Alton Thygerson, a professor at BYU since 1967, is the recipient of the 2000 National Health Information Merit Award presented by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for consumer health information. The series focuses on prevention of injuries and emergency care for treating injuries. The column may be the only such newspaper series in the world. Health columns are prevalent, but injury prevention and first aid columns are not common. Curt Holman, competition director, said the team did not receive anything lower than a first-place mark in the Standard competition held this year in California.
Ballroom dance is a subjective event.
The university's business programs are also ranked among the nation's best, with BYU's undergraduate accounting program ranked sixth in the nation. There are 228 universities in this category, which is divided into four tiers. In the past three years, the university has moved from 109 th to 80 th to 78 th . A women s cross country national championship, two individual national titles in both women s track and men s gymnastics and a revitalized basketball team headlined the 1999-2000 BYU sports season. The Cougars were among the top 20 overall athletic programs in the nation with an 18th place finish in the Sears Cup.