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Cougar Query: "My favorite lecture to teach is on our environmental stewardship as members of Christ's Church."
Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Loreen Allphin, associate dean in the College of Life Sciences.
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Going Great Lengths to Save the Salt Lake
What started as a student research project on the Great Salt Lake turned into a report making national headlines. Karoline Busche worked with thirty-one coauthors to help Utahns know how to protect the Great Salt Lake from disappearing.
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Exploring Catharanthine's Effects on Alcohol Addiction
What if the cure to alcohol addiction could be found in a pill? BYU students Nathan Steed (Neuroscience '23) and Aubrey Moedl (Neuroscience '23) presented their research on treating alcohol addiction at the College Undergraduate Research Awards.
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Students Inspire at Elementary Science Fair
BYU students from across majors attended a science fair at a Spanish Fork elementary school, where exercise science professor Matt Seeley brought BYU students to serve as judges and consultants to kids’ projects.
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Opening Doors: Juliette Ball, BYU’s 2023 Student Employee of the Year
Many titles come to mind when describing Juliette Ball, but the most important one to her is learner. “Most sticky situations I find myself in are a result of forgetting my call to learn—from my experiences, from God, and from the wonderful people in my life,” she says. “Regardless of any other status I may gain and lose over the course of my life, I hope I always remember to learn.”
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ForGOT Milk? BYU students address drop in dairy milk drinking with 'legen-dairy' packaging designs
A group of 25 BYU food science, industrial design and graphic design students are helping address the decline in dairy milk consumption by creating more appealing labels and packaging for cow milk.
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Promoting brain health requires more than reducing seizures
Epilepsy, a neurological disorder involving seizures, is most prevalent among those 70 and older. Public health professor Evan Thacker and his colleagues researched cognitive decline among individuals with epilepsy and a vascular risk factor in order to improve brain health for those suffering with epilepsy.
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Women are routinely excluded from exercise research across the country. A new BYU study shows why that’s misguided
A new BYU study debunks the assumption that menstrual cycles disqualify women from exercise research. Analyzing women’s exercise performance across their menstrual cycles, researchers found no variability in endurance thresholds or performance: from workout to workout, women’s performance was just as consistent as men’s.
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Brick by brick, breath by breath
Nepali brick kiln workers fire and make bricks for twelve hours a day, breathing in crystalline silica that scars their lungs. BYU students Esther Erickson and Mariah Taylor used travel grants given by generous donors to learn more about the air the kiln workers breathe and how it affects their lungs.
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