BYU–Hawaii News

Pictured Above: Left to right: Gary Cornia (Dean of BYU Marriott School), Tony Romero (President of BYUMS), Ryan Barber (BYU–Hawaii Student Chapter President), Joel Deceuster (President Elect of BYUMS), Erin Frederick (BYU–Hawaii Student Chapter Faculty Advisor) Read Full Story

The scent of orchids and plumerias blended with the anticipation in the air Friday, December 17, as students, families, and community members made their way to the Cannon Activities Center (CAC) for the 2010 Commencement exercises. Read Full Story

Elder L. Tom Perry, one of the Twelve Apostles for the LDS Church, and Hiu Wai Tsui, a psychology major from Sai Kung, Hong Kong, will be speaking at BYU-Hawaii’s graduation on December 17, 2010. Approximately 235 seniors from as many as 72 nations will be graduating at the commencement exercises that begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Cannon Activities Center. Read Full Story

Each year at Christmas time, BYU–Hawaii centers one devotional on Christ through the display of music. The devotional on Tuesday, December 7 was no exception as it was filled with the sounds of music and spirit of Christmas. Read Full Story

For some professors or department chairs, success means seeing their students perform at a concert; for others, it means watching their students teach English in foreign countries. For Roger Goodwill, the chair of the biology department, success means seeing a picture of crab larva on the cover of the 2011 “Microscopic World” calendar, among other things. Read Full Story

Each year the presidency of the BYU–Hawaii Student Association gives a devotional message to all the students and faculty of BYUH. On November 30, Megan Weaver, Executive Vice President, Chase Carlston, Executive Vice President, and Nick Narayan, President, gave a message entitled “Tough Times Don’t Last, Tough People Do!” Read Full Story

The “taco truck” or Tacos Vicente has become a new favorite place to eat for the residents of Laie and the entire North Shore. Tacos Vicente is an authentic Mexican restaurant-on-wheels founded by Axel Diaz and Ryan Hitz, both students at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. Read Full Story

The Laie Hawaii Temple was rededicated on November 21, 2010, following an extended renovation. Several media sources covered the three-week public open house, a large cultural celebration which included more than 2,000 youth from Hawaii, and the actual rededication. Read Full Story

Sister Lupe Piena, director of International Student Services, invited students and faculty to be “in” the world but not “of” the world, at a weekly devotional on November 16. Read Full Story

From tutoring and peer mediation to rainforest restoration and elementary school gardens, BYU–Hawaii students gain practical experience through a wide variety of service learning projects. In IT 224, practical experience comes in the form of computer repair workshops targeted toward helping community members with their hardware and software challenges. The idea of the workshops came from the combined efforts of Tim Stanley and Paul Lupeitu’u, who now teaches the class. Lupetu’u, Information Security Officer, says that he wanted students to learn in situations “where they will get used to what they will be faced with after they graduate.” The class hosts the workshops two weeks at a time during the semester, and the upcoming workshops will mark the 11th semester for this service learning project. The workshops will take place at BYU–Hawaii by appointment Monday-Wednesday, November 15-17 and November 22-24, 2010. According to Chase Miller, a former IT student, the workshops have been a great help to community members in the past. He relates that at a past workshop, “We were able to recover everything from the hard drive of a community member who assumed that all of her family pictures were lost forever. We extracted all of her data and helped her find an appropriate way to back up her information.” Read Full Story