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In an effort to encourage competitive skills in a complex labor market, a group of MBA students and professors from the BYU Marriott School of Business recently spent two weeks in Ghana, consulting with businesses and working with Ghanaian BYU-Pathway students through three workshops: creating solid resumes, preparing for job interviews and developing professional networking skills.

The volunteers hosted six events across 15 stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reaching more than 500 participants. In addition, they trained 132 Ghanaian volunteers who are now equipped to share these career-building skills with family members and friends.

For MBA student and Ghana native Emmanuel Obbah, the experience was an opportunity to help others become more confident in becoming self-reliant and being strong disciples of Jesus Christ.

“We try to help everyone that we receive,” Obbah said. “It has really been joyful to be part of this program and to help in my own country.”

https://news.byu.edu/intellect/how-byu-mba-students-pathway-worldwide-are-empower-the-next-generation-in-ghana

When people hear about bird strikes, they usually think of airplane emergencies and grounded flights. While the danger that birds pose to planes and passengers is real, the sheer volume of these collisions goes largely unnoticed and drives a hidden toll on bird populations.

BYU students are monitoring the bird populations in and around the Provo River Delta and Provo airport to understand how management of habitat can help reduce collision risk.

Since 2017, students have been traveling to the river mouth where it flows into Utah Lake three times a week to survey the populations. Trained in their ornithology class on campus, these excursions give students a chance to gain real-world experience analyzing and caring for the wildlife in their community.

“Coming to the delta to enjoy the sights and sounds and enjoy God’s creation helps you have a deeper gratitude for it, and helps you want to protect it,” said wildlife conservation student Julyn Robinson, who just graduated earlier this year.

NOTE: All birds were captured and handled by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources with appropriate permits.

The BYU Singers performed "Let It Be You" at St. Martin parish, Marktoberdorf, Germany, earlier this summer.

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Let it be you who lean above me
On my last day,
Let it be you who shut my eyelids
Forever and aye.
Say a “Goodnight” as you have said it
All of these years,
With the old look, with the old whisper
And without tears.
You will know then all that in silence
You always knew,
Though I have loved, I loved no other
As I loved you.

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“Let it Be You”
Music by Brent Wells
Text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Mike Cottle, recording engineer
Troy Sales, mastering
Zach Collier, gfx

Produced by BYU Video | University Communications
Directed/edited by Adam Sanders
Filmed by Nate Edwards and A. Sanders

Nearly 250 years after printers rushed the Declaration of Independence into existence, BYU adjunct professor Robert Buchert is retracing history one letter, one sheet and one impression at a time.

Known today as the Dunlap Broadside, this first official printing of the Declaration became the urgent, tangible announcement that the colonies had chosen to become a new nation.

Buchert, who has taught BYU’s Intro to Letterpress class for more than two decades, set out to recreate it. The result is a painstaking replica that mirrors not only the Declaration's words but also the paper, typography and printing imperfections of the original. Buchert's re-creation required more than 1,300 hours of research, design, and hand craftsmanship.

Read the story here: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/byu-professor-replicates-first-printed-1776-declaration-of-independence

BYU Nursing faculty and students are improving rescue operations and medical care for millions of Hindu pilgrims along the sacred Char Dham Yatra in the Indian Himalayas. As part of the global Mountain People Project (co-led by Craig Nuttall and Scott Summers), they established the first medically staffed helicopter rescue program in the region.

The initiative focuses on educating and empowering local guides, rescue operations and medical teams, while giving students intercultural experiences to learn and serve. This summer, they are expanding the project to map medical needs along the pilgrimage route.

https://news.byu.edu/intellect/saving-lives-at-14-000-feet-how-byu-nursing-transforms-mountain-rescue-efforts-in-india-and-beyond

Trained to find survivors during earthquakes, APOPO's HeroRATs got a boost from BYU engineering students who helped design localization trackers that can be worn by rats who assist in search and rescue efforts.

With incredible intelligence and a sense of smell that make them ideal collaborators, East African Savanna pouched rats are being trained by the humanitarian organization APOPO to identify landmines, to detect tuberculosis, and now to help find earthquake victims in the rubble of buildings.

After meeting the rats, the students spent weeks developing a system that integrated visual odometry, an inertial measurement unit and machine learning into a Raspberry Pi computer small enough for a rat to carry. The system stores valuable data that the rat is trained to bring back to the rescue team.

https://news.byu.edu/byu-engineering-students-design-new-wearable-tech-for-search-and-rescue-rats-yes-rats

BYU engineering students keep finding ways to squeeze more miles out of a gallon of fuel. For the third time now, BYU has won the Shell Eco Marathon, meaning they’ve built the most fuel-efficient supermileage vehicle in all the land.

This year’s championship vehicle can log 2,145 miles on one gallon of fuel — good enough to get from Utah to New York City on one tiny tank.

“These competitions are an insane amount of work, but a huge learning experience,” said faculty mentor Dale Tree, a professor of mechanical engineering at BYU. “For some students they are career and life changing.”