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On April 18 and 19, the John A. Widtsoe Foundation hosted President Matthew S. Holland of Utah Valley University (UVU), and President...

Professor John W. Welch has been appointed as the inaugural John A. Widtsoe Foundation Distinguished Scholar. He is the Robert K. Thomas...

Janet Kay Hemming, a seasoned public relations executive and entrepreneur, was appointed Executive Director of the Widtsoe Foundation Aug...

Our second symposium took place on September 24th and featured world-renowned LDS scholars Grant Hardy, Eric Huntsman and Noel Reynolds...

Dr. John A. Widtsoe was a preeminent scholar, university president and LDS Church Apostle, and the first Mormon scholar to be invited to...

The Foundation is currently negotiating with the owners of a property directly across from USC’s soon to be completed $1 billion campus...

The Foundation, in association with the USC Office of Religious Life and the Temple Studies Academy is proud to announce the global...

The Widtsoe Foundation is preparing to be named as the home for the completely revised and redesigned 25-year-old Encyclopedia, which...

In the year since the inaugural event, the Widtsoe Foundation has made tremendous progress in assembling a global set of initiatives to...

The 16-volume BYU New Testament Commentary seeks to illuminate the historical, cultural, linguistic and doctrinal heritage of each book...

Book of Mormon Central is one of the most acclaimed LDS initiatives of the decade. It is an independent group of LDS scholars affiliated...

Dr. Welch is the Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he teaches courses on Joseph Smith and the...

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf delivered the historic inaugural Keynote Speech at the John A. Widtsoe Symposium at USC last April. It was...