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Data Businessman Kicks off Entrepreneurship Series

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By Mike Foley
February 02, 2009 11:47 AM
In the first Brigham Young University Hawaii Entrepreneurship Lecture Series of 2009, Digitalbridge President & CEO Terry Pitts told how, along with two others, each put $500 into a new healthcare data business that they sold four years later for $15 million. Then he shared the lessons and principles he learned in the process, and since with four other companies, with the students in the McKay Auditorium on January 29.
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Exchange Professor Explains Rhetoric is not Just Talking

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By Mike Foley
February 02, 2009 10:08 AM
Dr. Greg Clark, a BYU Provo professor and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities on exchange with BYU-Hawaii's Dr. Ned Williams, said in the Honors colloquium on January 28 that the ancient art of rhetoric is "often terribly misunderstood" and extends beyond talking into many phases of our lives.
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Black Shares Experiences with Honors Students

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By Mike Foley
January 22, 2009 04:47 PM
Leonard Black [pictured at left], Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Brigham Young University Hawaii's Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship, shared some of his wide-ranging experiences with Honors Program students at their January 21 colloquium, including being a fluent Navajo-speaking missionary, NCAA Final-Four basketball player, decorated Viet Nam veteran, university professor, gold miner, serial entrepreneur, and assistant BYUH men's basketball coach.
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BYUH Names New Director of Communications and Marketing

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By Mike Foley
January 21, 2009 08:41 AM
Dr. William G. Neal, Assistant to the President of Brigham Young University Hawaii, announced that Michael A. Johanson has succeeded Dr. Duane C. Roberts as the school's Director of Communications and Marketing. Dr. Roberts retired at the end of Fall Semester 2008 and he and his wife, Susan, now live in Utah.
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Former Faculty Report on China Volunteer Experience

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By Mike Foley
January 20, 2009 10:25 AM
Former Brigham Young University Hawaii adjunct faculty members Robbin [pictured at left] and Nancy Henderson [pictured below] shared a report on their recent experiences as volunteer oral English language teachers for graduate students at Qingtao University in Qingtao, China, during the weekly Honors Program colloquium in McKay 101 on January 14.
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President's Council 2009 Q & A Forum Series Starts

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By Mike Foley
January 16, 2009 04:26 PM
Members of the Brigham Young University Hawaii President's Council met with students, faculty and staff on January 13 in Aloha Center 155/165 to answer submitted questions on outreach programs, Security updates, Honor Code provisions, schedules and notices, housing, energy savings, athletics and initiatives.
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Professor Wesley to Head Reorganized Pacific Institute

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By Mike Foley
January 13, 2009 09:40 AM
Brigham Young University Hawaii has appointed Education Professor Dr. Hiagi M. Wesley [pictured at right], a BYUH alumnus, as Director of the university's newly renamed and reorganized Jonathan Napela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Studies.
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PCC Appoints BYUH Alumnus to New Executive Position

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By Mike Foley
January 11, 2009 06:11 PM
The Polynesian Cultural Center Board of Directors has appointed BYU-Hawaii alumnus P. Alfred Grace ['88, Travel Management; pictured at left] of Laie as its first-ever Chief Operating Officer (COO), PCC President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Von D. Orgill announced at a company "team meeting" on January 9 in the IMAX™ Theater. Grace had previously been serving as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
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Winter Semester 2009 Starts Smoothly Amid Changes

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By Mike Foley
January 08, 2009 06:18 PM
"I am pleased to welcome you to this special campus, whether as a new or returning student," said Brigham Young University Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright, as almost 400 new Seasiders — most of them transferring from other universities — started Winter Semester on January 7, 2009.
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