Touchdown: How Plant Sciences Research Is Helping BYU Football
Passionate about both football and plant sciences, Katie Anselmi jumped at the chance to conduct research on the BYU football field, collecting data that benefits the health and wellness of the players and improves their game performance.
Spring 2025
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Ancient Enamel and Modern Insights: Exploring the Oral Microbiome of Egyptian Mummies
In the worn enamel and calcified plaque of ancient Egyptian teeth, Emily Buss and Carlos Moreno trace the evolution of oral bacteria—a link between the past and the present that offers insights into ancient diets, oral health, and disease.
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Unlocking Nature’s Time Capsule
Life sciences students are linking centuries-old research to the future at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, and helping to answer modern questions about biodiversity, climate change, and conservation.
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Lessons on Endurance
Ty Hopkins shares powerful insights from personal trials, ultra-endurance cycling races, and spiritual reflection to redefine endurance not as a grind to the finish line, but as a joyful, refining journey of growth, gratitude, and connection with God.
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Painting Science into Art: Duke Rogers’s Quest for Lifelong Learning
Dr. Duke Rogers finds joy in interweaving his two passions: science and art. Both fields have helped him lead a life full of curiosity, lifelong learning, and discovery.
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When Science Meets Service: Israel Davila-Aleman Brings Faith to the Forefront of Research
After an impactful healthcare experience as a teenager in the Hope Clinic, Israel Davila-Aleman discovered a passion for service and a drive for conducting research to help those in need.
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Dean's Message
Dean Bridgewater shares how the College of Life Sciences uses both scientific and spiritual truths to inspire learning and discovery for the benefit of the world.
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Fall 2024
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Craving Stability: Food Insecurity Among Students
It’s hard to focus on performing well in college when you’re not sure where your next meal will come from. Many students nationwide face this unsettling uncertainty every day.
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Halio: Solving Food Insecurity One Plant at a Time
Three BYU students created an innovation that could change the future of farming as we know it.
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The College of Life Sciences’ Home: Then and Now
Former dean James P. Porter reflects on the Life Sciences Building's origin story in celebration of its 10th anniversary.
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Life Sciences Patents: Innovations for the Benefit of the World
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Life Sciences Building, we share 10 scientific innovations that were created by life sciences faculty and students.
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Messages That Resonate: BYU Devotional Excerpts
Five faculty and administrators from the College of Life Sciences recently spoke at BYU's weekly devotional where they shared inspirational messages that were both intellectually enlarging and spiritually strengthening.
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A Scholar’s Thai Odyssey: Using Scientific Passion to Forge Connections and Serve
The time Curtis Hoffmann spent collaborating with Thai healthcare professionals expanded his mind, allowed him to reconnect with the Thai people, and opened doors for future research opportunities.
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Dean's Message
Dean Bridgewater shares how the College of Life Sciences' vision to inspire learning and discovery for the benefit of the world has led to remarkable innovations.
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Spring 2024
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Reimagining the Playing Field: How the Strong Youth Project Transforms Youth Sports
The Strong Youth Project, led by Dr. Matthew Seeley and Coach Justin Yee, aims to change the youth sports experience through communicating scientific research and enhancing the sport experience.
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5 Ways to Impact Global Health: Changing Communities Through Hopeful Service
Benjamin Crookston shares the progress that's been made in global health and how we can make a difference in our own communities.
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Growing Potential with Hydroponics
Students and faculty developed a hydroponics system to enable the Food and Care Coalition to provide the community with nutrient-rich meals year-round.
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Summer Snapshots: Connecting Science with Faith
Students from the college share how their summer travel experiences helped them see God's hand in the sciences.
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Sharing Truth in Science by Study and by Faith
As recipients of the college's Spiritually Strengthening Award, Dr. Ryan Cordner and Dr. Tim Jenkins exemplify how to teach by study and by faith in the sciences.
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Discovering the Impact of Polydrug Use on Addiction
Research from Dr. Jeffrey Edwards' Lab at BYU reveals that co-using morphine, an opioid, and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, may expedite the development of addiction.
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Dean's Message
Dean Bridgewater shares how the College of Life Sciences has exemplified BYU's dual heritage of "by study and by faith" over the course of the last year.
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Fall 2023
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Looking One Step Behind
Dr. Britlyn Orgill has connected more than 150 of BYU's premedical students with internships at premier R1 research institutions across the country, work she's added on top of her comedy and anesthesiology careers.
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Be The Match—Save a Life
Dr. Julianne Grose’s family made it their mission to run stem cell donor registration drives, and almost 50 students have donated to blood-cancer patients since she started.
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Skating Across the Finish Line into the Hall of Fame
As a high school senior, Barbara Lockhart qualified for the United States Speedskating Team. She was recently inducted into the US Speedskating Hall of Fame.
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Six Spiritual Lessons from the Natural World
Amidst the storms of life, associate dean Loreen Allphin shares how she found peace and refuge in the natural world.
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Handcrafting Access to Global Health
Melissa Levy helps lift thousands of people out of poverty by empowering 2,919 artisans in nearly 20 countries through her company Ethik.
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Finding New Ways to Use the Immune System to Fight Cancer
PhD student Kiara Whitley overcame substantial health-related obstacles to successfully publish cancer research identifying a new potential immunotherapy target.
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Dean's Message
Dean Laura Bridgewater introduces the new College of Life Sciences vision, mission, and values, focusing specifically on student-centered learning and discovery.
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