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Alumni Experiences Center News 2017 2010–2014
Honoree Brett Swigert shared the importance of service before self in his acceptance speech.
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.
Alumni LaDon Linde and Justin Oldroyd have always enjoyed a fast-paced work environment. Prior to their current positions, they both spent time at global strategy consulting firms, and Linde played a key role in a San Francisco-based tech company’s growth from twenty to two-hundred employees. Though their jobs were good, both men felt the need for something more—to use their knowledge and abilities for a work close to their hearts.
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.
“Making a difference.” “Making the world a better place.” Use these phrases enough and they start sounding stale. But backed by real results, the work of MPA alumni is proving the skills developed within the walls of the Marriott School can make meaningful—and real—change.
The Global Management Center hosted teens from around the state to help students combine their knowledge of language and global business.
Within a two-year span, five information systems classmates left BYU to start their careers—only to find themselves working side-by-side once again.
The Romney Institute honored Ruth Ann Jefferies, a property tax specialist, for her career success and community service.
The Romney Institute of Public Management had a new new exhibit featuring its namesake, George W. Romney, installed in the Tanner Building.
A sleek product deserves accessories that are equally suave. Blending mechanical prowess with beautiful materials is alum Eric Rea's forte.
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.
This past fall the Romney Institute honored the Spanish Fork city manager, with its 2013 Wright Distinguished Alumni Award.
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.