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Joey Chen, a senior from BYU Marriott's GSCM program, helped conduct research in China this last summer. Although just an undergrad, she held her own alongside PhD candidates.
Will Pham never meant to get involved in the Ballard Center. A minor mistake in class schedule put him in the Do Good. Better course--and changed his college career.
When the BYU Marriott Inclusion Committee gathered data about students’ experiences in the business school, the committee discovered many individuals desired further guidelines on developing inclusive behavior that they could carry with them into the workplace.
This past summer, cadets from BYU and UVU in Air Force ROTC Detachment 855 gave the city of Orem a little taste of what flying an F-16 military jet is like.
As a member of the BYU gymnastics team, a student in BYU Marriott's global supply chain management (GSCM) program, and a doTERRA intern, Angel Zhong proves that hard work and dedication pay off.
The Social Impact Professional Association, or SIPA for short, provides students pursuing a career in social impact with career services to help them land their dream job.
I've always had a desire to help those around me, but with such a taxing and time-consuming major, the thought of spending any of my extra hours outside of the library never seemed realistic or beneficial until I got involved at the Ballard Center.
For the second year in a row, the Society for Human Resource Management awarded BYU's SHRM chapter with the Student Chapter Merit Award, signifying the chapter's excellence and achievements during the 2018-19 academic year.
I am a philosophy major at BYU but an entrepreneur at heart. While in college, I started my career in real-estate investing, learning how to flip houses and lease vacation rentals. It was both exhilarating and exhausting.
Just as my life was changed when I was nine years old, I now have the remarkable opportunity to take part in changing others lives who seek to improve the society in which they live.
Kickboxing, kayaking, and rock climbing are challenging activities, and for those with physical or mental disabilities, they can seem nearly impossible but the No Barriers Summit attendees would tell you otherwise.
The Y-Prize: Social Innovation Solution competition is an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students at BYU to address a real-life problem that a current business faces by proposing a solution to be implemented by the company.
Through my work with the Social Venture Academy, my perspective on social issues has changed, and it has created a pattern of learning and growth within my life.
BYU Marriott's Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology is helping entrepreneurs through its International Business Model Competition.
Social Innovation Projects (SIP) is an on-campus internship program that gives students an opportunity to make a real-life impact in their local communities while receiving teamwork experience. Four students—Emily Meadows, an environmental science major from Alpine, Utah; Brad Allison, a chemical engineering major from Mesa, Arizona; Becky Fuller, a chemical engineering major from Denver; and Nathan Guzman, an economics major from Washington, DC—signed up for SIP and were paired together on a team during Fall 2018 semester. Their team was given the project of working on carbon credits accountability with Greening Youth, a brand-new SIP class partner.
From developing business relationships in France to watching a sunrise over a mountain in Peru, the Global Management Center foreign exchange programs teach what a classroom can't.
The Nonprofit Management Student Association (NMSA) was incorporated into the Ballard Center during the 2018-2019 academic year. The NMSA has grown from its infancy in 2009 to a total of seventeen board members and seventy-eight student members.
Eleven first-year MBA candidates were recognized from the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University as Eccles Scholars, an award presented by the school's Whitmore Global Management Center.
Air Force Detachment 855's annual military parade was held this spring as one hundred sixty cadets drilled across the Richards Building fields.
The Ballard Center's Social Venture Academy works to solve social issues across the globe, and recent participants seem to be setting a new trend in social entrepreneurship women helping women.
Juniors from the BYU Marriott ROTC program who are now attending Advanced Camp, a thirty-one-day training event held at Fort Knox, Kentucky, were given a practice during field training conducted in St. George, Utah.
Undergraduates typically don't have to worry about fulfilling a contract with the Department of Defense managing a drone company's mistakes. But that's exactly what two BYU Marriott students were tasked with doing.
Standing on Utah Beach, each senior cadet told the story of a soldier or civilian involved in the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Cadets told these stories in the first person while looking at the battlefield on which Americans fought.
BYU Marriott sent five students to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, for the Venture Capital and Investment Competition. For the second year in a row, BYU came out on top, winning both the regional and national competitions.