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How do I find purpose? How do we cure cancer? How can I best learn from my mistakes? These were just a few of the hard questions addressed at TEDxBYU 2017.
As a homeless college student, Sam Cobbs was humiliated while he stood in line to get food stamps. Welfare services said he would need to drop out of college if he wanted their aid, but he knew that college was his only chance at escaping poverty.
BYU professor Linda Reynolds sees the skills she teaches as more than a mixture of aesthetics, images, symbols, and words her design classes teach students to do good better.
The Romney Institute recently recognized David Williams for his outstanding work in the nonprofit sector.
The Global Management Center hosted teens from around the state to help students combine their knowledge of language and global business.
Jackson, Wyoming—the gateway to the grand Tetons—is almost always bustling. Snow-capped peaks and expansive horizons draw crowds to this tiny outpost in the American west.
Now that Luke Mocke is linked up with LinkedIn, he is finding ways to mentor students and help them land their dream jobs too.
Reducing the compensation of a CEO by half is not an easy decision. But for board members with shareholders to consider, tough decisions like these are sometimes necessary.
Strategy and economics alum Ryan Harrison talks Netflix and marketing tricks and may throw in a word or two in Dutch.
What a BYU Marriott finance alum is doing to maximize his personal success while still paying it forward.
Jennifer Rockwood stepped onto BYU’s South Field and gazed numbly across the green turf. “What have I gotten myself into?” she recalls thinking. “Can I really do this?”
After five missionaries from the Madagascar Antananarivo Mission returned home, they felt compelled to give back to the people they had lived and worked with for two years.
Two BYU Marriott teams hit last-minute curveballs out of the park at an HR case competition.
Paper, tape, scissors, pipe cleaners, and cookies. These were some of the items used during the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance's new family home evening event.
A BYU MBA team's solutions for a big name company were rewarded at a recent ethics case competition.
The annual competition saw Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic teams from five schools but language barriers were not an issue for these competitors-turned-friends.
Kristin Yee landed her dream job, successfully working her artistic talents at Disney. But after 13 years, an impression directed her to a new line of work at a very different organization.
Alyssa Flake no longer sings a cappella with BYU's renowned female musical group, but her TR internship at a female treatment center was nothing short of noteworthy.
The AIS Club held BYU's first ever service hackathon, a competition for tech-savvy students who are programmed to serve.
As a young man, alum Cameron Cozzens never planned to serve in the military; he didn’t even come from a military family. But one suggestion from a high school counselor to look into the military changed his mind—and from there, the BYU Army ROTC changed the course of his life, leading him on a path of leadership.
Regardless of students backgrounds or majors, the Ballard Center's Impact Investing Program teaches them the fundamentals of determining which companies will be financially successful and create real social change.
As part of a new series, the Ballard Center is giving students the opportunity to ask alumni questions and career advice. This piece features Jeff Roberts of Self-Reliance Services/PEF.
Miranda Dennett breathed fresh air into the corporate entertainment world of Las Vegas via her undergraduate internship last summer.
Entrepreneurship student Morgan Glessing and his team have a plan to (literally) open the doors of possibilities at every college campus nationwide.