BYU–Hawaii News

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

"You are, in every respect, the Hope of Israel," was Elder David S. Baxter's message to young adults at Brigham Young University–Hawaii's initial summer term devotional this past Tuesday, June 9. While en-route to establish the first Latter-day Saint Stake in the Marshall Islands, Elder Baxter of First Quorum of the Seventy and President of the Pacific Area took time to charge BYU–Hawaii students with the responsibility of the future of families, of nations, and of the church. '…We should be in no doubt that we do live in an age when a battle is raging,' remarked Elder Baxter. 'There is a war between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, good and evil. As today's rising generation the call comes to you, as it has to those who have gone before, "Hope of Israel, rise in might!" ' Elder Tad Callister, Second Counselor in the Pacific Area Presidency, also accompanied Elder Baxter to the Marshall Islands. Read Full Story

David Evans, BYU–Hawaii alumnus and owner of Evans Construction, was recently selected as Pacific Business News 2009 Forty under 40. Read Full Story

LAIE, Hawaii — Elder Steven E. Snow (pictured right) of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reminded 205 Brigham Young University–Hawaii graduates from 34 countries that as leaders of tomorrow, "with your education comes a responsibility. You have not labored these past years simply to insure greater lifetime earnings." Read Full Story

The upcoming devotional speaker on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, will be Elder David S. Baxter of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Elder Baxter, of Stirling, Scotland, served as an Area Seventy from 2002 to 2006 before his call to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 2006. Read Full Story

Ambassador Balazs Bokor, consul general of the Republic of Hungary in Los Angeles (pictured right), came to BYU–Hawaii to speak about the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and was welcomed at the McKay foyer with a traditional Hawaiian chant and leis. Read Full Story

The true nature of a disciple is forgetting one's self and serving our Heavenly Father, explained Elder Ross Cole, Non-denominational Chaplain and Religion Professor at BYU–Hawaii, during his devotional address in the Cannon Activities Center on May 26. Read Full Story