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1 week ago | byui.edu | Brandon Isle

Two recent graduates from BYU-Idaho’s Communication Department talked about their experiences learning and working at BYU-Idaho for the Fulfilling the Mission podcast. Isabelle Justice and Celeste Christopherson both graduated in 2023. Justice graduated with an emphasis in journalism and a module in visual communication. She was the editor-in-chief for the Scroll newspaper and president of the Journalism Society. She began working as a digital marketing specialist at Porter Pro Media.

1 week ago | byui.edu | Brandon Isle

The real-world experience of running a business for a semester is one opportunity the students in the Marketing Department can receive. The Integrated Business Core is a class where groups of students create and run an actual business for the whole semester. “And so, what IBC does is it kind of puts people in this pressure cooker,” said Matthew Maroon, the chair of the Department of Finance at BYU-Idaho, “IBC kind of becomes the vessel by which these soft skills are taught.

1 week ago | byui.edu | Brandon Isle

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, if somebody found out you worked in supply chain, they wouldn’t have a clue what you were talking about. But now, supply chain management is an important part of any business that ships products. It’s also one of the minors available in BYU-Idaho’s Finance Department. The majors in the Finance Department include Business Analytics, Business Management Operations and Business Finance.

1 month ago | byui.edu | Brandon Isle

As a little girl, Natalia Hepworth hated her curly hair. She thought it was a curse. She says she pressured her mom to relax her hair so she could straighten it. It wasn’t until she was a reporter for EastIdahoNews.com when she was talking to a salon professional about her desire to get her hair to grow longer that she learned she needed to stop heat styling her hair. “And I was like, ‘No, there’s no way I’m going to do that because I’ve for so long strayed away from my curls.

2 months ago | byui.edu | Brandon Isle

It’s Love the Bus Month across the United States this month, which the National Association for Pupil Transportation celebrates to emphasize the importance of school buses and how they’re an essential part of education. The yellow school bus is an icon in communities. In Idaho, there are 90,000 students who use school buses regularly, according to the Student Transportation Department for the Idaho Department of Education.