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BYU to receive $2.3 million NIH grant to tackle opioid crisis through wearable back sensor

BYU Engineering and Exercise Sciences researchers seek to more effectively diagnose lower back pain through novel technology.
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Intellect

BYU researchers helping connect fluid dynamics research to brain trauma

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 10, 2017 10:00 PM
As many YouTube videos show, striking the top of a liquid-filled bottle can shatter the bottom. Researchers are hoping to use new knowledge of the party trick to help fill a gap in something much more serious: brain research.

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BYU-created mini tool has massive potential

By K.C. Miller
August 30, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars’ atmosphere — and that’s just one of its myriad possible uses.

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Engineering and technology faculty receive top university honors

August 28, 2017 04:38 PM
At this year's University Conference, BYU's most prestigious award went to Randal W. Beard, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Three other Ira A. Fulton College faculty members were also honored.
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BYU engineers earn honor society scholarships

August 15, 2017 04:46 PM
Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, recently named its 271 scholars for the 2017-18 academic year. This year, 10 scholars are Brigham Young University students.
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Professors 3D-print first truly microfluidic "lab on a chip" device

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 14, 2017 10:00 PM
Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers.

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BYU researchers develop method that could produce stronger, more pliable metals

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 07, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU researchers said this paper is the first to attempt to crack the code of the atomic structures that heavily influence grain boundary properties with the computer algorithms of machine learning.

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Alum uses communications skills she learned at BYU to excel in her career

July 20, 2017 05:08 PM
After graduating in April, industrial designer Janae Pettit landed a job at Vivint Smart Home's Innovation Center. Her time at BYU gave her real-world experience and taught her communication skills that have been critical to her career.
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Alum continues to apply skills learned at BYU to job at Ford

July 20, 2017 05:05 PM
Harry Douglass' BYU education taught him a lot of valuable skills. Since receiving his degree in mechanical engineering in 2014, he continues to apply his BYU education to his work at Ford.
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Intellect

BYU engineering in the Dominican Republic: A study in water

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
July 04, 2017 10:00 PM
Helping a country predict water flow leads to a flow of BYU PhDs
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Intellect

Training computers, helping humans

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
May 01, 2017 10:00 PM
Three BYU professors recently received Career Awards: the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty.

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Intellect

BYU students make winter hammocking a warmer reality

By Alec Sears
April 23, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU's 2017 Student Innovator of the Year created a lightweight insulator that covers hammocks for cold-evening camping.

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Announcements

BYU No. 4 in the country for taking research inventions to market

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 21, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU is one of the top five universities in the country for turning research discoveries into new technology, products and companies, according to a report released today.

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Character

Students creating prosthetic sockets for thousands of amputees in Africa

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 19, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU engineering students have teamed with non-profit Engage Now Africa to create a socket for above-knee amputees that fits neatly into prosthetics made available by the international Red Cross.

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Intellect

Engineering students make biking possible for kids with leg-length discrepancies

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 10, 2017 10:00 PM
Mechanical engineering students at BYU have created a special adapter to a bike pedal that allows people with leg-length discrepancies and knee flexibility issues ride smoothly and painlessly.

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Intellect

Build an underwater robot, learn STEM subjects

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 23, 2017 10:00 PM
More than 800 elementary and middle school students descended on the Lehi Legacy Center pool last week, but none of them got in the water.
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Intellect

BYU researchers make flexible glass for tiny medical devices

March 23, 2017 10:00 PM
Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices.

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Intellect

Engineering students use virtual reality to develop aerospace and defense solutions

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 26, 2017 10:00 PM
Students partner with Lockheed Martin to use video game VR for engineering training
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Intellect

BYU engineers built a bulletproof origami shield to protect law enforcement

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 15, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU engineering professors have created an origami-inspired, lightweight bulletproof shield that can protect law enforcement from gunfire.

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Intellect

Team up with innovative greats from centuries past

By Alec Sears
January 12, 2017 10:00 PM
BYU’s new collaborative alternate reality game, designed to attract youth to STEM, lets teens join forces with a mysterious group of innovators to fight the destructive entity known as “S.”

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Announcements

BYU smokestack coming down to make way for new green facility

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
December 05, 2016 10:00 PM
BYU's smokestack, which has been a part of campus since 1958, will be torn down with other parts of the Central Heating Plant starting this week to make way for a new Cogeneration Facility.

