BYU–Hawaii News

Visiting BYU Professor Victor L. Ludlow took about 80 members and guests of the BYU-Hawaii Women's Organization luncheon meeting through a Jewish Passover seder on April 21 in the Aloha Center and explained the symbolic significance of the traditional meal to the group. Read Full Story

Staff | University Advancement | 21 April 2006 Laie, HI - Brigham Young University Hawaii has named former Hawaii State High School "Coach of the Year" Wendy Anae as the new head coach for its fledgling women's basketball team. Anae will have the task of building a program from the ground up as BYU-Hawaii adds women's basketball to its athletic program for the 2006-07 academic year.

Anae coached this past season at Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, where she took her young team to the Final Four in the Utah State High School Girl's Tournament. However, she is no stranger to Laie and the North Shore, having coached the Kahuku Red Raiders for three years from 2003-05 after serving as an assistant coach at Kahuku for four years previous to being named head coach.

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Brigham Young University Hawaii art student Kisslan Chan was one of only 15 people to receive the Purchase Award, the top prize given at the Seventh InternationalArt Competition held in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 24th, 2006. More than 900submissions were entered into the competition, an event sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held at the Museum of Church History and Art. Read Full Story

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Jorjana Brown delivered the final BYU-Hawaii entrepreneurship lecture of the school year April 11 on how she has grown her scrapbooking business from a small retail start-up into a manufacturing company that's part of a multibillion-dollar international industry. Read Full Story

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 28 March 2006 Dr. Keith Roberts, BYU-Hawaii Vice President of Academics, recently announced that Dr. Clayton Hubner will succeed Dr. Brent Wilson as dean of the University's School of Business, effective August 1, 2006.

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BYU-Hawaii junior history major Spencer McBride's research paper on "The Catholic Conquest of California" won the "best undergraduate" prize on March 18, 2006, during the annual conference of the five major Hawaii universities in the regional chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. Read Full Story

Bill Spencer, president of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, compared entrepreneurship in the 21st century to "an extreme sport without risk of bodily harm." Read Full Story

One of the world's foremost scholars on the Dead Sea Scrolls and early Judaism concluded the lecture series held in conjunction with the special traveling exhibit on the ancient texts at the Laie Temple Visitors Center with presentations on March 17 and 20, 2006. Read Full Story

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 17 March 2006 When Beth Parker Uale ('85) first came to BYU-Hawaii her primary goal was to get her "MRS. degree." Later, when graduation became a priority, it took her an additional four years to finish her final year of studies. She since spent another seven years in graduate school. Consequently, Uale encouraged today's BYU-Hawaii students to make the most of the educational experiences while they're here.

"Throughout the many years of schooling I have learned that there are certain things that will help to make the journey more efficient and more effective," she said, offering a few suggestions to avoid the roadblocks to reaching educational goals:

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