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Staring Death in the Face

June 27, 2022 12:46 PM
“I want other people to live like they, too, have five years to live.”
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From War Zone to Classroom

June 08, 2022 02:02 PM
Leslie Edwards: A journalist in Saudi Arabia and an award-winning educator
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A Mother Who Knows

June 08, 2022 12:37 PM
Julie B. Beck, 2014 Alumni Achievement Award winner, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
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Generational Music

June 02, 2022 04:17 PM
Greatly impacted by her grandmother, this alumna uses music to carry Hawaiian culture and the message of aloha around the world
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Learning from Forgeries

May 18, 2022 12:40 PM
Recent anthropology grad Chloe D. Burkey has been hunting for fakes and she's found quite a few.
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From BYU to Ukraine and Back

May 16, 2022 11:08 AM
David and Chelom Leavitt, 2014 Alumni Achievement Award winners, J. Rueben Clark Law School
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Better Late Than Never

March 25, 2022 12:02 PM
From BYU drop-out to a VP at Apple, Greg Porter's unconventional path eventually led him back to BYU
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City of Storms

March 01, 2022 02:15 PM
An alum spends a month mucking and chainsawing in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida
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Fostering Love

February 25, 2022 12:46 PM
Over more than 40 years, Don and Jann Wendelboe Smith have provided a home to some 150 foster children in need of love and safety.
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BYU Through and Through

January 21, 2022 02:55 PM
Kevin J. Worthen, 13th president of Brigham Young University
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Schooling Academia

January 20, 2022 03:59 PM
From struggling elementary school student to successful college graduate, Melissa McDonald discusses the challenges of navigating school with a learning disability.
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The Lord's Timing

January 20, 2022 03:46 PM
“Rather than ask ‘why me?’ I asked ‘why not me?'" Ottley explains, "What made me so special that I should go through life free of these kinds of tribulations?”
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I'll Walk With You

January 20, 2022 03:38 PM
“If you had told me in high school that I would grow up to be an addiction recovery therapist, I probably would have panicked and run away."
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Not Done Learning

January 12, 2022 04:06 PM
"I had a strong confirmation that I hadn’t learned what I needed to learn.”
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Fighting for Religious Freedom in the Supreme Court

January 12, 2022 10:47 AM
2017 University Award Winner, Young Alumni Distinguished Award
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Forever Young

January 11, 2022 02:29 PM
2017 Alumni Achievement Award winner, David O. McKay School of Education
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A Man with a Plan

January 10, 2022 02:58 PM
2017 University Award winner, Distinguished Service
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True Blue

January 07, 2022 04:25 PM
2017 University Award winner, Emeriti Distinguished Service Award
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