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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.
Over the summer, around 100 teenage Chinese athletes played basketball Seasider-style. In cooperation with the China University Basketball Association (CUBA), BYU-Hawaii conducted the first-ever American basketball academy for high school players in China.
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.
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.
Rosemarie Howard | University Advancement | 14 September 2007
“There is a Wind and Rain particular to Maui that rises at twilight. It whispers of other places and other times, both mythic and real. It blows between daylight and night, between times and worlds. It is hopeful and cleansing. The ancient Hawaiian name for the wind and rain is ‘Ulalena !”
So begins the storyline for “Ka Ua Ka’a,” the traveling 45-minute version of ‘Ulalena. Written by former cast member, Pono Murray, the production “intertwines Hawaiian myths and legends through dramatic interpretation, modern and traditional hula, acrobatics, song and chant,” said Matthew Erickson, marketing and sales manager for the production company.
“There is a Wind and Rain particular to Maui that rises at twilight. It whispers of other places and other times, both mythic and real. It blows between daylight and night, between times and worlds. It is hopeful and cleansing. The ancient Hawaiian name for the wind and rain is ‘Ulalena !”
So begins the storyline for “Ka Ua Ka’a,” the traveling 45-minute version of ‘Ulalena. Written by former cast member, Pono Murray, the production “intertwines Hawaiian myths and legends through dramatic interpretation, modern and traditional hula, acrobatics, song and chant,” said Matthew Erickson, marketing and sales manager for the production company.
Stace Hall | University Advancement | 13 September 2007
During the second devotional of the 2007-2008 school year, Isileli T. Kongaika told audience members as they develop characteristics of charity they will be a force to spread peace internationally, as President David O. McKay prophesied over 50 years ago.
'Without doubt, my brothers and sisters, our purpose here at this university is to fulfill this prophetic vision to become international peacemakers. To you…I extend this invitation," the vice president of student life said.
The biggest challenge facing this goal is not accepting racial and cultural differences, Kongaika said. "How about asking yourself this question: Do you, as an international peacemaker, still have an issue with this, because somebody is different?"
During the second devotional of the 2007-2008 school year, Isileli T. Kongaika told audience members as they develop characteristics of charity they will be a force to spread peace internationally, as President David O. McKay prophesied over 50 years ago.
'Without doubt, my brothers and sisters, our purpose here at this university is to fulfill this prophetic vision to become international peacemakers. To you…I extend this invitation," the vice president of student life said.
The biggest challenge facing this goal is not accepting racial and cultural differences, Kongaika said. "How about asking yourself this question: Do you, as an international peacemaker, still have an issue with this, because somebody is different?"
Stephen W. Gibson, the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the Mark and Laura Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship shared seven highly effective habits with BYU-Hawaii School of Business students today during the first lecture in the CIE's 2007-08 series.
Stace Hall | University Advancement | 10 September 2007
For some members of the BYU-Hawaii community, registering travel arrangements through the now decade-old campus travel office is, well, the only way to fly.
"I've been here for eight years. I travel about five or six times each year, mostly international, and I travel exclusively through the travel office. [The staff] will make any reservation for you, they'll try to get the best price for you. It's a great service," said Michael Sudlow, assistant dean for international admissions.
The travel office handles corporate and personal travel needs for the university. This includes arrangements for students, staff, alumni, and visitors. The office also grants requests for entities with ties to BYU-Hawaii, including the Polynesian Cultural Center, the Laie Hawaii Temple, Hawaii Reserves Incorporated, and the LDS Church office in Honolulu.
For some members of the BYU-Hawaii community, registering travel arrangements through the now decade-old campus travel office is, well, the only way to fly.
"I've been here for eight years. I travel about five or six times each year, mostly international, and I travel exclusively through the travel office. [The staff] will make any reservation for you, they'll try to get the best price for you. It's a great service," said Michael Sudlow, assistant dean for international admissions.
The travel office handles corporate and personal travel needs for the university. This includes arrangements for students, staff, alumni, and visitors. The office also grants requests for entities with ties to BYU-Hawaii, including the Polynesian Cultural Center, the Laie Hawaii Temple, Hawaii Reserves Incorporated, and the LDS Church office in Honolulu.
In a smaller afternoon follow-up session on his September 6 academic convocation address, BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright explained several important lessons as well as differences can derive from the business innovation and product development models he described earlier that day in the Cannon Activities Center to help faculty, staff and students achieve the university's two-fold mission.
BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright told students and faculty at the annual convocation that knowledge of innovation—coupled with inspiration—will help the university accomplish its goals.
Thanks to an improvised semester project, four BYU-Hawaii business students found out what's in a name…even though, at first, they didn't have one. The students created—at the last minute—the "No Name Shrimp Truck."
The Brigham Young University Hawaii International Work Experience Scholarship Council has implemented several changes this semester to the IWES program, which benefits over 500 BYU-Hawaii students, and announced several others that will take effect in 2008.