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| February 21, 2005 | |
Grammy Guitarists Include UH Instructors
Manoa guitar instructor Jeff Peterson is one of two artists with UH ties featured on The Recording Academy's first Grammy Award award for Hawaiian Music. Peterson plays "Kahealani" on the Palm Records album Slack Key Guitar, Vol. 2. which was produced by UH alum Charles Michael Brotman, a former music instructor. The son of a paniolo, Peterson grew up on Haleakala Ranch on Maui.In addition to slack key, he has performed a variety of guitar styles with artists including Eric Clapton, James Galway, shakuhachi master Riley Lee and the Hawaii Opera Theatre. Brotman, who performs "Julia's Whisper" and "Kiholo Moon" on the CD, received his master's in guitar performance from Manoa. Popular in Japan, his styles include classical and smooth jazz. Brotman leads the acoustic guitar trio Kohala, is president of Palm Records and owns Lava Tracks Recording Studio. Read the Star-Bulletin or the Honolulu Advertiser award coverage.
Language Project Wins AwardManoa's Language Documentation Project advised by Associate Professor of Linguistics Kenneth Rehg and directed by Valerie Guerin, will receive the 2005 TOEFL/NAFSA Partners in Excellence Award. The honor includes $1,500 for the program and student participants and airfare, accommodations and an opportunity to describe the program at the NAFSA conference in May. The student-organized project trains speakers of under-documented languages how to document their own languages. It pairs undergraduate students with graduate students for projects that contribute to the international language community as well as students' own communities. Language projects in spring 2004 included Cham, Chuukese,Ilokano, Kalmyk, Kemak, Lungtu, Okinawan, Tiwa and Truku. Visit the project website.
AppointmentsSanjay Nadkarni has been named a research affiliate with Manoa's School of Travel Industry Management. Formerly with the Institute for Tourism Studies in Macao, he is exploring partnerships with academic institutions in India to deliver postgraduate management and executive development programs in India. See News@TIM. Attorney and CPA Lani Starkey has joined the UH Foundation as associate director of gift planning. He previously worked at the California firm Crescendo Interactive. Read the UHF release.
In Memory
Professor Emeritus John Richard Holmes, 87, died Feb. 7 in San Francisco and was honored in a Feb. 20 celebration in San Mateo, Calif. Holmes was recruited from the University of Southern Californiain 1964 to chair Manoa's growing Department of Physics and Astronomy. He retired in 1989. Holmes held a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and gained experience in Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and on the Manhattan Project. He was a fellow of the Optical Society of America and American Physical Society as well as a UNESCO and Fulbright scholar.The family suggests memorial gifts to the American Cancer Society. Read the San Francisco Chronicle obituary.
Emeritus Professor Werner Levi, who helped shape Manoa's Department of Political Science and led a successful challenge to mandatory retirement, died Feb. 6 at Castle Medical Center. He was 92. The German native held three doctoral degrees and wrote a dozen books on international relations. He served as a professor from 1963 until 1977 and continued to teach as a lecturer into the 1990s. A private family service is planned. Read the Honolulu Star-Bulletin obituary. | ||||||||||||
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Manoa geophysicist Gerard Fryer debates the cause of a devastating 1946 tsunami in SitNews. Manoa graduate students Jennifer Dunn, Jay Hubert, Yoshihisa Amae and Kuan-hung Chen received awards for Chinese studies. Read the release.
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