College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Wanted: Female Physicists

Durfee is the organizer of the BYU GALs (Girls and Light) Program—an annual event held on BYU cam ...

From Stats to Tech: BYU Alum Shares His Success Story

Ezekial Ansah, otherwise known as “Ziggy,” is of course the former BYU football player and curren ...

Uncovering Pieces of the Universe Puzzle

As a PhD student, Moody authored a dissertation exploring the idea that dwarf galaxies might be l ...

BYU to Host Annual Summer Institute of Applied Statistics

Statisticians from around the world are invited to attend the 42nd Annual Summer Institute of App ...

Hottest Known Planet Published in Nature

KELT-9b is an exoplanet, but its dayside temp beats most stars in our galaxy — and comes close to ...

Another Student Emmy Nom — This Time with Accompanying Wedding Bells

Taijitu, the latest BYU animation film to be nominated for a College Television Award (widely ref ...

Open Lab Day Shows Students the Magic of Chemistry

Click. Clink. Clack. In one lab, elementary students crushed spinach leaves with mortars and pest ...

Graduates Receive Counsel: Remember, Turn Outward, Stand Firm

The BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences held its commencement exercises on April 2 ...

A Master, A Teacher, A Leader

Teaching has always had a huge impact on BYU physics professor Duane Merrell—an impact that has b ...

Mosasaur: Died in Cretaceous Period, Found in 1975, Displayed in 2017

Back in his day, Craig Slover walked to school—and found the fossil remains of a thirty-foot-long ...

Modern Tech Meets Ancient Text

Computer programs interpret languages like HTML, XML, Java, PHP with no problem. But ancient hand ...

Izatt-Christensen Lecture: The Greater Good of Mass Spectrometry

Dr. R. Graham Cooks presented the ninth annual Reed M. Izatt and James J. Christensen Lecture at ...

Running to Support Cancer Research

Parents pushing strollers, runners donning short shorts, BYU basketball players dressed as Batman ...

CPMS Student Wins 3MT People’s Choice Award

Biochemistry graduate student Diana Saavedra won the People’s Choice Award for the 3MT university ...

From Chariot to Prius: Society’s Developing Use of Resources

For a thousand years, Hittite chariots rolled through the Middle East, injecting the empire’s inf ...

Astrofest: Where Fun and Science Collide

BYU invites families and students to attend this year’s Astrofest.

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Young Scientists Invited to Open Lab Day

Children are our future, and BYU is looking to make that future as bright as possible by giving y ...

Training Computers, Helping Humans

Three BYU faculty recently received Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Awards, the Nationa ...

Unpredictability and Loss Help BYU Grad Find Greater Joy in Success

On August 30, 2010 Stephen Merrill walked onto BYU’s campus as a newly minted freshman. On April ...

Doing the Math to Handle Heartbreak Hill

BYU Adjunct Statistics Professor Jared Ward had a top-10 finish at Monday’s Boston Marathon ...

Lab on a Chip Designed to Minimize Preterm Births

In the United States alone, a half million babies are born preterm; worldwide, the number is an e ...

BYU Profs Discover Moabosaurus in Utah’s 'Gold Mine'

Move over, honeybee and seagull: it’s time to meet Moabosaurus utahensis, Utah’s newly discovered ...

Legos Don’t Stand a Chance Against Time Reversal

A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the ...

Student-created Budgeting App Will Finally Save Your Budget

You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, ...

BYU Researchers Help Discover Massive Exoplanet

Clement Gaillard spent three or four nights a week operating BYU’s Orson Pratt Observatory telesc ...

WWII Vet, One of the First Computer Science Faculty, Shares Story

Norman Wright has boxes—a lot of boxes. They hold countless records of history about BYU, compute ...

Let Them Eat Pi

Hordes of pie-loving students gathered in front of the Wilkinson Student Center on March 14 to ce ...

2017 Annual Awards Banquet Honors Faculty & Staff Achievements

Faculty and staff were recognized for their outstanding achievement February 3, 2017, at the BYU ...

BYU Gaining National Recognition for Undergraduate Research Support

Archimedes was one of history’s most influential mathematicians, in addition to being an astronom ...

CPMS Alum Cui Tao Wins Presidential Award

Cui Tao’s love for both biology and computer science has led to more than an accomplished researc ...

Measuring a Quintillion Photons at the Speed of Light

An individual could travel around the world more than seven times in a single second if moving at ...

Southern Utah Teacher Fair Connects Schools with Aspiring Teachers

Nationwide teacher shortages have schools eagerly searching for qualified job candidates. Every y ...

Quey Hebrew Lecture: Sustaining a Metallic Society

Over two hundred years ago, the world began to change. Massive, metal machinery replaced human ha ...

World-Renowned Chemist Graham Cooks Will Speak at Izatt-Christensen Lecture

“It’s hard to say who’s the top mass spectrometrist in the world, but it’s probably Graham Cooks, ...

BYU Alum Uncovers “Nessie’s” Bones in Utah

BYU alum Dave Alderks likes to say that everything he needed to know to be a paleontologist he le ...

STEM Fair: A Place of Opportunity for Students

Representatives from several businesses, big and small, filled the Garden Court and Ballroom of t ...

Women in STEM Encourage Students to Have Confidence

Female students filled the Hinckley Center Assembly Hall for the Women’s Career Conversations lun ...

BYU Alum Fights Brain Cancer One Cell at a Time

He didn’t know the first thing about research when he was a freshman at BYU. Now, Dr. Bob Carter ...

Studying Planets Without Looking Through a Telescope

Darin Ragozzine has always been fascinated with space, planets, and stars—but he rarely looks thr ...

Cancer research students are finding more discoveries due to the Rex Lee Run

BYU graduate Michelle Townsend will never forget watching her healthy, tennis-playing grandmother ...

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