April 4, 2005

Manoa Graduate and Professional Programs Ranked in U.S. News

In the US News & World Report rankings Manoa’s College of Education, College of Business Administration and the William S. Richardson School of Law was recognized among the nation’s best. The magazine will be on news stands April 4.

Highlights
• The College of Education moved from 73 to 60.
• The College of Business Administration’s international business program was ranked in the top 25—the graduate program tied for 22.
• The School of Law was ranked 83 and is in the top half of the 179 law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The environmental law program is 25.
• The law school was also recognized by the magazine’s diversity index and is in the top 15.

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Cancer Research Center Project Moving Forward

The Board of Regents authorized the university to enter into an agreement with Townsend Capital, LLC for the development of the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i project in Kaka‘ako. The agreement will cover planning, designing, financing, construction and management of the project.

“The Townsend team includes nationally recognized architectural firms and general contractors with pertinent experience in designing and building cancer centers across the country,” says Carl-Wilhelm Vogel, director of the Cancer Research Center.

“The selection of Townsend Capital LLC is an important milestone toward the university’s goal of improving the quality of cancer care, and the volume of cancer research, in our state,” adds Interim President David McClain.

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Herbarium Receives $83,000

Will McClatchey

The National Science Foundation awarded an $83,000 grant to Associate Profesor Will McClatchey of the Manoa botany department to support streamlining and reorganizing the university's herbarium collections. Manoa supports two small herbaria at the Lyon Arboretum and botany department, which contain approximately 42,000 mounted specimens. The specimens include the entire floras, with examples of rare and endangered species, from the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Tonga and the Marshall Islands.

The reorganization aims to combine both herbaria into one functional unit and to maximize workspace through installation of a compact storage system. The grant will also provide support for botanical collection enhancement, computerization of specimen-related data and research to develop better methods for specimen curation and collection management.

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Education Community Counseling Program Accredited

The College of Education’s community counseling specialization in the master’s degree program has been granted accreditation by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. The goal of this specialization is to prepare counselors to work effectively in community service settings. CACREP granted accreditation through June 2008.

Currently, the master’s degree program in counseling and guidance is one of only 18 counseling programs out of 600 in the United States that have three counseling specializations accredited. The other specializations in the degree program are school counseling and rehabilitation counseling.

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