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A group of college students dressed in business attire, stand on the steps of the United Nations in New York City. Flag poles and flags are behind them.

Marshall Islands ambassador reminds students they are important to the people in the homelands during trip to the U.N.

Chaille Faye Kioa, BYU–Hawaii alumna from Tonga who majored in political science, was one of nine students selected to attend the field study at the United Nations Headquarters in the first week of Spring Semester.

A young woman drummer sits behind a drum set holding drumsticks with a chainlink fence in back of her and tree covered green hills in the background.

'Boys On Jupiter' is an all-girl, freshmen-student band in Laie

Marley White, Tesa Ziegler, Annie Jones and Claire Westcott said being part of a band has always been a dream of theirs. The four freshman girls said they never expected to create a band while at BYU–Hawaii, but once they all connected, their band, Boys on Jupiter, was formed in September of 2020.

A woman wearing a blue and white T-shirt, smiles and holds her baby in her arms with green bushes in the background.

Mothers share their experiences and challenges as also wives and full-time BYUH students

Lily Simpson said she always wanted to follow Heavenly Father’s commandment to procreate and receive the eternal blessing of a family.

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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

In the late 1970s, May became known as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, or AAPI, which commemorates the success of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander figures, the History website says.

A father holds up his baby son with grass, palm trees and part of the Laie Hawaii Temple in the background.

Inspired by his own father, new BYUH father says he seeks to instill love for reading in his son

After his first baby was born in December 2021, Naoshi Murata, a junior from Nara, Japan, majoring in information systems, said he was able to see how difficult it is to raise a child and felt more grateful for his parents who raised him. He said he appreciates his father who cares for him, though not always through words but by his father’s actions.

An 11-year-old boy dressed in a T-shirt holds a Samoan fireknife.

‘Don’t drop it’ and ‘impress the judges’ were Junior Fireknife Champion Elway Tora’s main thoughts during his winning performance

Moments before taking the stage to perform various spins and catches in his fireknife routine, the 2022 Junior World Fireknife Champion, 11-year-old Elway Tora of Laie, said he had butterflies in his stomach. “[I] tried my best not to think about going on stage, tried not to be nervous.”

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Two students from Mililani reminisce on fishing cultures and their favorite memories of fishing in Hawaii

According to Hawaiian tradition, when fishing one should never say the word “fish,” shared Seth Thompson, a senior from Mililani studying finance and economics. The belief is if you do, it will scare all the fish away. Instead, when going out with fishing gear in hand, Thompson said older locals will say “holoholo” or “take it easy,” and everyone will know what they mean.

A couple wearing baseball caps and beige T-shirts stands in the window of their frozen banana food truck in Haleiwa.

Owners of Bananza and BYUH alumni say they owe the success of their frozen banana food truck to winning Great Ideas

Tess Moncur said she and her husband Max, who are owners of Bananza and BYU–Hawaii alumni, believe winning the Great Ideas Competition in Fall Semester 2020 gave them the emotional boost they needed to endure the hardships of opening a small business during the pandemic.

Two men are seated one wearing a plaid shirt and blue pants and talking into a microphone, and the other is wearing a gray plaid shirt, brown pants and sandals.

Authors Mason and Pulsipher’s chance meeting led to a unique look at the restoration and proclaiming peace

In 2011, academics and authors David Pulsipher and Patrick Mason both attended an academic conference on the subject of the Mormon perspective on war and peace. Pulsipher said it was when they went out to get yogurt that he proposed writing a book about how the restored gospel supports peace efforts. The finished work “Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict” was the centerpiece of the Proclaim Peace Academic Conference held at BYU–Hawaii’s campus and sponsored by the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

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