Brigham Young University

Provo, UT
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    247 faculty · 17 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Computer Science39 faculty avg h-index 19.1 #55 of 88 in Computer Science
    Mike D. Jones, Professor h-index 38
    Notable: “Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions” (2019) · 919 citations
    Mike P. Jones, Associate Professor h-index 38
    Notable: “Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions” (2019) · 919 citations
    David Wingate, Associate Professor h-index 38
    Notable: “Statistics with confidence - confidence intervals and statistical guidelines” (1989) · 305 citations
    Kent Seamons, Professor h-index 30
    Notable: “Automated trust negotiation” (2002) · 420 citations
    Mechanical Engineering37 faculty avg h-index 21.1 #47 of 70 in Mechanical Engineering
    Larry L. Howell, Professor h-index 57
    Es on compliant mechanisms, including origami-inspired mechanisms, space mechanisms, microelectromechanical systems, and medical devices. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms and the author of Compliant Mechanisms whi
    Notable: “Accommodating Thickness in Origami-Based Deployable Arrays1” (2013) · 554 citations
    Tim McLain, Professor h-index 41
    Ed on understanding the fundamental hydrodynamics pertinent to underwater manipulation, developing real-time hydrodynamic models, and developing control methods for precise, high-speed underwater manipulation from a hovering vehicle platfor
    Notable: “Coordinated target assignment and intercept for unmanned air vehicles” (2002) · 771 citations
    Matt Allen, Professor h-index 38
    My research team seeks to enable the design and modeling of complicated dynamic systems by creating new methods to characterize them experimentally and to accelerate modeling. Our focus is on systems that are too complicated to model using
    Notable: “An international review of laser Doppler vibrometry: Making light work of vibration measurement” (2016) · 489 citations
    Andrew Ning, Professor h-index 34
    Notable: “Maximization of the annual energy production of wind power plants by optimization of layout and yaw-based wake control” (2016) · 295 citations
    Business Administration33 faculty avg h-index 14.8 #8 of 59 in Business Administration
    Kim Clark, Professor h-index 44
    Notable: “Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms” (1990) · 8,329 citations
    David Benson, Assistant Professor h-index 26
    Notable: “Water Governance in a Comparative Perspective: From IWRM to a 'Nexus' Approach?” (2015) · 289 citations
    Paul Godfrey, Professor / Department Chair h-index 22
    Notable: “The relationship between corporate social responsibility and shareholder value: an empirical test of the risk management hypothesis” (2008) · 3,100 citations
    Shad Morris, Professor h-index 21
    Notable: “Relational Archetypes, Organizational Learning, and Value Creation: Extending the Human Resource Architecture” (2007) · 795 citations
    Government31 faculty avg h-index 10.4 #32 of 100 in Political Science
    Kirk Hawkins, Professor h-index 23
    Es on political organization and populism, and I direct Team Populism, a global scholarly network studying populism's causes and consequences. Projects include the creation of a global populism dataset, experimental research on populism's r
    Notable: “Is Chávez Populist?” (2009) · 646 citations
    Michael Barber, Professor h-index 21
    American politics, Congress, political polarization, political ideology Publications Barber, M., Bolton, A., & Thrower, S. (2019). Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism in Separation of Powers Systems. Legislative Studies Q
    Notable: “Как лучшие системы школьного образования продолжают совершенствоваться (пер. с англ. Н. Микшиной, Е. Шадриной)” (2013) · 353 citations
    Darren Hawkins, Professor h-index 20
    Notable: “More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData” (2011) · 577 citations
    Jeremy Pope, Professor h-index 18
    Notable: “Does Party Trump Ideology? Disentangling Party and Ideology in America” (2018) · 521 citations
    Neuroscience30 faculty avg h-index 17.3 #28 of 41 in Neuroscience
    Michael J. Larson, Professor h-index 59
    The aims of my Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (CCNN) lab and research program center on these cognitive control functions and are four-fold. First, we (myself, students, and collaborators) test hypotheses about behavior
    Notable: “Prevention of Organ Allograft Rejection by a Specific Janus Kinase 3 Inhibitor” (2003) · 670 citations
    Shawn Gale, Professor h-index 33
    My research interests are largely centered in the field of neuropsychology, which is the study of brain-behavior relationships. I utilize clinical and research techniques, including neurocognitive assessment and neuroimaging through our new
    Notable: “Quantitative volumetric analysis of brain MR: normative database spanning 5 decades of life.” (1995) · 457 citations
    Perry Ridge, Associate Professor h-index 29
    Include: studying the relationship of the mitochondrial genome to Alzheimer’s disease, performing family-based studies to identify rare genetic risk factors for disease, determining the functional effects of synonymous mutations in known Al
    Notable: “Rare coding variants in the phospholipase D3 gene confer risk for Alzheimer’s disease” (2013) · 476 citations
    Jeffrey Edwards, Professor h-index 27
    By combining electrophysiology with pharmacology, molecular biology (qPCR), optogenetics, behavioral studies, and immunohistochemistry, Dr. Edwards lab investigates synaptic plasticity—the cellular mechanism that enables our brains to learn
    Notable: “Recycling Endosomes Supply AMPA Receptors for LTP” (2004) · 728 citations
    Economics27 faculty avg h-index 19.1 #44 of 104 in Economics
    Lars J. Lefgren, Professor h-index 32
    Notable: “Remedial Education and Student Achievement: A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis” (2004) · 595 citations
    Jaren C. Pope, Professor h-index 24
    In environmental and urban economics. Much of his work has been focused on using property value information and quasi-experimental hedonic techniques to understand how households value environmental and urban amenities. He also does work
    Notable: “Which hedonic models can we trust to recover the marginal willingness to pay for environmental amenities?” (2010) · 449 citations
    Eric R. Eide, Professor h-index 23
    Es on the economics of education and health economics. In his K-12 research, he has studied how education policies such as school spending and grade retention affect students' educational and labor market outcomes. Professor Eide's higher e
    Notable: “Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Cross-Cohort Evidence on the Effects of College Type on Earnings” (1999) · 560 citations
    Joseph P. Price, Professor h-index 21
    Notable: “Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?” (2018) · 580 citations

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About Brigham Young University. Brigham Young University in Provo, UT reports an overall acceptance rate of 69.2%, an SAT middle 50% of 1260–1440, a class size of 6,100, and a yield of 80.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. LDS Church-affiliated university with extremely low tuition for members. One of the highest yield rates in the nation (over 80%). Honor code governs student conduct.