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Intellect

BYU research could lead to new method for detecting, managing prostate cancer

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 20, 2016 10:00 PM
Prostate cancer is much easier to cure in its early stages, but can remain undiagnosed because early stages of the disease may not produce symptoms until the tumor is either very large or has invaded other tissues.

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Intellect

BYU Academic VP Receives Top Engineering Award

November 17, 2016 10:00 PM
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has selected BYU Academic Vice President Brent Webb as a recipient of one of the highest honors given in mechanical engineering.

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BYU industrial design students make bar stools cool again

November 16, 2016 10:00 PM
A group of 18 industrial design students took on the challenge of building bar stools in a new way.

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BYU MRI expert at heart of massive brain imaging study

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 09, 2016 10:00 PM
A Brigham Young University MRI expert worked with a UK-based team on the world’s largest health-imaging study, a massive undertaking to scan the brain of more than 100,000 people to find connections with developing diseases.

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Intellect

Solar-panel picnic tables and bus stops? Students starting a 'solar-cell revolution'

October 31, 2016 10:00 PM
A group of BYU engineering students hope to trigger energy change by installing solar cells in public locations you wouldn't think of.

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Professor Michael Scott becomes 3rd at BYU to earn 'Highly Cited' distinction

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 09, 2016 10:00 PM
BYU professor Michael Scott is one of 54 American professors recently named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters.

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Intellect

BYU prof one of four in U.S. invited to Italy quake sites for drone reconnaissance

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 04, 2016 10:00 PM
BYU professor Kevin Franke was one of four U.S. professors invited to a special geotechnical engineering reconnaissance mission to learn how the earthquake impacted ancient and modern infrastructure.

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Intellect

BYU study shows a fourth of Utah HOV lane users are breaking rules

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
July 20, 2016 10:00 PM
Newly published research from BYU civil engineers finds that up to 25 percent of vehicles in Utah’s high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes during rush hour are violating carpool requirements.

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Announcements

Why the Y looks a bit different right now

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
June 14, 2016 10:00 PM
Noticed the Y looks a little odd lately? Don’t worry, you’re not losing your mind.

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Intellect

This desert plant defies gravity by collecting water upside-down with tiny leaf hairs

June 05, 2016 10:00 PM
Syntrichia caninervis (aka seriously awesome desert moss) uses tiny hair-like structures on its leaves to absorb water from the atmosphere until droplets form and flow to the leaf. And sometimes it does it upside-down.

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Announcements

New Dean for BYU College of Engineering and Technology

June 01, 2016 10:00 PM
Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Brent W. Webb announced this week that Michael A. Jensen has been named the new dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering & Technology.
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Intellect

Email Privacy: Finding the Balance Between Secure and Usable

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
May 25, 2016 10:00 PM
When it comes to email security, sending an email is more similar to sending a postcard than a letter in a sealed envelope. A team of BYU computer scientists were honored for their research to make encrypting email easier.

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Announcements

BYU announces groundbreaking for new engineering building

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 25, 2016 10:00 PM
The Brigham Young University Board of Trustees has approved the construction of a new building for the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology. Groundbreaking ceremonies are slated for May 9, 2016.

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BYU to purchase Provo High School property

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 25, 2016 10:00 PM
Brigham Young University today announced the purchase of the Provo High School property.

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Intellect

BYU-created A.I.-powered foosball table goes head to head with humans

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 24, 2016 10:00 PM
Computer engineering students at BYU spent this past semester creating a robotic, vision-controlled foosball table with the objective to beat a human foosball player. The project was a great success. Only problem? The A.I. is a too good.

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Announcements

Final Phase of BYU Campus Drive Redesign Happening This Summer

April 24, 2016 10:00 PM
BYU is continuing the Campus Drive redesign project this summer. At the conclusion of BYU Women's Conference (April 28-29), the university will be improving the intersection at Bulldog Boulevard and Campus Drive (1230 North and 450 East).
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Intellect

Engineering students build adult-sized bike trailer for professor's son with cerebral palsy

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 29, 2016 10:00 PM
A group of mechanical engineering students in the Capstone Program have built an adult-sized, two-in-one bike trailer/jogging stroller for McKay Mitton, an 18 year old with cerebral palsy.

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Intellect

Cybersecurity Madness: BYU team wins regional competition, headed to Elite 8

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 16, 2016 10:00 PM
This month a group of eight BYU IT students blew away their opponents at a regional Cyber Defense Competition in Denver. Their four female students also happened to account for two-thirds of the women in the entire competition.

