Dickson Curates Jewelry Exhibit

Business researcher, thrill seeker and clothing expert curates a Hawai‘i jewelry exhibit. Meet Manoa's Carol Anne Dickson in this News@UH feature.

Kaua‘i Native Joins Hilo Staff

Randy Hirokawa

Randy Y. Hirokawa joined the Hilo campus Jan. 3 as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He was professor and chair of communication at the University of Iowa.

Born in Hanapepe, Hirokawa holds a bachelor’s in speech communication from Manoa and a master’s and PhD from the University of Washington. His expertise lies in group communication and decision-making dynamics.

Read the news release.

Visiting Artist to Speak, Perform

Rosanna Raymond

Poet, artist and costume designer Rosanna Raymond is the Center for Pacific Islands Studies Visiting Distinguished Artist for 2005 at Manoa.

Born in New Zealand of Samoan and pakeha (haole) ancestry, Raymond was raised in a predominantly Maori community. She draws on all three heritages for her art and multi-media performances. Taking inspiration from the oral histories she listened to growing up, Raymond "wrestles with the landscapes of her differing worlds."

Now living in England, she also struggles with the challenges of trying to draw on her "Island ness" at a distance.

Raymond will be in residence at Manoa Feb. 7-11, visiting classes and making two public presentations-

• Beaten, Twisted, Flowing: Creating in the Diaspora, a symposium at noon Feb. 8, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium.
• Warm Breezes and Soft Touches, a performance at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 in HIG 110. Raymond combines poetry, artwork and costume design to create memorable characters such as Full Tusk Maiden, who enlighten as they entertain. Refreshments will follow.

For information, call 808 956-7700.

Faculty Achievements and Activities

Manoa Professor of Law Larry Foster was appointed reporter and American Judicature Society Hawai‘i chapter liaison for a committee examining the role of the state bar association and other organizations in the judicial selection system and high percentage of women not retained by the Judicial Selection Commission.

Hilo Professor of Art Wayne Miyamoto received the E. C. Lyons Juror's Award at the Mid-America Print Council National Exhibition in Nebraska. He is participating in the Ink and Clay 31 exhibition at California State University, Pomona.

Jon Van Dyke delivered the keynote address to the Taiwan Society of International Law in December 2004.

In Memory: Hampton Carson

Carson, 1970s photo

Memorial services for Manoa Emeritus Professor Hampton L. Carson are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, at the garden level, Jefferson Hall, East-West Center. He, a member of the faculty as an entomologist and researcher in cellular and molecular biology, died last month.

Carson had been associated with UH since 1963, and was world renowned for his studies relating to fruit fly populations to examine (in his words) “genetic changes in populations that lead to the origin of species, species formation on oceanic islands as paradigm, chromosomes and evolution, evolution of parthenogenesis and sexual behavior and genetic shifts in small populations.”

Carson was one of a few Manoa faculty members elected to membership (in 1978) in the National Academies of Sciences.

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