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Expressed in Our Actions

June 28, 2023 11:30 AM
The little bits that we personally are able to contribute are seen by the Lord. He brings it all together in a great flywheel that begins to spin. I am thankful to be a small part of what the Lord is doing on the earth.
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On Expertise and Humility

June 28, 2023 11:02 AM
Regardless of your chosen career path, a key element of your success will be the expertise you develop and the value that expertise will bring to society. As you develop expertise in your chosen fields, cultivate intellectual humility.
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The Best of the Borens

June 28, 2023 10:27 AM
In 2022, BYU claimed the No. 1 ranking among U.S. universities for the most students receiving awards, ending up with twelve Boren Scholarship winners and a Boren Fellow. Why are so many BYU students receiving this prestigious national foreign-language scholarship?
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Interviews

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Consular Life

June 28, 2023 12:11 PM
Brooke Dean’s expertise involves helping people and solving problems creatively, a skill set that has been invaluable in her role as a U.S. diplomat in Asia.
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Uncertain World

June 29, 2022 09:27 AM
Marren Haneberg is launching a global career in which understanding risk is the plan.
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Best Job in the World

April 29, 2022 02:13 PM
An Interview with Ambassador Deborah K. Jones
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Student Profiles

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Isabella Errigo Awarded Fulbright Research Grant

June 28, 2023 12:26 PM
Isabella Errigo was awarded a prestigious Fulbright research grant during the summer of 2022. She is currently in Ecuador, building on her master’s program research about the impact of land use on aquatic systems.
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A Cultural Ambassador

June 29, 2022 09:40 AM
When Ashlen Lemon, a linguistics major and TESOL minor, heard about the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program in Cambodia, the timing felt providential. At the time, Lemon was in Cambodia studying culture and the Khmer language at the Center for Khmer Studies, and she had heard about the Fulbright program through her classmates there.
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A Stay-at-home Study Abroad

June 29, 2022 09:33 AM
Jo Huey, a Middle East studies/Arabic (MESA) major, will be the first to admit that she took a roundabout path to studying the Middle East and Arabic. While serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ in Malaysia, she was applying to transfer to BYU, but she had minimal time to research different majors. When she noticed MESA listed, it caught her attention.
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