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College of Fine Arts and Communications
The World Tour will feature performances from the Ballroom Dance Company, Living Legends, Vocal Point, Young Ambassadors, and the International Folk Dance Ensemble. (BYU Photo)
BYU performing arts is holding free virtual performances, workshops and devotionals for a week. The week began Apr. 28th and ends May 4th. The livestreams will feature BYU Ballroom Dance Company, Living Legends, Vocal Point, Young Ambassadors and the International Folk Dance Ensemble. There will also be devotionals and testimonies given by some of the dancers as well as workshops on social media. The workshops will teach viewers cultural songs and dances.
April 22, 2021 Brigham Young University Academic Vice President C. Shane Reese announced the appointment of three new deans today, including Richard D. Osguthorpe at the David O. McKay School of Education, Laura Padilla-Walker at the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences and Adam T. Woolley as the dean of Graduate Studies.
David O. McKay School of Education
Richard Osguthorpe was named the dean of the David O. McKay School of Education.
Photo by Kate Kelson
Photo by Kate Kelson
Osguthorpe has been a professor in the Department of Teacher Education and the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling (CITES) at BYU since 2019. He will begin his tenure as dean on July 1.
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Awards were announced for top research posters from disciplines in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences on April 8. (Addie Blacker)
In the undergraduate category, first place awards went to Abigail Rivera in anthropology, Carver Coleman in economics, Casey McClellan Geslison in geography and Jinhee Nelson in history. Neuroscience students Shawna Ibarra, James Bates, Summer Arthur, Gavin Jones, Tanner McVey and Dallin Otteson won first place for their project on reducing anxiety in alcohol withdrawal. Other award recipients included Kelsey Eyre, Kesley Powdell and Heather Walker for political science, Alex Merce and Maryn Rolfson for psychology, Logan J. Marks and Heather H. Kelley in the School of Family Life and Emley Holcombe in sociology.
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Brigham Young University was recognized by the National Science Foundation for preparing more future Ph.D. students in foreign languages and business management than any other American college. (Aaron Hawkins)
Brigham Young University was recognized by the National Science Foundation for preparing more future Ph.D. students in foreign languages and business management than any other American college. Data shared by the foundation also shows that BYU graduates have greater success earning doctorates in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, psychology, education research and other fields of study. Over the past 10 years, 241 BYU alumni completed a Ph.D. in business management and administration. This was 250% more than their closest competitor, the University of Pennsylvania, whose alumni produced 95 Ph.D.s in the same time period. As for foreign languages, BYU is unusually bilingual. Around 65% of BYU students speak more tha