Brigham Young University
Provo, UT·Private
4 labs on PI Pages. It spends $158M a year on research and awards 114 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 39,598: 36,407 undergraduates, 3,191 graduate
- Faculty
- 1,308 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Nathan Usevitch
Engineering
Develop and experimentally test models of the energy a flywheel-powered jumping robot can store, based on flywheel shape, size, material, motor power, surrounding fluid and payload.
Benjamin Terry
Biomedical Engineering
Design and fabricate a tethered capsule optimized for prolonged retention in the gastrointestinal tract, using a biocompatible, degradable tether and tethered odometry to track position.
Matthew Bailey
Genetics
Identify and assess how known cancer predisposition (germline) mutations from curated databases appear in the All of Us whole-genome cohort, and quantify their impact on cancer occurrence.
Arminda Suli
Neuroscience
Track in living zebrafish how the redox state (balance of oxidation and reduction) of different cell compartments in optic tectum neurons changes during normal development and after valproic acid (VPA) treatment.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.