BYU–Hawaii News

Boud and one of his newest backpacks. He's also been making missionary backpacks for 24 years. Read Full Story

In the first BYU-Hawaii Honors program lecture of 2007, Dr. Paul A. Cox, Executive Director of The Institute for EthnoMedicine, outlined the progress being made on developing a potential anti-AIDS drug from a plant used by traditional Samoan healers and ongoing research on an amino acid linked to significant increases in ALS-type degenerative diseases in Guam and other places. Read Full Story

Memoriam: CCH/BYU-Hawaii Art Professor Emeritus Wylie W. Swapp, 88, passed away early Sunday morning, January 14, 2007, surrounded by his family and a few close friends. Read Full Story

With 330 students graduating from over 40 countries, the fall graduating class of 2006 will be BYU-Hawaii's largest. Nepal, Kiribati, Indonesia, Ghana, Finland,Bolivia, Thailand, Liberia, Romania, and Fiji are just a few countries that will be represented among the 77 that make up BYU-Hawaii's student population. With such diversity in a student body of only 2,400, BYU-Hawaii is one of the nations most flavor-rich melting pots. This is just one element of the campus environment that has provided the experiences shared by three members of the graduating class: Salutatorian, Bashan Abeyasekera, Mason Allred, and Daniel Leeworthy. Read Full Story

Tuesday, January 16, Dr. Paul Alan Cox will present an Honors Academic Forum at 10 a.m. in the Little Theatre on the BYU-Hawaii campus. The forum, sponsored by the University Honors Program will feature the topic “New Medicines from Ancient Knowledge in the Pacific Islands.” Read Full Story

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 11 January 2007  In the first devotional address of 2007 BYU-Hawaii president and Area Authority Seventy Elder Eric B. Shumway drew upon a lesson learned as a teenager from his mother to remind university students, faculty and staff that they are the "children of the light." President Shumway recalled in the January 11 address in the Cannon Activities Center whenever he came home at night that the light from his mother's reading lamp in St. John's, Arizona, signaled she was "awake and waiting, expecting a report on my evening's activities."

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He also asked if they wondered what it would have been like to "live in the days of the Savior" and be on the shores of Galilee," when Jesus "looked into the eyes of four fishermen and spoke the words that would change their lives forever: 'Follow me.' If you had been there, would you have heeded the Savior's call? Perhaps, a more productive question might be: If the Savior were to call to you today would you be just as willing to follow Him?" Read Full Story

After much prayerful consideration, Keitaro and his wife, Shimwa, came to BYU-Hawaii in 2003 from Saitama, Japan, with one child, enough savings to pay tuition, and a great desire to use their talents to bless the families of their homeland. Read Full Story

With a reinforced focus on service learning, BYU-Hawaii social work majors are infusing concepts and skills learned in the classroom by advocating for social justice in communities throughout the world. Read Full Story

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 6 December 2006

In the final BYU-Hawaii School of Business entrepreneurship lecture for 2006, a businessman who has based his success on "changing lives through inspiring family entertainment" outlined how some of his unconventional approaches have led to hundreds of profitable products and media releases.

Seldon O. Young, Co-chairman and CEO of NEST Family Entertainment™ and a member of the BYU-Hawaii/Polynesian Cultural Center Presidents' Leadership Council, started at age 20 to produce and market such products as Animated Bible Stories for Children, Living Scriptures™, The Swan Princess — an original G-rated general release movie, and many others, including several technologically innovative services.

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