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Mentor a Student
Mentoring a student can be incredibly rewarding. Find out how you can get started.
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Attend an Event
Attend lectures, conferences, presentations, or other events to support the college!
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Connect With Us (opens in a new tab)
Reach out to our assistant dean, Jordan Karpowitz, to learn more about how to get involved.
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View recent lectures
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Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture
Karin Wulf Speaks on how genealogy shaped America's earliest systems at 22nd Annual Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture
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Honored Alumni Lecture
Each year, the college selects a graduates with significant professional accomplishments to honor with an Alumni Achievement Award during Homecoming. The honoree delivers a lecture to students, and it is open to the public.
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Martin B. Hickman Outstanding Scholar Lecture
The Hickman Lecture is presented annually by a faculty member who received the Martin B. Hickman Scholar Award for being a distinguished faculty member whose professional contributions to the college emulate excellence.
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Faculty Research
BYU Research Explores Lasting Effects of Military Service on Couples
Two studies co-authored by BYU Professor Jeremy Yorgason earn national recognition for examining marital quality, loneliness, and the challenges military couples face after returning from deployment.
BYU Research Explores the Fallout of Unexpected Family Relationships from Genetic Genealogy
BYU History Professor Joseph Stuart Teams With Genetic Genealogist Diahan Southard to Research How Family Discoveries Affect Latter-day Saints
Merging hearts but not bank accounts — The risks of getting married while staying financially single
Can two people build a life together — a for-better-or-worse, richer-or-poorer, sickness-or-health marriage — if they still act like they’re single?
Behind the Heart Eyes
Before you blame the dating pool, ask yourself what you believe about marriage. A School of Family Life graduate student found that beliefs about marriage at age 19 were tied to relationship stability five years later.