BYU–Hawaii News

"We have been going through a process of recruitment,” said BYU–Hawaii’s Social Work Department Chair John Reeves, citing a newly produced brochure as well as marketing attempts toward local high schools. “A large number of students are undecided when they arrive on campus,” he said. “We want to offer social work as a viable option.” (Pictured top: students engrossed in a lecture) Read Full Story

International Cultural Studies-Anthropology and Pacific Island Studies Professor, Doctor Tevita Ka’ili (pictured top) was one of thirty anthropologists from all over the world invited to attend a conference on Indigenous Anthropology at Oxford-Brooks University in Oxford, England, from June 14 through 18. Ka’ili presented a paper that he wrote, titled, ‘Anthropologizing Indigeneity and Indigenizing Anthropology.’ His theory was, “People in the Pacific are engaged in rearranging time and space to create harmony, symmetry and beauty.” Read Full Story

Two Taiwanese families and graduates from BYU–Hawaii, Ben and Shirley Tsai (pictured right with their daughter Kelani), along with Eric and Kate Weng, were featured in the Church News along with other couples in the Church in Taiwan who had served missions and were married in the temple. Read Full Story

During the June 23 devotional, speaker, Martin McDonell (pictured right), Assistant Professor in the Social Work department, shared the three basic principles that "will help each of us 'do' something, to 'act', to enable us to achieve our righteous desire of eternal life with our Father in Heaven." Read Full Story

BYU–Hawaii’s International Business Management (IBM) and Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) majors recently underwent revision that has changed the structure and curriculum of both degrees. This refinement has given the International Business Management major a new face and shortened name—Business Management. The newly dubbed Business Management has six ‘tracks’ or areas of focus within the major. And the Hospitality and Tourism Management major also faced changes—two classes have been deleted from the curriculum; also, some of the basic business classes have been combined with the Business Management degree. (Pictured above: international business students of BYU–Hawaii) Read Full Story

There will be a Community Open House on Tuesday, June 23, at 6:00 p.m. in the Cannon Activities Center. The open house will cover discussion of important themes that emerged at recent community workshops and surveys administered by Envision Lā'ie. These themes include Housing, Jobs, Public Education, Sustainability, Community Design, Transportation, and others. Read Full Story

The ceremonies scheduled for the Iosepa voyaging canoe's return were to begin at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning, May 29, but 9:00 a.m. rolled around and the canoe was nowhere in sight. (Pictured: a growing crowd awaits the Iosepa's docking) Read Full Story

Extensive research fueled by the effects of lip color and lipstick on perceptions of attractiveness in women qualified BYU–Hawaii psychology students for the twenty-first annual Association for Psychological Science convention in San Francisco, California, this past May; this experiment was patterned to a similar version previously done at Harvard University. Coupled with their perception of attractiveness experiment, BYU–Hawaii students also presented on personal sacrifice in genetic and social ingroups and outgroups, utilizing the Harvard Implicit Association Test to accurately measure prejudice. This is the third time BYU–Hawaii students were able to attend this convention, and, noted Dr. Ronald Miller, this convention is where you can find the future scientists of the world. (Attendees pictured above; back row: Thomas Dearden, Dr. Ronald Miller, Lacey Goforth, Alexa Kiene, Yoko Tsui; front row: Shelley Winward, Valeria Jaramillo, Sunny Griffin, Ofa Hafoka, Kazumi Yasutani) Read Full Story

Shenley Puterbaugh | University Relations | 11 June 2009 Read Full Story