Entries from October 2010

Celebrate Homecoming Oct. 25-31

October 13th, 2010 | by Alumni Relations Staff | Comments Off

University of Hawaiʰi at Mānoa Homecoming 2010 has it all. Join the campus in learning (documentary film, nursing lecture, business event); remembering (Golden Scholars Reunion); playing (Halloween events and a homecoming fair); and cheering (Rainbow Wahine Volleyball and Warrior Football).


UH researcher elected to national health body

October 12th, 2010 | by Cheryl Ernst | 3 Comments

Suzanne Murphy, a University of Hawaiʻi cancer researcher, was elected this week to the National Academies Institute of Medicine.


Pacific Island students pursue sciences

October 12th, 2010 | by Jennifer Crites | Comments Off

Undergraduate Research and Mentoring encourages Pacific Island students in biosciences.


Children use conversation strategies to learn

October 12th, 2010 | by Malamalama Staff | Comments Off

By age 2, children contribute actively to the process of learning about the world around them, seeking causal information and using specific conversational strategies to obtain it.


November Adopt-A-Highway cleanup

October 12th, 2010 | by Malamalama Staff | Comments Off

Join the University of Hawaiʻi Alumni Association crew on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010, in cleaning up UHAA’s two-mile stretch of Kalanianaʻole Highway between West Hind Drive and Halemaʻumaʻu Street.


Jeffrey Mahon: Aquarium exhibit director

October 12th, 2010 | by Malamalama Staff | Comments Off

Jeffrey Mahon
PhD ’98 in zoology Mānoa


Song in the rare Taiwanese language Truku

October 11th, 2010 | by Online Editor | Comments Off

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa linguistics graduate student Apay Tang introduces and sings a song in the endangered Taiwanese language Truku.


Students document disappearing languages

October 11th, 2010 | by Tracy Matsushima | 2 Comments

Linguistics students record endangered languages.

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Association holds UHAA Day at Windward Mall

October 11th, 2010 | by Alumni Relations Staff | Comments Off

There was fun, free t-shirts and information at the University of Hawaiʻi Alumni Association’s first-ever UHAA Day Aug. 28, 2010, at Windward Mall.


Summit focuses on value of higher education

October 11th, 2010 | by Malamalama Staff | Comments Off

More than 250 community leaders attended E Kamakani Hou (a new wind), the UH System’s first higher education summit, hosted by UH President M.R.C. Greenwood.