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James Gaskin’s office décor goes way beyond the family photos and desk plants. A homemade jetpack built by his daughters hangs above his desk, and below his window sits a growing model village complete with green hills, an electric train, and a miniature Hogwarts castle.
Christmas festivities are in full swing, and many people—including information system students—are joining in on the holiday cheer in a big way to help children at Primary Children’s Hospital.
BYU information systems students are learning how to predict the future through the IS program’s newest capstone class.
Last May, senior Zac Quist and masters students Cody Pettit and James Dayhuff were three Marriott School information systems students excited to begin their internships together at oil and gas giant ExxonMobil. Four months later, not one, not two, but all three students landed full-time offers at the company’s Houston offices.ExxonMobil’s hiring target has been extremely competitive the last few years due to low gas prices, but the company was impressed by the Marriott School students enough to want them all back after graduating.
Marriott School programs are notorious for having limited enrollment and low acceptance rates. Every summer, hopeful Marriott School applicants anxiously await the news of whether they’ve been accepted into their prospective majors.
Software developers listen up: if you want people to pay attention to your security warnings on their computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times.
As hand-cut steaks sizzle on the grill, Trevor Mecham is up to his elbows in a pile of sweet potato fries. In the oven a sheet of enormous cinnamon rolls–each roughly the size of a dinner plate–awaits a schmear of sugary-sweet frosting.
The Association of Information Systems research rankings have been released and the Marriott School's information systems department has a view from the top.
A small team of Marriott School information systems students came up with big rewards at recent competitions hosted by the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
Information systems students excelled yet again at the Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference.
Tech smarts and a pair of grants from Google and the National Science Foundation are helping BYU professors at the university’s Neurosecurity Lab lift the lid on computer users’ riskiest behaviors. And with a multimillion-dollar brain scanner at their fingertips, the six researchers are turning heads. -->
You’re on the web, responding to an email or watching a YouTube video, when a message pops up on your browser. Do you read it, or do you close the window and get back to what you were doing?
Three BYU students are beefing up the face of agriculture with a new venture that could go from MISM capstone course to cash cow.
A recent national study has recognized the Marriott School's Information Systems Department as 26th in the country for research.
Brigham Young University information systems students earned top marks in their first appearance at the National Collegiate Conference (NCC) in West Lafayette, Ind. Two of the six students from BYU’s Marriott School of Management scored among the top three in individual competitions.
When Rob Smoot earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to shout it from the mountaintops. Smoot celebrated the culmination of his education by leading forty fellow students to Africa's highest point the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro 19,341 feet above the vast African plains.
Beginning Fall 2002, students at Brigham Young University will be able to earn a bachelor's of science degree in information systems. The new major, offered through the Marriott School of Management, will replace the information-systems emphasis in the business-management program.
Many people would be content with running the semifinals of the 100x4 meter relay in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Not Kenneth Andam; he plans to compete again in the 2004 games and bring home a medal. However, his wins aren't only on the track. He is lapping competitors on the business fast track as well. Andam earned a double BS in information systems and economics from BYU in 2000 and is now a graduate student at BYU studying mass communications. His education gives him the technical and analytical skills he needs to compete in the global economy.