Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Iosepa, the place, inspires new BYU-Hawaii archivist
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, October 7, 2004. Kester has since finished his PhD and the Oxford University Press will soon publish his dissertation as a book.] Matthew Kester [pictured at right], who graduated from BYU-Hawaii in 1999 and is a Ph.D. candidate in Pacific history at […]
The beauty and harmony of Navaho rugs
One of the side benefits of recently staying at Jacob Lake Inn near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was meeting the grandson of the founders, John Rich, who used his personal experiences and 40-year career of dealing in hand-woven Navaho rugs to help us understand the concept of hozho. Rich, pictured at left, […]
Effective habits of entrepreneurship
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” September 11, 2007] Stephen W. Gibson [pictured on the right], the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the BYU-Hawaii Mark and Laura Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship shared seven highly effective habits with School of Business students during the first lecture in the CIE’s 2007-08 series. Gibson, who […]
Kolea expert spends two weeks at BYU-Hawaii
[Story by Mike Foley: Originally published in the online BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, January 21, 2008] One of the foremost international experts on Pluvialis fulva — the Pacific Golden-Plover — has spent the past two weeks at BYU-Hawaii helping faculty and students, as well as state and federal researchers, net and band specimens of the unique long-distance […]