Mike Foley
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Dr. Kester Urges Students to Fulfill Peacemaking Vision
History professor and University Archivist Dr. Matt Kester urged BYU-Hawaii students in his October 11 devotional address, A City on a Hill, to fulfill the Savior's admonition to be peacemakers and founder President David O. McKay's charge to "establish peace internationally."
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BYU-Hawaii Math Professor Participates in Prestigious Institute
For four weeks last summer, BYU-Hawaii mathematics professor Dr. Susan Barton [pictured at left] participated with 69 other mid-career women in academia in the prestigious joint Bryn Mawr HERS (Higher Educational Resources Services) Summer Institute. The annual program, held on the famed "seven sisters" campus near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has provided women leadership and management development in higher educational administration over the past 35 years.
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Career Forum Preps BYU-Hawaii Students for Job Fair
BYU-Hawaii Director of Career Services Kimbrelyn Austin [pictured at left] and some of her staff presented advice, listed do's and don'ts and even role played to help students prepare to meet recruiters during the October 16 job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cannon Activities Center.
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Piena Named Acting ISS Director
BYU-Hawaii Vice President of Student Affairs Isileli Kongaika announced October 4 that Lupe Piena, MPA, JD, has been named acting director of International Student Services.
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Maori Youth Visit BYU-Hawaii, PCC
Twenty-one high school students from Wellington, New Zealand, in the Nga Taiohi o te Rawhiti o te Upoko o te Ika cultural group visited BYU-Hawaii and the Polynesian Cultural Center this week during a 10-day tour of Hawaii, and took time to share a very polished presentation of Maori kapa haka or traditional songs and dances in the Aloha Center mall.
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Asher Dispenses Grad School Admission Strategies
Donald Asher, author of nine books on career development who regularly gives presentations at more than 100 major universities around the U.S. each year, shared strategies with BYU-Hawaii students in the September 25 Career Services forum on how to land scholarships, take standardized tests, stand out from the crowd and write amazing essays to gain admission to highly competitive graduate school programs.
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BYU-Hawaii Basketball Alum Extols Entrepreneurship
Alan Akina, a BYU-Hawaii basketball player from 1991-95, told School of Business students in the September 18 entrepreneurship lecture how he was inspired to start several businesses while still a full-time student at the university. He also shared some of the keys to the success he has enjoyed since then and encouraged the students to begin developing networks with professors and peers.
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BYU-Hawaii Conducts Mentored Internship Project in Brazil
While hundreds of BYU-Hawaii students now go on individual internships each summer, a much smaller number participate in mentored projects such as the one this year where five international students and three faculty members are producing a case-based multimedia training tool for mental health workers with one of the top medical schools in Brazil.
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Alumni go the Distance Against Varsity Volleyball Team
Alumni players from the BYU-Hawaii women's volleyball team came together in the Cannon Activities Center on September 13, and showed they still got game by forcing the varsity into a two-two tie before bowing in the fifth game of the match.
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