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How Food Waste Inspired PrithiviRaj Jegannathan

By Parker Smith
April 08, 2024
When Prithiviraj Jegannathan learned that 1/3 of global food production goes to waste, he had to be a part of the solution.
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Pushing the Boundaries of Science and Self: Brandon Lopez

By Parker Smith
April 08, 2024
Brandon Lopez's master's research on the HIV virus is part of a global battle to combat HIV and AIDS. Yet enthusiastically mentoring undergraduates and advocating for his fellow students has been just as important to his BYU experience.
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BYU’s First Biotech Career Fair Spurs Student Networking

By Parker Smith
April 03, 2024
The College of Life Sciences held a biotechnology career fair with the BYU Chapter of BioHive Utah, drawing one of the largest crowds in the Career and Experiential Learning Center’s history. Students networked with from some of Utah’s fastest-growing biotech firms.
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MMBIO CURA Winner Researches a New Technique to Fight Cancer

By Parker Smith
March 29, 2024
Drawn to help those suffering from chronic illness, Joshua Bennett (MMBIO) is focusing his research on making antibodies that mark cancer cells for macrophages and neutrophils to attack.
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Intellect

Green-thumb dynasty: BYU landscaping wins fifth national championship in six years

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 27, 2024
For the fifth time in six years, BYU students dug, pruned and planted their way to the National Collegiate Landscaping Competition title, the March Madness of college landscaping teams. BYU bested 50 other universities in the four-day event, outscoring the second-place finisher by more than 358 points and breaking the 5000-point total for the first time in the 48-year history of the tournament.
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Communicating Research Relevance: The Three Minute Thesis Competition 2024

By Trent Olsen
March 20, 2024
Graduate students from the College of Life Sciences went head to head in the College's Three Minute Thesis Competition. Winning thesis presentation topics included SuperShoe technology for clinical care, using a zebrafish brain structure in order to better understand autism in the brain, and improving the way we study diabetes.
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Joshua Wright: Preserving Hearts and Strengthening Bones

By Shannon Haddock
February 28, 2024
One premed student's Boston internships open his eyes to a plethora of possibilities in medicine.
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Greece Study Abroad: Exploring Medicine and Refining Faith 

By Becca Aylworth Wright
February 27, 2024
A study abroad in Greece taught one premed student the value of commitment to patients and to God.  
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Student Strives to Improve Quality of Life in Nepal, Starting with Her Own

By Becca Aylworth Wright
February 27, 2024
A public health student went to Nepal to make a change; she didn’t know her own heart would be first on the list.
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