradshaw
February 16, 2018 12:00 AM
A volunteer representing the water industry teaches girls about her career at the STEM Like a Girl event at Orem Library Feb. 12. (Savannah Hopkinson)
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Art

BYU celebrates math with annual Pi Day event

By Ryan Hernandez
March 15, 2017 12:00 AM
Pie and pi filled BYU's Brigham Square during the Mathematics Department's annual Pi Day event.
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Campus News

BYU STEM education majors help fill Utah's teacher void

By Marinda Risk
March 22, 2016 12:00 AM
Physics teaching professor Duane Merrell participates in a demonstration with his students. Merrell specializes in secondary physical science education. (Duane Merrell)
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Campus Events

People gather at BYU to celebrate Pi day

By Alayna Pehrson
March 15, 2016 12:00 AM
Students and people from the community gathered at the Wilkinson Student Center to celebrate Pi day on Mar. 14, 2016. The BYU Math department has hosted a variety of Pi day celebrations in the past and hosted this year's celebration as well.
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Campus

Percentage drops for women in most male-dominated majors

By Sarah Averett Harris
March 08, 2016 12:00 AM
Madison Boyer helps mostly male students with their studies as a mechanical engineering teaching assistant. She is part of the small percentage of women majoring in mechanical engineering at BYU. (Natalie Stoker)
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Local

Missing BYU student found after 5 days

By Stacie Faulk
November 12, 2015 12:00 AM
BYU student Yifeng Xu has been missing since Sunday, Nov 8.
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Campus Events

Big companies attend BYU's annual STEM fair

By Jordan Hammond
September 28, 2015 12:00 AM
A student speaks with an Adobe representative about job opportunities at the STEM Fair. The STEM Fair is held annually at BYU. (Maddi Driggs)
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Featured

I love BYU

By Emily Hales
March 13, 2015 12:00 AM
There are a lot of reasons to love BYU: our relatively inexpensive tuition, our beautiful campus, our talented athletes and artists, our accredited programs and our distinguished alumni, to name a few.
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State

Lawmakers told science-savvy education makes Utah competitive

By Collin Smith
February 11, 2014 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY — The leader of initiative pushing science and technology told a House Committee about the funding for digital math learning that has spurred a campaign by the private sector for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education — better know as STEM.
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Campus Events

How BYU is celebrating Pi day

By John Ternieden
March 13, 2012 12:00 AM
For some, 3.14159265 is as delicious as a oven baked treat.
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