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Brigham

American  
[brig-uhm] / ˈbrɪg əm /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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The research team also included Matthew J. Baker, associate professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, and Jordan Smith, assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Brigham Young University forward AJ Dybantsa was the highest NIL earner in all of college basketball this season.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

Harvard professor Joanna Aizenberg’s lab just received seed funding, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mass General Brigham healthcare system, to use AI to help patients with a diminished sense of smell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The research was conducted by a team at Mass General Brigham in collaboration with researchers from the University of California San Diego and was published on January 7 in Nature Microbiology.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Jim and Farmer were determined to keep funding the effort, even if that meant convincing the Brigham pharmacy to “loan” them the expensive second-line antibiotics whenever they came to Boston.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French