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Cat Ruangthap said she has been practicing three-to-five hours a day nearly every day on a piano on the second floor of the McKay building auditorium in preparation for a recital.
Starting mid-October every year, the BYU–Hawaii Facilities Management department starts the months-long process of decorating the campus in time for Christmas, explained Curt Christiansen, project manager, capital assets and key assets coordinator for BYUH.
Five students from the Biology 350 class had the opportunity to fly via helicopter up to the Koloa mountain range with David Bybee, associate professor and director of sustainability for BYU–Hawaii. Bybee explained their goal was to collect data as part of a research project initiated by U.S. Army biologists with the construction of an exclusion fence in 2011 and BYUH became involved with the project in 2012.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
Just as landline phones, iPods and printed-out assignments are fading into the past, so are paper bus passes on Oahu.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hawaii does not have the fields of flowers mainlanders may think of when considering the humble wildflower. But the islands are nonetheless covered in wild-growing flowering plants. The Hawaiian yellow hibiscus, or ma‘o hau hele, is Hawaii’s state flower. However, the University of Hawaii’s Native Plant Propagation Database says there are seven native species of hibiscus dotting Hawaii, five of which are native to the islands.
Just as landline phones, iPods and printed-out assignments are fading into the past, so are paper bus passes on Oahu.
Farmers and researchers are using oysters in a more than 800-year-old loko ia, or fishpond, on Kualoa Ranch, blending Hawaiian heritage and modern innovations to overcome problems pre-contact Hawaiian farmers didn’t face. The problems include not having enough fish to eat pond algae, explained Kualoa Ranch employees, and a lack of banana and coconut leaves to help grow taro better by keeping down weeds.