Anna Stephenson
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Student volunteers worked for over 15 hours in one day to be sure the first Food Fest since the pandemic was a success
Elder Steven Olsen said the student volunteers who helped with Food Fest, accomplishing tasks such as taking care of garbage, cleaning and running the supply tent from which the food booths get napkins, silverware and other essentials, worked from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
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Hawaii Wildlife Center uses hand-felted ‘fuzzy foster parents’ to comfort white terns during their incubator stay
Known as the official city bird of Honolulu and one of the last native seabirds in the area, the mano o ku, or white tern (Gygis alba), is a handsome and charismatic bird with bright white feathers and strikingly black eyes.
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The Hawaiian Studies garden, Kahualoa, ensures the physical & spiritual self-sufficiency of Hawaii for generations, says caretakers
Lono Logan, born and raised in Laie and kalo caretaker at Kahualoa, the Hawaiian Studies garden on campus, said, “Kalo is not some random plant. We treat it as an ancestor.”
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BYUH students watch and learn as a new species of cricket evolves in real time, right in their front yard
Sterling Kerr, a senior biology major from Utah and the teaching assistant for the animal behavior class, said crickets are “one of the only animals on the earth actively going through an evolutionary process [people] can see with [their] eyes. … They’re a small cog in a really big wheel of things we don’t get to see every day.”
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How to use TheBus’s new mode of purchasing transportation
Just as landline phones, iPods and printed-out assignments are fading into the past, so are paper bus passes on Oahu.
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Saksak, a BYUH student who has worked as an on-campus security guard for 3.5 years, says employment is about how you care for and serve others
Edmund Saksak has worked as a security guard at both the Polynesian Cultural Center and at BYU–Hawaii since 2017, making him one of the students who has worked the longest in his position.
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Kualoa Ranch uses oysters to organically clean its fishpond and newspapers with banana and coconut leaves to grow taro with less weeding
Farmers and researchers are using oysters in a more than 800-year-old loko ia, or fishpond, on Kualoa Ranch, blending Hawaiian heritage and today’s innovation to overcome problems pre-contact Hawaiian farmers did not have to face. The problems include not having enough fish to eat pond algae and a lack of banana and coconut leaves to help grow taro better by keeping down weeds, they said.
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BYUH volunteer said bringing the PCC to ‘at-promise’ youth taught them to endure challenging situations by understanding their cultures
Longo Huhane is just one of the students who helped bring the Polynesian Cultural Center to the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy cadets, who are referred to as “at-promise” youth as opposed to “at-risk” youth. She said teaching the cadets about culture was impactful because it helped them realize they can draw strength from their roots.
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Big Island break off causing Oahu tsunami sounds like a “poorly-written disaster movie,” BYUH professor says
A viral post from a 2018 Big Island Now article claims that the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island, which is slowly slipping into the ocean, could break off and cause a catastrophic tsunami to strike Oahu. BYU–Hawaii geology professor, Dr. Benjamin Jordan, weighed in.
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