Author Archive: Tracy Matsushima
Law School leaps 26 points in rankings
The William S. Richardson School of Law rose 26 points to be ranked among the top tier law schools in the country, according to the latest U.S. News and World Report.
Manoa music professor awarded composer of the year
Thomas Osborne is recognized as the Music Teachers National Association Distinguished Composer of the Year.
Leeward CC celebrates Shakespeare
Leeward CC’s Semester of Shakespeare features a lineup of four public lectures and activities organized around Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy Twelfth Night.
Denise Evans estate funds ocean and cancer research
UH Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the UH Cancer Center each receives 1.5 million from the Denise B. Evans estate.
UH News on OCSports presents new segments
UH News on OCSports features news segments for December and January.
Haleakala silversword faces global warming threat
New research published in Global Change Biology warns that global warming may have severe consequences for the silversword in its native habitat.
Astronomers find planets the size of Earth are common
A team of astronomers including UH Mānoa’s Andrew Howard found that 17 percent of all sun-like stars have planets one to two times the diameter of Earth in close orbits.
Ben Jay accepts job as UH athletics director
Ben Jay of Ohio State University accepts job as University of Hawaiʻi athletics director.
Physics professor receives Humboldt Award
UH Manoa’s Sandip Pakvasa, one of the world’s leading experts on neutrinos and heavy quarks, honored with Humboldt Award.
Record crowds at Native Hawaiian scholarship events
UH’s Native Hawaiian Scholarship ʻAha workshops are drawing record-breaking numbers.
