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The founding dean of the newly formed College of Physical and Mathematical Science in 1972 was Jae R. Ballif. [1] In 2024, as part of the 50th celebration of the college, it was rebranded to the name we know today: the College of Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences.
The Harold B. Lee Library and other central buildings with Y Mountain and Kyhv Peak in the background. This list of Brigham Young University buildings catalogs the current and no-longer-existent structures of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Provo, Utah, United States.
On September 15, 2012, BYU Salt Lake Center held their first tailgate party for the BYU vs. Utah rivalry game. Over three hundred people watched the game on an 18-foot blow up screen and ate hotdogs, BYU brownies, and washed them down with free soda provided by BYU Salt Lake. LDS Business College provided hotdogs and chips to the first 200 people.
More than 150 congregations meet on BYU campus each Sunday, where "BYU's campus becomes one of the busiest and largest centers of worship in the world" with about 24,000 persons attending church services on campus. [146] Some 97 percent of male BYU graduates and 32 percent of female graduates have served as Latter-day Saint missionaries. [147]
The college was renamed in 2003 to honor Ira A. Fulton, an Arizona businessman, who donated money to the college. Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering is also named for Fulton. With those donations, the college was able to purchase a supercomputer that is used for research by the college and the BYU campus community.
LGBTQ students and advocates at BYU in Utah slammed the school for requiring all freshmen read a controversial 2021 speech that they say incited violence and hatred against the queer community.
This list of Brigham Young University–Idaho buildings catalogs the current and no-longer-existent structures of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Rexburg, Idaho, United States.
After the building of the Harold B. Lee Library the building was used as a museum by the College of Biology and Agriculture until this was moved to the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. [2] In 1982 the building began its use as the university's testing center.