Alumni in Action: Trina Nahm-Miho.

Dance activism

Professor Marjorie Mau inspires minority students to consider careers in science.

Henk Rogers
’73–’75 Mānoa

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Food and Science and Technology Program, colleagues and former students installed a portrait of founder Edward Ross on the second floor of the Agricultural Science Building on the UH Mānoa campus.

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

Jeffrey Mahon
PhD ’98 in zoology Mānoa

The University of Hawaiʻi lost an active supporter and mentor in retired Chief Justice William S. Richardson and bade farewell to eight dedicated faculty members in 2010.

Pioneer social worker Patti Lyons, a passionate advocate for children, was awarded the University of Hawaiʻi’s Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during UH Mānoa’s spring commencement ceremonies.

The estate of Howard and Yoneko Droste gifts $810,000 to support art and English programs at UH Hilo.

A memorial service honoring the life of religion professor Rev. Mitsuo “Mits” Aoki will be held Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 at Church of the Crossroads in Honolulu.