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Intellect

Tiny origami-inspired devices opening up new possibilities for minimally-invasive surgery

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 02, 2016 10:00 PM
BYU mechanical engineers have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of origami to engineering. Now they're applying their origami skills to a new realm: the human body.

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Intellect

Tupperware designers tap BYU ideas to reach millennials

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 05, 2016 10:00 PM
It's not often you get to present concepts to a global company with more than $2.6 billion in operating revenue, but for BYU industrial design students, it's just part of class.

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Faith

#BYUDevo: Cybersecurity and Spiritual Safety

By Porter Chelson
December 07, 2015 10:00 PM
Professor Bonnie Brinton Anderson delivered the devotional address Tuesday afternoon. She gave five tips on how to improve computer security behavior, and how those tips parallel the ways we can improve our spiritual behavior.

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Intellect

Students creating tiny Bluetooth two-way radio for extreme athletes

By Ashley Lindenau
December 06, 2015 10:00 PM
A group of BYU students has devised an innovative technological device to keep you and your fellow outdoor enthusiasts in touch while in nature: A tiny two-way radio that connects to your phone or headphones via Bluetooth.

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Intellect

BYU researchers speeding up process of making vaccines

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 17, 2015 10:00 PM
Researchers at BYU have devised a system to speed up the process of making life-saving vaccines for new viruses.

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BYU's mentoring factory: Getting undergraduates into research

By Ashley Lindenau
October 14, 2015 10:00 PM
Giving undergraduate students research opportunities is a priority at BYU. Alonzo Cook takes that charge very seriously. Cook, a chemical engineering professor, has 86 undergraduate students working in his lab.

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Intellect

BYU technology tackles climate change by freezing carbon

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 27, 2015 10:00 PM
This August, President Obama announced an ambitious plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. BYU professor Larry Baxter is developing a technology that can actually do it.

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Announcements

BYU Continues with Campus Drive Redesign Project

March 25, 2015 10:00 PM
BYU is continuing the Campus Drive Redesign project this summer. On May 2, 2015, the university will close the through street between Heritage Drive and North Campus Drive permanently as part of its efforts to create a safer, pedestrian-friendly environment and unify the campus.
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Intellect

Professors' super waterproof surfaces cause water to bounce like a ball

May 20, 2014 10:00 PM
Julie Crockett and Dan Maynes have spent decades studying super-hydrophobic surfaces. Some of this research has resulted in commercial products, but the professors are finding characteristics aimed at large-scale solutions for society.

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Intellect

BYU's smart object recognition algorithm doesn't need humans

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 14, 2014 10:00 PM
BYU engineer Dah-Jye Lee has created an algorithm that can accurately identify objects in images or video sequences without human calibration.

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Intellect

Too much texting can disconnect couples, research finds

October 29, 2013 10:00 PM
Couples shouldn’t let their thumbs do the talking when it comes to serious conversations, disagreements or apologies.

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Intellect

BYU engineers conceive disc replacement to treat chronic low back pain

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
June 10, 2012 10:00 PM
BYU researchers have conceived an artificial spinal disc replacement that mimics the natural motion of a healthy human spine. The technology has been licensed to Utah-based Crocker Spinal Technologies.

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Intellect

BYU electrical engineers light up ballroom dancers

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 04, 2012 10:00 PM
Professor Aaron Hawkins and a team of electrical engineering students and faculty have created fully-functioning, eye-catching light suits that flash to music.

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Events

Mark Zuckerberg, Orrin Hatch to talk technology, policy at BYU March 25

March 08, 2011 10:00 PM
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, will be featured in a technology forum discussion Friday, March 25. U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch will also participate in the event, which will be held at 11 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

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Intellect

BYU students develop innovative prosthetic hand for a young mom

April 19, 2010 10:00 PM
BYU engineering students spent their senior year developing a custom prosthetic hand for a young mom who lost her fingers after being stricken with septicemia, a life-threatening blood infection.

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Intellect

New year? New fitness equipment designed by BYU students

January 04, 2010 10:00 PM
Industrial design students commissioned by EB Brands proposed new fitness products at the culmination of their semester-long class project.

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News

Industrial Design Students Develop 3-D Concept Cars for Ford

December 11, 2001 10:00 AM
Taking advantage of million-dollar virtual reality technology, a powerful supercomputer and the same software behind animated hits like "Shrek" and "Monsters, Inc.," Brigham Young University industrial design students have created a variety of 3-D concept car designs for Ford Motor Company as part of their transportation design class.
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