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BYU's rangeland management team wins Trail Boss award

By Ellie Haverlock
February 25, 2026 10:49 AM
At Brigham Young University's Life Sciences Building, students and faculty on the rangeland management team have been studying rangelands for years. Rangelands include deserts, grasslands, shrublands and woodlands.
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BYU researchers map the oat genome

Kaleb Davies
By Kaleb Davies
November 19, 2025 12:16 PM
Oats are a seemingly simple breakfast food, but inside each grain lies DNA that BYU professors are helping decode, work that could shape the future of farming, nutrition and food security.
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Students enjoy classes at Life Sciences Greenhouse

By Stacia O'Leary
November 28, 2023 12:00 AM
Many students think of campus as a place to sit at a desk and listen to a lecture. In the Life Sciences Greenhouse, however, students and professors get their hands dirty learning about plants and systems.
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Readers' Forum: Filling our hearts with house plants, how reconnecting with nature can heal our trauma

By Universe Contributor
March 06, 2023 12:00 AM
This summer will mark two years since my family and I got sent to “Covid camps” in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was two and a half weeks of forced empty space — the emptiest time I’ve ever experienced.
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Readers' Forum: 4/28/20

April 28, 2020 12:00 AM
Utah soda craze
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Campus News

Succulent trend sprouts at BYU

By Marinda Risk
April 06, 2016 12:00 AM
Allyssa Pike, co-owner of Penny's Plants, tends to her succulent plants inside a greenhouse. The business is named after Pike's soon-to-be-born daughter. (Ari Davis)
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No more fake plants

By Universe Contributor
June 03, 2015 12:00 AM
Now, I know it is late for me to say this, but it seems a shame that BYU needs to get rid of all its house plants after spending so much to get new ones for the LSB.
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BYU to replace indoor greenery with artificial plants

By Nalia Tafua
April 02, 2015 12:00 AM
Live plants are on display in the Joseph Fielding Smith Building. (Elliott Miller)
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