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Richard W. Clark — an attorney from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and a member the President's Advisory Council for the BYU-Hawaii School of Business — fanned interest in this week's upcoming entrepreneurship conference by sharing lessons he's learned from other entrepreneurs and from starting his own businesses.

Two major speakers, 20 free panel discussions on a wide range of topics and over 50 visiting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, who will judge the business plan competition finalists, highlight the eighth annual Mark and Laura Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship conference at BYU-Hawaii from February 8-10, 2006. The theme of this year's conference, most of which is free and open to the public, is "Entrepreneurship: Empowering Students Worldwide."

Christopher Krey | University Advancement | 31 January 2006Brigham Young University Hawaii is co-hosting its first-ever International Conference of Egyptology on February 1-4, 2006. The conference, entitled Evolving Egypt: Innovation, Appropriation, and Reinterpretation in Ancient Egypt, brings scholars and students of Egyptology from all around the world together to discuss issues of ancient Egypt.

Staff | University Advancement | 31 January 2006 The BYU-Hawaii Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach (CITO) is hosting an eBusiness conference to provide real-world "ability" training to students and community members alike. The conference will teach participants pragmatic skills, such as Web site creation, on-line market research, converting traffic into buyers, and more.

“The conference aims to offer a unique platform for participants,” said Richie Norton, business development consultant and organizer of the eBusiness conference. “It will enable them to make significant contributions in the workplace and launch themselves into successful, innovative careers.”

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As a special traveling exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls opened in the Laie Temple Visitors Center on January 19, BYU-Hawaii students, faculty, staff and visitors filled the McKay Auditorium to capacity to hear Dr. Donald W. Parry, BYU Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and a member of an international team of translators working on the 2,000-year-old records, explain their significance to Latter-day Saints.

Sixteen students from Calvin College left behind the freezing winds of GrandRapids, Michigan to attend class in tropical Hawaii—and the weather doesn’t seem to be bothering them.

Justin Smith | University Advancement | 20 January 2006 From the shores of the Dead Sea comes an exhibit of renowned historical significance that has arrived on the Hawaiian Islands for display at the Hawaii Temple Visitor’s Center through March 2006.

The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit was flown to Oahu from Europe, where it had toured England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, and a host of other countries. It contains pieces of authentic pottery, a collection of certified scroll replicas (the originals remain secured in the Middle East), a Roman soldier’s sword, a model of the city Qumran (where the scrolls originated), a model of metal plates, literature, paintings, and pictures of the caves where the scrolls were discovered, and many other items.

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Media Relations | University Advancement | 20 December 2005 More than 250 graduates from over 30 different countries walked during BYU-Hawaii's December 2005 Commencement on Saturday—but there was only one from Russia. Valedictorian Olga Bogach Moulton, an international business management major from Far Eastern Russia, addressed her fellow graduates and thanked the faculty who provided the many teaching moments she experienced at the university.

"Teaching is truly a higher calling," Moulton said, as she drew a comparison between the teaching efforts of her professors with the master teaching of the Savior. "Indeed, the Savior of the world used His whole life as a teaching purpose that He might show the world how to obtain happiness in this life and in the life to come."

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 19 December 2005 In his December 17 commencement address to over 250 BYU-Hawaii graduates, Elder Boyd K. Packer, Acting President of The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, used some of his own experiences in the Pacific 60 years ago to emphasize the increasing need for personal revelation in modern times.

Elder Packer, who was ordained an Apostle on April 9, 1970, told the graduates he was serving in the military when he originally stopped in Laie 60 years ago to see the temple. The next day in Honolulu he learned World War II had ended and hoped that he would soon be going home, "but that was not to be."

President Eric B. Shumway used his remarks at the December 15 graduation luau and a thank you letter from former university president Alton Wade to comment on BYU-Hawaii's year-long Golden Jubilee celebration, which drew to a close with the December 17 commencement.

Staff | University Advancement | 16 December 2005 President Boyd K. Packer, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will preside and speak at BYU-Hawaii's December 2005 Commencement Exercises Saturday, Dec. 17, at 9 a.m. in the Cannon Activities Center.

Other special guests in attendance will include state and government officials along with many church leaders: Elder W. Rolfe Kerr, Commissioner of the Church Education System; Jack Johnson, who will be presented with a Distinguished Service Award; Seini Vamanrav, who will be accepting a Distinguished Service Award for her late husband, Elder Pita Vamanrav; and Paul Freebairn, who has been a faculty member for 30 years and will be acting as the Grand Marshal.

Elder Eric B. Shumway, president of BYU-Hawaii and Area Authority Seventy will conduct the exercises.

Staff | University Advancement | 12 December 2005 Laie, HI — The Brigham Young University Hawaii men's basketball team lost to Chaminade Friday night, 97-83, in a game played in the Seasiders' "Old Gym" (the Cannon Activities Center was being set up for graduation). The change in venue did not prove lucky for the Seasiders, however, as the Silverswords out-rebounded them 37-27. BYU-Hawaii’s 22 turnovers didn't help, despite shooting a higher percentage from the field and from the three-point line.

Chaminade took the lead early in the game and held a ten-point advantage, 48-38, at halftime. BYU-Hawaii cut the lead to four points twice, with the last time coming at 75-71, but the Silverswords quickly got the lead back to double digits and claimed the win.

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