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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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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):

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.

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.

The U.S. Olympic Committee has selected Trenson Akana, a 5' 10" guard on the BYU-Hawaii men's basketball team, as one of 30 minority students from across the country for its FLAME program — Finding Leaders Among Minorities Everywhere .

School of Business Professor Dr. James R. Bradshaw is retiring at the end of Summer Term after teaching at BYU-Hawaii for the past 38 years. Along with Japanese language professor Katsuhiro Kajiyama, he is currently the most senior fulltime faculty member at the university.

“Why would Navaho’s fight for a country that tried to destroy them?” This question came from an audience member to Roger Willie, during a forum held Wednesday, 11 July, in the Aloha Center Mall on the BYU-Hawaii campus.

The results of a week filled with rich cultural experiences, intense rehearsals, and lasting friendships will culminate Saturday, 14 July, in a free concert offered by the Pacific Rim Children’s Chorus Festival . The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Cannon Activities Center (CAC) on the BYU-Hawaii campus. (watch video )

Two BYU-Hawaii School of Computing students — William Davis from Guam and Fabricio Correa Duarte (upper left) from Curitiba, Brazil — recently distinguished themselves by winning the Microsoft ImagineCup software design competition in Hawaii on just one one week's notice, and then advanced to the regional competition in San Jose, California. From there, Duarte went on to the competition's national finals in Redmond, Washington.

Rosemarie Howard | University Advancement | 18 June 2007

July 12 to 18, July 15 to 21, and July 27 to August 9, high and junior high students from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan will come to Brigham Young University Hawaii to participate in the Aloha ESL program administered by the Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach (CITO).  In the past eight years, the CITO program has hosted over 2, 200 students.

In Hawaii’s unique setting, the 9 to 18-year-old students seek to increase their English proficiency through intensive classroom study. Each morning during the week long program, qualified instructors use a variety of teaching methods that include the TALL (Technology Assisted Language Learning) English Program.

During the afternoons, they will enjoy a variety of outdoor activities that include visiting Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, the North Shore, Waikiki, and the Polynesian Cultural Center.