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David O. Mckay Lectures
David O. McKay Lecture by Tēvita O. Kaʻili| February 13, 2024

"Today, I extend a personal invitation to you to reflect on the cosmogony of your society and consider how it shapes your relationship with the environment. You might wonder, what exactly is a cosmogony? A cosmogony is the creation story of a people."
David O. Mckay Lecture by Yifen Beus | February 14, 2023

"Following this wisdom, I hope we will become conscientious readers and can “be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine."
David O. Mckay Lecture by Stephen Hancock | February 8, 2022

"Helping students learn to learn is, I believe, the heart of the “Improve” section of the BYUH learning framework. No, we cannot fix every problem, and it is not always good for the other that we fix her or his problems. But my ethical duty is defined by the confrontation with the actual needs of those before me. I am the one with the resources (or not) to respond to the call."
The social and political tumult we’ve witnessed in the United States and around the world this century has people questioning what is happening. Some see a parallel between our Internet age and the era following the Gutenberg Press. Both inventions made it cheap and easy to spread opinions that challenge the common ideas that bind a society together and make cooperation and community possible (Gurri 2018). It is good that ideas are challenged, and oppressive ideas give way to better things. But what is “better”?
I chose to revisit a theme that has permeated my writings for over two decades—my personal expectations for the not-too-distant future of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
James B. Tueller
Professor of History

February 11, 2019
Jim Lee
Dean of the College of Business, Computing, and Government

February 13, 2018
Dan Stout
International Cultural Studies Faculty

March 27, 2017
Ellen Bunker
Associate Professor, English Language Teaching and Learning Department

February 10, 2016
Roger Goodwill
Professor of Biology

February 11, 2015
Susan Dale Barton
Professor of Mathematics

February 12, 2014
Phillip McArthur
Dean, College of Language, Culture, and Arts

February 06, 2013
Don Colton
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences

February 08, 2012
Dr. Jeff Burroughs
Professor of Psychology

February 10, 2011
Dr. Randal Allred
Associate Professor of English

February 11, 2008
Dr. David T. Porter
Professor, Exercise and Sports Science

February 13, 2007
Mark James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition

February 06, 2006
Claudia Beth Haynes
Professor of Economics

February 17, 2005
Robert N. Winget
Professor of Biology

February 11, 2004
Riley Moffat
Senior Librarian

February 12, 2003
Ronald S. Jackson
Professor of Psychology

February 13, 2002
Gale Ward
Professor of English

February 09, 2000
Randy L. Day
Lecturer

February 11, 1998
Bruce W. Kimsey
David O. McKay Lecturer

February 12, 1997
Robert S. Wood
Dean, Center for Naval Warfare Studies
March 21, 1996
Dale B. Robertson
David O. McKay Lecturer

February 14, 1996
Roy Winstead
David O. McKay Lecturer

February 08, 1995