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President's Council Presents Exemplary Service Awards
Music professor Michael Belnap (on the right in photo to the left) was recognized as the BYU-Hawaii 2007 Teacher of the Year by the President's Council during the annual BYU-Hawaii 'ohana [faculty and staff "family"] meeting held Friday, 24 August, in the McKay Auditorium. Ten university staff members were also recognized for their "exemplary service."
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BYU-Hawaii Contingent Helps Celebrate Tonga LDS Centennial
A contingent of BYU-Hawaii faculty and students, along with about 40 others from the community, this past summer helped celebrate the centennial of the reintroduction of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries in the Kingdom of Tonga. (View a video montage )
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Housing Office Finds New Home
The housing office at BYU-Hawaii has a new place to call home. The new building, which opened this spring, houses a family living and learning resource center, laundry room, and offices.
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IAAP Honors Two Women on BYU-Hawaii Staff
The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) presented awards to two women serving on the BYU-Hawaii staff during their recent annual conference in Tampa, Florida:
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Entrepreneurship Center Director Reports on Progress
BYU-Hawaii's Mark and Laura Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship (CIE) is getting a new home between the Ke Alaka'i office and the Post Office in the Aloha Center, and is moving forward with distance learning and mentoring programs.
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BYU-Hawaii Group Delves into New Zealand Culture, History
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The BYU-Hawaii professors and librarians group are concluding their week of professional development in New Zealand. They arrived here last Thursday with the intention of observing pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary New Zealand culture.
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BYU-Hawaii Group Visits USP's Main Campus in Fiji
SUVA, Fiji — On Tuesday, August 7, the team of 13 BYU-Hawaii history instructors and librarians traveling through Fiji and New Zealand for professional development were wowed by the University of the South Pacific campus here in Fiji's capital.
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Alumni Couple Report on Three-Year Japan Experience
A young couple — both BYU-Hawaii alumni — stopped off in Laie en route home from Wakayama, Japan, to report on their three-year experience working in the Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET):
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Business Professor Heads Hospitality IT Group
Dr. Cary Countryman, a BYU-Hawaii School of Business professor, was recently elected to a three-year term as president of the international Hospitality Information Technology Association. He previously served on the organization's board of directors for five years.
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ROTC Classes Offered Fall Semester on BYU-Hawaii Campus
Rosemarie Howard | University Advancement | 7 August 2007
When Serafina Saui’a came to BYU-Hawaii in 1993 as a freshman from Samoa, she was not thinking about a military career. She wanted to serve a mission, and came to BYU-Hawaii because it was a Church school, and she had an older sister already attending.
But while taking a break from an economics class she ran into an Army recruiter in the hallway. It took six months for him to talk her into enrolling in the ROTC program at University of Hawaii, but at the beginning of her junior year she did enroll.
She had participated in the Junior ROTC program while in high school, learning leadership traits such as how to take charge and to work as part of a team. “It was the most beneficial class I ever took,” said Captain Saui’a. She graduated from BYU-Hawaii in 1997 with a B.S. in Information Systems.
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When Serafina Saui’a came to BYU-Hawaii in 1993 as a freshman from Samoa, she was not thinking about a military career. She wanted to serve a mission, and came to BYU-Hawaii because it was a Church school, and she had an older sister already attending.
But while taking a break from an economics class she ran into an Army recruiter in the hallway. It took six months for him to talk her into enrolling in the ROTC program at University of Hawaii, but at the beginning of her junior year she did enroll.
She had participated in the Junior ROTC program while in high school, learning leadership traits such as how to take charge and to work as part of a team. “It was the most beneficial class I ever took,” said Captain Saui’a. She graduated from BYU-Hawaii in 1997 with a B.S. in Information Systems.
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