President Eyring will speak at BYU devotional today

President Henry B. Eyring, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will offer a devotional address today at 11:05 (MST) in the Marriott Center at Brigham Young University.

The devotional will be presented live on BYU Television, KBYU TV, KBYU FM and byubroadcasting.org. For rebroadcast information, visit byubroadcasting.org.

This will be President Eyring's first devotional address at BYU since being sustained as second counselor in the First Presidency during the 177th Semiannual General Conference in October 2007. He has been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles since April 1, 1995. President Eyring has also served in the First Quorum of the Seventy, the Presiding Bishopric and various other callings, including Commissioner of Church Education.

Professionally, President Eyring has long been involved in science and education. He holds a bachelors degree in physics from the University of Utah and completed his masters and doctorate in business administration at Harvard Graduate School of Business in Cambridge, Mass.

Soon after, he became an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, Calif. He also served as head of Ricks College — now BYU-Idaho — from 1972 to 1977.