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In conjunction with the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's Peery Film Festival, the BYU Health Science Department was honored to host three Sudanese refugees, at the film showing of "Lost Boys of Sudan."
BYU alumna Emily Brand won the Ballard Center's first Changemaker Film Competition for her short documentary depicting one social innovator's work to combat hunger.
Football training compression shirts, mobile ultrasounds, wearable chairs, worm poop, and bathroom app the stakes were high for students presenting some of the most creative ideas The Big Idea Pitch has ever seen.
Thanks to the Ballard Center, BYU students had the opportunity to utilize their skills in the research and development of a survey that is tackling poverty.
Executive director of the International City/County Management Association named the 2016 Administrator of the Year.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to make a difference, the Ballard Center of Economic Self-Reliance can help you reach your goals.
The big question: How do we figure out financial aid?
As soon as children turn eighteen, they are no longer children in the eyes of US law, and parents generally no longer have access to their medical, academic, and financial information. Talk with your teen before he or she turns eighteen about this shift, emphasizing your trust and confidence in his or her ability to be responsible.
The Romney Institute of Public Management had a new new exhibit featuring its namesake, George W. Romney, installed in the Tanner Building.
The Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance has teamed up with the Laycock Center for Creative Collaboration to help students learn how to solve problems through a creative lens.
Students demonstrated their innovation talents by participating in the Big Idea Pitch competition during Entrepreneurship Week.
The U.S. Dept. of Education awarded BYU a four-year grant of more than $1.1 million to further international business.
The Marriott School recently appointed Bruce Money as the director of the Whitmore Global Management Center.
BYU's best entrepreneurs went head to head at this year's Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition.
Beginning March 17, Ballard Week will offer students the chance to learn from effective social innovators.
Is the next Flappy Bird or Fruit Ninja at BYU? Developers at this year's Mobile App Competition are hoping so.
The work of BYU student interns and the Ballard Center's Jeremi Brewer is featured in a recent Stowaway magazine article.
Students will learn how to better serve others through social innovation at the opening reception for "Do Good Better"
Students will have the chance to learn new ways to eliminate poverty at a book launch for "More than Money" on Jan. 23.
The Romney Institute welcomes new faculty members Brad Owens, Ty Turley, and Chris Silvia to the Marriott School.
The 3rd annual TEDxBYU event and the Social Innovator of the Year Award banquet were a part of the festivities.
The Ballard Center honored Kushal Chakrabarti with the 2013 Social Innovator of the Year Award.
Taking a cue from major corporations, professor Greg Anderson is helping students navigate group projects with the Color Code personality test.
Ask the right questions before partnering with an organization to find the right solutions to world problems.