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Eye on the Y: BYU team conducts study to improve health in Nepal, new species named after BYU professor, BYU cyber security program earns CyberCorps Scholarship for Service

Jaecie Stilovich
By Jaecie Stilovich
February 23, 2024 12:00 AM
An interdisciplinary BYU team studied air pollution and its effects in Nepal, specifically regarding Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley brick workers. The BYU team was made up of students and faculty from fields such as nutrition, public health, cell biology and engineering. Collaborators from the University of Utah, as well as local Nepali universities and leadership, also participated.
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Featured

Good News Thursday: Eye doctor aids the poor, Canary Islands hotel offers shelter to migrants

By Ally O'Rullian
April 15, 2021 12:00 AM
Dr. Sanduk Ruit is Nepal's best eye doctor. Known as the country’s “God of Sight,” Ruit is renowned for creating inexpensive cataract surgery. He offers his surgery to the poor community in Nepal. A makeshift hospital sits next to the Mayadevi temple where Buddha was born more than 2,600 years ago. Hundreds of people line up each day to help their fading eyesight. “The whole objective, aim and my passion and love is to see there remain no people with unnecessary blindness in this part of the world,” Ruit told the Associated Press.
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Featured

Good News Thursday: Late Baltimore Ravens superfan honored, dog saves family from burning home

By Ally O'Rullian
September 17, 2020 12:00 AM
https://twitter.com/Ravens/status/1304502239256510464
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Campus Events

BYU Refugee Empowerment Club fundraises for refugee education

By Katelyn Stiles
November 20, 2018 12:00 AM
From left, speakers Yaw Doh, Adheiu Arok, Amy Wylie, Spencer Call and Monica Call take the stage at the BYU Refugee Empowerment Club's Nov. 16 fundraising event. The club helps BYU students learn more about and serve refugees. (Katelyn Stiles)
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Featured

Things you should know today: 3/12/2018

By Mckayla Robinson
March 12, 2018 12:00 AM
Farmer Derek Klingenberg serenades cattle by playing 'Royals' by Lorde on his trombone. The cows flock to him from the horizon line, growing in numbers as Klingenberg continues to play. This video is just over four minutes long, but it's worth the view.
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News

Plane carrying 71 people crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu

By Associated Press
March 12, 2018 12:00 AM
Smoke rises after a passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. A passenger plane carrying 71 people from Bangladesh crashed and burst into flames as it landed Monday in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, killing dozens of people with others rushed to area hospitals, officials said.(Bishnu Sapkota via AP)
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Healthy Living

Humanitarian group aims for worldwide feminine hygiene access

By Tanner Young
April 29, 2016 12:00 AM
Women in rural towns of Nepal are secluded in small huts away from their families four days out of every month.
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Movies & Television

BYU filmmaker and philanthropist to screen Nepal movie on campus

By Sebastian Meyer
February 09, 2016 12:00 AM
Actress Rachel Hurd-Wood from the movie 'Highway to Dhampus' poses with a child in India. (Mind the Gap Worldwide/Facebook)
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Movies & Television

"Highway to Dhampus" film premieres

By Bailey Fruit
October 09, 2015 12:00 AM
Elizabeth James, played by Rachel Hurd-Wood, stars in 'Highway to Damphus.' 'Highway to Dhampus' comes to University Mall Cinemark October 9. (Julie Ahlander)
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World

Worst natural disasters

By Kate Hollis
May 27, 2015 12:00 AM
Natural disasters wreak havoc and ruin the lives of people both in the country affected and around the world, especially those who have friends or family in the area. Nepal is currently in a state of recovery after suffering from double earthquakes earlier this year, but it is not the only country still feeling the effects of a major catastrophe this century.
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World

Nepal's 2nd quake strengthens humanitarian efforts

By Chris Larson
May 14, 2015 12:00 AM
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck May 12 killed dozens and injured and displaced several thousands more, said Nepali Home Ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal.
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World

After 2nd quake, many in Nepal cut off by blocked roads

May 13, 2015 12:00 AM
Nepalese child Subha Laxini, 3, who was injured in Tuesday’s earthquake is carried by father Lak Bahadur on their way to a camp for the displaced in Chautara, Nepal, Wednesday, May 13, 2015.
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World

Hopelessness and faith for Nepalese in Provo

By Chris Larson
May 05, 2015 12:00 AM
Michelle McIntosh and her biological parents.
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World

World offers help after Nepal quake, but few know scope yet

April 27, 2015 12:00 AM
As world leaders and global charities try to grasp the scope of an earthquake that devastated parts of tiny, mountainous Nepal, they are preparing emergency aid for the survivors but worrying how to make sure it gets there.
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