BYU–Hawaii News

Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 6 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii's Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach is hosting this week's 9th annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education—the first time the conference is being held outside of Asia.

The conference began today and will run until Thursday, June 9. For four days, BYU-Hawaii is hosting close to 300 of the brightest minds in instructional technology out of Asia and parts of the United States.

Organized by the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education, the conference is traditionally held at prestigious universities in major Chinese metropolises, such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Nanjing and Singapore.

The unprecedented move to Hawaii symbolizes the society's burgeoning global interests and increasing willingness to interface with the Western world.


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Andrew Miller | University Advancement | 1 June 2005 BYU-Hawaii's chapter of SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) ranked among the top 40 in the nation at the 2005 SIFE USA National Exposition held in Kansas City last week.

SIFE is a global, non-profit organization with student chapters on over 1800 university campuses in more than 40 countries. Each team is given the charge to teach principles of free enterprise—including market economics, entrepreneurship, personal and financial success, and business ethics—through educational outreach projects that better themselves, their communities and their countries. More on SIFE.


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Sandra Rogers, VP of International Students at BYU in Provo, Utah, counseled the BYU-Hawaii 'ohana on our individual responsibilities as members of the Church to participate in the rolling forth of the Kingdom of God to fill the earth. Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii Biology Department chairman Dr. Roger Goodwill and several students recently returned from Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands where they initiated radio telemetry and DNA study fieldwork on Pacific Golden-Plover, a migratory shorebird known as kolea in Hawaii. Read Full Story

President Shumway recently returned from a highly successful 16-day goodwill tour to the South Pacific—including New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Kiribati—as part of this year's Jubilee celebration. Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii women's tennis team head coach Dr. David Porter was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's NCAA II national "coach of the year" following the Lady Seasiders' second-place finish in the national championship competition. Coach Porter's latest honor marks the fifth time he has been national coach of the year in either the NAIA or the NCAA II. Read Full Story

The top-ranked three-time defending NCAA II championship BYU-Hawaii women's tennis team lost their bid to four-peat to Armstrong Atlantic State on May 14 in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and also broke their 130 consecutive dual match win streak. Read more... Read Full Story

"I have tried to sculpt this talk with words, and it hasn't been easy; I wish it could be done in clay instead," BYU-Hawaii sculpture professor Viliami told the audience at the May 12 devotional in introducing his speech, "I have dreamed a dream." Read Full Story

BYU-Hawaii women's tennis player Adrienn Hegedus was named ITA NCAA DivisionII national Senior Player of the Year, and head tennis coach Dr. David Porterwas named the ITA West Region Coach of the Year, among other BYUH honors collectedat the annual NCAA II tournament awards banquet on May 10 in Altamonte Springs,Florida. Read Full Story

In honor of Mother's Day, BYU-Hawaii accounting professor Glade Tew and his wife, Donnette — who recently completed a one-year term as American Mothers Inc. Hawaii Young Mother of the Year — jointly delivered the May 5th university devotional in which they described motherhood as the "noblest calling in the world." Read Full Story