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Brigham Young Cougars center Aly Khalifa (50) shoots against the UCF Knights at the Marriott Center...
DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer

BYU’s Aly Khalifa heads into March Madness without food or water while observing Ramadan

It is a fast Khalifa is embarking on willingly, yet one that carries with it unusual challenges during the NCAA Tournament.
7 days ago
BYU regularly has honored the "no Sunday" play rule in each tournament it's played in, but it's bei...
Mitch Harper

NCAA committee dropped BYU down to no. 6 seed because of ‘no Sunday’ rule

BYU basketball was the highest-rated 5-seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, yet they ended up with a 6-seed because the "no Sunday" rule.
10 days ago
Brigham Young Cougars center Aly Khalifa (50) celebrates a 3-pointer during the Big 12 conference t...
KSL Sports

‘This Is My Moment:’ Aly Khalifa lifts BYU while fasting at Big 12 Tournament

BYU center Aly Khalifa played through a Big 12 Tournament game during Ramadan.
14 days ago
Images from a new BYU study that shows how different the experience of walking home at night is for...
Allessandra Harris

BYU study shows women feel unsafe walking in the dark

The BYU walking study of 600 college-age women and men found women tend to be more aware of their surroundings than men.
2 months ago
Ticketmaster said Monday that some Taylor Swift fans may have another chance to buy tickets to her ...
Allessandra Harris

BYU enters ‘Swiftie Era’ with new college course

BYU has begun offering a new class focusing on pop icon Taylor Swift's work.
3 months ago
Maleny Heiner, BYU graduate, has been stuck in Mexico since August due to a clerical error made by ...
Olivia Calvert

Clerical error has BYU grad stuck in Mexico

Maleny Heiner, BYU graduate, has been stuck in Mexico since August due to a clerical error made by her attorney and has no idea when she will be able to return
3 months ago
a woman sits with her son at a computer...
Don Brinkerhoff

Tutoring may be a ‘good way’ artificial intelligence can help us

As with most things involving artificial intelligence, AI tutoring would begin with a human evaluating what a student already knows.
4 months ago
Space X Starship launch is a step in the right direction as far as a BYU professor, with dreams of ...
Dale Spaulding

BYU professor hopeful for space project, despite SpaceX failure

Dr. Jani Radebaugh is part of a BYU space project group developing a specially designed quadcopter intended for Saturn's moon, Titan.
4 months ago
FILE - Tablets of ibuprofen are arranged for a photograph in New York on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. Re...
Emma Keddington

BYU researchers testing new PTSD drug

Researchers at BYU are testing a series of drugs that they hope could prevent the effects of PTSD before stressful events even happen.
5 months ago
A BYU professor has been hunting organizational ghosts for over a decade. (Canva)...
Allessandra Harris

BYU professor ghost hunting for organizational ghosts

A BYU professor has been hunting organizational ghosts for over a decade.
5 months ago
The BYU Jerusalem Center. According to yesterday's security update from the BYU Jerusalem Center, a...
Peter Johnston

BYU Jerusalem Center: students and staff are safe

According to yesterday's security update from the BYU Jerusalem Center, all 93 of the center's students and American staff members returned to class safely. 
6 months ago
FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, ...
Allessandra Harris

BYU professors help in national cancer study

One of two BYU professors involved in a national cancer study says their research shows different forms of cancer react with the body's cells differently.
7 months ago
BYU Rocketry Club wins first...
Michael Camit

BYU Rocketry Club places first in International Spaceport America Cup

Down in New Mexico, the BYU Rocketry Club came in first place in the international Spaceport America Cup, despite only competing twice.
9 months ago
academic website, BYU race...
Emma Keddington

BYU nursing students help Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainian refugees in Poland just got help from a group of Brigham Young University nursing students and professors.
10 months ago
a sign on a pole says byu, learn and serve, the school is offering a new machine learning degree...
Dale Spaulding

BYU to offer machine learning degree this fall

BYU students can start signing up for the machine learning degree this fall. One professor says the degree will set students up for success.
10 months ago
a byu basketball game is pictured, byutv is changing due to an espn deal...
Allessandra Harris

The streaming shift from BYUtv to ESPN

BYU is moving to the Big 12 Conference this year, bringing a new partnership between ESPN and BYUtv.
10 months ago
A male suspect was reported possibly stealing articles of women’s clothing at Brigham Young Unive...
Waverly Golden

Possible clothing thief at Brigham Young University

A male suspect was reported possibly stealing articles of women’s clothing at Brigham Young University.
1 year ago
The Points for Protein event will yield 140,000 servings of food.(The Utah Pork Producers)...
Tom Haraldsen

Utah Food Bank scores big with a 35K pound pork donation

The Utah Food Bank scores big with 35,000 pounds of pork donations. The 'Points for Pork' program will help feed Utah families.
1 year ago
BYU rover competition...
Ben McGonnell

BYU Men’s volleyball team wins against Ohio State

The BYU Cougars men's volleyball team faced off against the 15th Ohio State Buckeyes in a closely contested match.
1 year ago
A man is being held without bail after police say he forcibly kissed a Brigham Young University stu...
Kaitlyn Bancroft

Man arrested for following and forcibly kissing BYU student, police say

Johnny John Joe, 56, was booked into the Utah County Jail Saturday for investigation of forcible sexual abuse, a first-degree felony.
1 year ago
lake restoration...
Mark Jones

BYU study: Great Salt Lake could dry up in 5 years if changes aren’t made

A study co-authored by a BYU professor says the Great Salt Lake could be gone in five years unless changes are made.
1 year ago
The Brigham Young University campus in Provo is pictured on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Deseret News)...
Heather McShane

First Black student at BYU walked the halls over eight decades ago

The first black student at BYU was actually a master's student named Norman Wilson studying agricultural economics.
1 year ago
Researchers at the BYU and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute used samples from one cap...
Waverly Golden

Researchers at BYU successfully sequenced the entire genome of leopard species going extinct

Researchers at the BYU and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute used samples from one captive mainland clouded leopard and one wild Sunda clouded leopard to successfully sequence the entire genome of leopard species.
1 year ago
video game...
Elizabeth Weiler

BYU students win international award for video game

The interactive computer game in question is titled Liminus: The Silent Guard, it was initially created as a capstone project for nearly 50 students.
1 year ago