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For Immediate Release:

July 14, 2000

Contact: Jim Manke - University and Community Relations - 956-6106



 

Events at UH Campuses for the Week of July 16-22

UH Laboratory School Summer Program's 30th anniversary Campus Day. Show Off Science features science related activities for UH Lab School students. Presentations and interactive experiments allow students to see how science works in everyday situations. Featuring a Hall of Discovery and Show Off Science Olympics. Tuesday July 18, 8:00-11:30 a.m. students only. 12:30-3:00 p.m. open to parents and public. Contact Cecilia H. Fordham 956-4919 for more information.

2000 Pacific Asian Lecture Series, Topics this week: Reassessing the Role of Culture in International Business, Oded Shenkar, Ohio State University, Tuesday July 18, and Hawai'i's International Entrepreneurs, Jim Richardson, University of Hawai'i, CBA, on Thursday July 20. Both presentations at 4:15-5:45 pm, Free College of Business Administration, 2404 Maile Way, Room C-102, UH Manoa, Contact: Barbara Edelstein 956-6923.

July meetings of the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents will be held on the UH Manoa campus. Committee meetings begin at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, July 20, at Campus Center Room 220. The full Board will convene at 8:30 a.m., Friday, July 21, at Campus Center room 220. Agendas are posted on the Web at www.hawaii.edu/bor or call the board office at 956-8213 for further information.

Regents and Presidential Scholars for the coming academic year will be introduced at a dinner Thursday July 20, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the UH Manoa Campus Center Ballroom. Media coverage in invited and encouraged. Contact Jim Manke, University and Community Relations at 956-6106 for specifics.

UH Manoa Outreach College presents the Japanese language film: Fireworks [Hanabi]. Color, 103 minutes, 1997 film with English subtitles. This Venice film Festival award winner offers Japanese film noir at its best. Director Takeshi Kitano combines action, humor and emotion in this film about an ex-policeman and his dying wife. July 20 and 21, 7:30 p.m. Free at the Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall 12. Call 956-3836 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu.

The Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI) presents the 2000 N.H. Paul Chung Memorial Lecture, by Kenneth E. Olsen, San Diego entrepreneur, "angel investor," and director of several San Diego Companies. San Diego's International Economic Renaissance - What Can Hawai'i Learn? Monday July 17. Olsen will speak at a luncheon program at the Hilton Hawaiian Village South Pacific Room I. The Chung Memorial Lecture is held annually to honor Paul Chung, who founded PAMI in 1977 with the vision of creating a "knowledge center" for international management. Media coverage is invited and encouraged. For more information, call Art Richardson at the PAMI office at 956-3254.


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