BYU–Hawaii News

Drawing similarities from each institution’s purpose to “learn, lead, and build,” Bank of Hawaii and BYU–Hawaii have recently partnered to create the Pacific Banking Scholars Program. The program will supply qualified students from American Samoa, Saipan, and Guam with scholarships, internships, and career opportunities. A reception was held on February 16, at which Bank of Hawaii presented BYU–Hawaii with $100,000 for the program. Read Full Story

Kaminaga and Lydia Kaminaga, BYU–Hawaii alumni from the Marshall Islands, made a decision. “We decided that we should be some of those people that make a difference…If we as Marshallese citizens don’t make changes for the better for our people, who will?” And since graduation in 2008, they have spent their time doing just that. Read Full Story

At a weekly devotional held on Tuesday, February 8, BYU-Hawaii heard from Director of Communications at BYU-Idaho Bruce Hobbs. Brother Hobbs titled his talk, “Behold Here is the Agency of Man.” Read Full Story

The phenomenon of rapid language acquisition in LDS missionaries has been a topic of study in a small corner of applied linguists worldwide for a number of years. Lynne Hansen, a recently-retired BYU–Hawaii linguistics professor, has been especially interested in the topic for decades. Two of her non-LDS colleagues from the Netherlands took a particular interest in the subject after hearing Hansen present at both the International TESOL and American Association for Applied Linguistics conventions. After attending General Conference of the Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002 – coincidentally the same weekend as the conventions – her colleagues, one a representative of John Benjamins, a prestigious academic press, suggested that many people believe LDS missionaries to be excellent language learners and that a book on missionary language acquisition would likely be quite popular among such an audience. Hansen agreed and set to work gathering research for the book. Read Full Story

BYU–Hawaii recently welcomed Michael Aldrich as the new library director for the university. He and his wife, Emma, come from Carrollton, Georgia, and have eight children. Previously, Michael served as an Associate Professor/Instruction Librarian and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of West Georgia. Read Full Story

Dean Douglas D. Anderson from the John M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University addressed BYU-Hawaii at a weekly devotional on January 25 with five lessons for undergraduates. Read Full Story

Thousands gathered in the campus of BYU–Hawaii on Thursday, January 20, 2011, to hear from Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who stopped in Hawaii as part of his visit to the Pacific Area of the Church. Read Full Story

It was 2005 when Brett Lee first came out to BYU-Hawaii to study hospitality and tourism management. And while at BYU-Hawaii he got an internship at the Sales & Marketing department at the Turtle Bay Resort. Read Full Story

The BYU–Hawaii Devotional web page recently received a major facelift, both in form and function in preparation for the 2011 school year. The new site became active over the break for the holidays, and has many new features to enhance its functionality as a resource for lessons, talks, and gospel study. Read Full Story

“You don’t have to own a car to have a car.” Read Full Story