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Service Brings Great Returns

By Melissa Een
March 04, 2026
During the 2025 tax season, more than a hundred SOA students from BYU Marriott helped community members file their taxes for free through the VITA lab. These students filed almost 1,000 tax returns, helping to share light as they empathized and advocated for others through the tax return process, says Jon Kerr, the VITA lab faculty advisor.
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Student Experiences

Adding to the Legacy: Entrepreneurship through the Rollins Center

By Kiana Aquino
March 02, 2026
Peyton Jackson and other student entrepreneur find support in building their businesses from Christlike predecessors and an entrepreneurial culture at the BYU Marriott School of Business.
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Student Experiences

IS Students Integrate Skills into Service

By Kiana Aquino
February 26, 2026
From pinning vests to programming websites, information systems (IS) students at the BYU Marriott School of Business worked with a local nonprofit to help people experiencing homelessness stay warm in the winter.
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Student Spotlight

Building a Career on Building Up Others

By Bryan Ross
February 20, 2026
As a senior in high school, Christian Dahneke decided to be a better example to the younger members of his congregation, and he says he’s carried a passion for building people up ever since: “I learned in that really small example that I can be a leader, and that I can help people feel the love of the Savior and grow closer to Him.”
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Student Experiences

Diffusing Light through Finance Mentoring

By Bryan Ross
February 19, 2026
“It’s a beautiful thing,” says Professor of Finance Taylor Nadauld as he describes how finance students at the BYU Marriott School of Business mentor each other.
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Student Experiences

International Business Students Enter to Learn to Go Forth to Serve

By Bryan Ross
February 18, 2026
Through the Wilford A. Cardon International Sponsorship, more than 400 students from more than 50 countries have earned graduate-level education from BYU Marriott. As students enter to learn gospel-centered business principles, they prepare to go forth and serve in their home countries.
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Student Spotlight

Determined to Become

By Elizabeth Walker
February 17, 2026
With the end goal of becoming a lawyer, earning an MPA for John Lidang is less about his career aspirations and more about his desire to become a Christlike leader.
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Student Experiences

Peer-to-Peer Leadership: How Peer Advisors Are Reaching Pre-Business Students

By Elizabeth Walker
February 16, 2026
Peer advisors rely on their own BYU Marriott experiences to help pre-business students seeking light and advice on an individual level.
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School News

A Lifetime of Leadership: General Bruce A. Carlson Honored at Presidential Review

By Megan Charlton
February 13, 2026
During the 2025 Presidential Review, BYU Air Force and Army ROTC programs honored General Bruce A. Carlson with the 2025 Leadership Award. In his address, Carlson encouraged cadets to use their knowledge of gospel principles for peace and perspective during their military service.
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Alumni Spotlight

Aligning Career Goals with Core Values

By Bryan Ross
February 13, 2026
Finance alumnus Andres Aleson had one goal in mind when he pursued a college education at BYU Marriott: “I wanted to become a leader in whatever career I pick, where I can make a positive social impact in people’s lives.”
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Alumni Spotlight

Stories in the Sky

By Shannon Keeley
February 12, 2026
Nate Mortensen, cofounder of drone-show company Open Sky, transforms dark skies into shared experiences—from Stadium of Fire to small-town rodeos.
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Student Spotlight

Student Life 2025

February 12, 2026
The following are students who were highlighted in BYU Marriott's 2025 Annual Report on page 9.
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Alumni Spotlight

Alumni Updates 2025

By Shannon Keeley
February 12, 2026
The following are alumni who were highlighted on page 10 of BYU Marriott's 2025 Annual Report.
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Student Experiences

Mindfulness at BYU Marriott

By Shannon Keeley
February 12, 2026
At BYU Marriott, some of the brightest insights emerge when new questions meet familiar problems—and when students have a seat at the research table.
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Student Experiences

An Express Lane to Experience

By Bryan Ross
February 12, 2026
The clock read 1 a.m., and Nathan Jessop was still wrestling to finish the financial report his internship sponsor was expecting the next day. The thought came: Ask for help. But he resisted.
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Alumni Spotlight

Finding Light in Loss

By Sara Smith Atwood
February 12, 2026
Emma Nisbet began her career amid the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic—an experience she describes as “terrible and amazing and bittersweet.”
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Student Experiences

A Hub of Helping Hands

By Melissa Een
February 12, 2026
A collection of online resources designed and built primarily by BYU Marriott students is helping accounting professionals around the world. During the past decade, BYU’s accounting Hubs—five websites that host hundreds of student-written articles and practical exercises—have racked up more than three million page views.
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Employee Spotlight

Ripple Effect

By Emily Edmonds
February 12, 2026
As a practicing attorney for six years, Taeya Howell used her voice to help others. “I did a lot of negotiating,” she says. Now, as an associate professor of organizational behavior and human resources at BYU Marriott, Howell has swapped courtrooms for classrooms, but her role as an advocate continues to shape her career.
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