Marilou Andres

Jason Schiffman

Manoa Pair Gets Young Investigator Awards

Manoa researchers received two of the 190 Young Investigator awards made by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression during 2004. Marilou Andres, assistant specialist in the Pacific Biomedical Research Center's Bekesy Laboratory, investigates genetic changes that may cause some symptoms of schizophrenia. Jason Schiffman, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, is studying factors that could identify adolescents at high risk of developing psychoses.Read the news release.

Kennedy, Paliku Win Theatre Awards

Fan Xing (Omitsu), photo by Andrew Shimabuku

Manoa student Fan Xing won a 2004 Po‘okela Award for Leading Female in a Play. She received the Hawai‘i State Theatre Council's nod for her portrayal of the self-sacrificing Omitsu in the Kennedy Theatre kabuki production Nozaki Village.

Ricardo Trimillos

Ricardo Trimillos, chair of Asian studies and a member of the music faculty at Manoa, won a Po‘okela Excellence Award for musical direction of the play.

Windward's Paliku Theatre also produced Po‘okela winners—Featured Male in a Play for Brent Yoshikami, Featured Female in a Play for Clara Ann Chorley and Ensemble for the entire cast, all for Noises Off.

Physician Tseng Wins Johnson Grant

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Chien-Wen Tseng has received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The four-year $300,000 grant will allow Tseng to develop guidelines so physicians can help their patients afford prescriptions. Read the news release.

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2004 Regents and Presidential Scholars were recognized at an awards dinner July 15. See the news release for their names.

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