Manoa Associate Professor Maile Andrade, Instructor C Manu Kaiama, Professor Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa, Assistant Professor Karen Kosasa, Professor Geoff White and Lecturer Vicky Holt Takamine participated in the June symposium Exhibiting Polynesia: Past, Present, and Future symposium in Paris.
Matthew Craig, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology researcher, was awarded Best Article Award 2008 by the Ichthyological Society of Japan for his article "A Molecular Phylogeny of the Groupers of the Subfamily Epinephelinae (Serranidae) with a Revised Classification of the Epinephelini."
UH Hilo Professor Robert Fox was elected vice chair/chair-elect of the School Choice Special Interest Group. He will lead an organization devoted to research on charter schools, school vouchers, magnet schools and international school choice.