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Looking beyond film

By Abigail Harper
February 07, 2023
Yifen Beus, the David O. McKay lecturer, discusses a new approach to reading Pacific Island films in film studies
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BYUH alumnus shares his musical journey and passion of conducting and piano performance

By Abigail Harper
January 31, 2023
Lawrence Laureano’s love of singing and teaching music has helped him and others find emotional support through the demands of life, he said. “I’ve had a profound understanding since I was a little boy that we are all connected and that’s the reason why I love choral music. We are connected in choir.”
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U.S. Mongolian ambassador encourages Mongolian BYUH students to share their stories

By Abigail Harper
January 31, 2023
While speaking to BYU–Hawaii’s Mongolian students, the United States ambassador to Mongolia advised them to “Tell your stories.” Ambassador Richard Buangan said, “Right now, all Americans know of Mongolia is Genghis Khan, but there is a Mongolia of today and that story needs to be told.” Buangan is from California, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Saint Edwards University in Austin, Texas. He speaks French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
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Creating NGOs and making a difference in people's lives

By Abigail Harper
January 18, 2023
Twenty-five peacebuilding students at BYUH presented their ideas for non-governmental organizations that could help people around the world
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Capturing a full life

By Abigail Harper
December 28, 2022
Born in the middle of the Liberian Civil War, Alphanso Appleton said his childhood was spent on the run, displaced and separated from family. As a young adult, he shared he held his baby girl as she died.
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Giving Machines Opening Ceremony in Pearlridge

By Abigail Harper
November 29, 2022
It is fascinating that a church with such a deep tradition would come up with such a modern idea to help people in need, said Hawaii's Governor-elect Josh Green about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint's Giving Machines.
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Jazzy research

By Abigail Harper
November 08, 2022
Long-lost music manuscripts of Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and others are being brought back to life through BYUH’s new Studio Orchestra
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A little Hawaiian girl who ate mud is now using her Harvard degree to combine Hawaiian culture and science

By Abigail Harper
September 30, 2022
With a voice loud enough to fill an entire Heber J. Grant Building chapel without a microphone, Dr. Kiana Frank, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, told BYU–Hawaii students about how she ate mud as a child.
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Creating a safer campus for women

By Abigail Harper
September 13, 2022
A faculty forum was held on Sept. 8 to educate professors and instructors on how to build a safer community for all women on BYU–Hawaii’s campus. Sponsored by the BYUH Faculty Advisory Council, Women in Academia and the BYUH Title IX Office, all of campus was invited to the Heber J. Grant Building 135 to learn the importance of acting against sexism.
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