Manoa Language and Culture Programs Receive $8 MillionAsian and Pacific Language Programs funded. Read more
KudosWest O'ahu’s Gene Awakuni, Chris Conybeare, Manoa’s Hazel Beh, Charles Booth, Sanjay Nadkarni, Randall Roth, Hilo’s Jean Ippolito, David Miller, Wayne Miyamoto and Ken Staton. Read moreNew BookManoa's Rebecca Knuth publishes Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction. Read more
Photos HighlightsUH's banner in Iraq, the staff at Leeward CC Wai‘anae and Manoa's carved pumpkins. Read more
UH EventsTed Kooser speaks at Manoa and Windward, Windward’s Take 5 with Nature exhibit, Leeward’s Arabian Nights, Hilo’s Jane Eyre and International Education Week, Maui’s Boteilho reading, Manoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Merwin on Bibliovision, Ying Quartet performance and Becker lecture and Kaua‘i’s The Lines Are Drawn. Read more
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West O'ahu Chancellor Gene Awakuni was the guest speaker at Rotary Club of Kapolei Ocotber breakfast meeting.
Manoa Professor Hazel Beh participated in a roundtable Teaching Only Abstinence: Consequences for Girls and Society at Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Program on International Health and Human Rights.
Charles Booth, Manoa professor, presented “Analysis of the News Chinese Bankruptcy Law” at the Oxford Conference on Regulating Enterprise in Hong Kong, China.
Chris Conybeare, West O'ahu media specialist, was named to the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Francisco/Northern California chapter.
Jean Ippolito, Hilo assistant professor, had “Teaching the History of Asian Art in the United States” accepted for presentation at the 2007 Hawai‘i International Conference on the Arts and Humanities.
Hilo Professor David Miller was invited to present his paper “First Folio: Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647)” at the 4th International Conference on the Book, held in Boston, MA. Miller received a grant from the University Research Council for his travel.
Wayne Miyamoto, Hilo professor presented his work in the Heyli Printmedia Festival, Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association in Seoul, Korea. The exhibition was titled From Paper to Digital.
Sanjay Nadkarni, Manoa research affiliate, was invited to address the faculty at the Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism Management. He spoke on the importance of information technology in the context of propoor tourism initiatives.
Manoa Professor Randall Roth was named the recipient of the George Washington Award from the Grassroot Institute of Hawai’i and will be honored at their 2006 Annual Awards Dinner.
Ken Staton, Hilo chair of performing arts, was a guest conductor with the Heartland Symphony Orchestra in Northern Minnesota. Staton was invited by the symphony’s board of directors to develop and conduct the Hawai'i in the Heartland concert.