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November 7, 2005 |
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Maui Renovates Student Services
The state has released more than $6.7 million to renovate Maui’s Student Service Building. The project includes renovating the interior of the facility to meet current program needs and health and safety concerns, removing corroded railings and hazardous materials, re-roofing, refurbishing the air conditioning system and bringing the facility into accessibility compliance Gov. Linda Lingle presented Maui Chancellor Clyde Sakamoto with a $6,775,000 check to finance the construction costs during a visit to the college, where she met with Sakamoto and toured the student services building.
Researchers Look at Resource Management in the AmazonManoa Professor José Fragoso and Researcher Kirsten Silvius were awarded a $1.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund research to study biodiversity dynamics on indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon. Fieldwork will begin in early 2006 and will focus on hunting practices by the Macuxi ethnic group in Brazil. “We know that indigenous and other local peoples have many ways of managing their resources,” Silvius explains. “These ‘systems’ are not always formalized in the way modern-day wildlife managers or conservation biologists formalize them. Rather, they are expressed in the beliefs, practices and social structures of the societies itself. For example, in many Amazonian societies, shamans and other spiritual leaders make decisions about how many animals should be killed during a hunt, and when the hunt should take place. This is an effective form of hunting management.”
Anthropologist Studies Kamehameha
Michael Graves, professor and chair of the Manoa’s anthropology department, is part of a research team that was awarded a $100,000 grant to conduct archeological research on Kamehameha the Great. Graves and Kehaunani Cachola-Abad, a graduate affiliate faculty and cultural specialist at Kamehameha Schools, received the three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project will involve archival and archaeological research, documenting sources associated with North Kohala on the Big Island. This is the area where Kamehameha was born, spent much of his youth, and established himself as innovative and effective leader during his rise to power. Cachola-Abad will also collect oral traditions and other historical accounts detailing the strategies employed by Kamehameha.
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Linda Lingle presents Chancellor Clyde Sakamoto with a check for
the renovation to Maui’s Student Service Building.
Manoa’s
School of Law has been named one of the “Best Law Schools” in
Princeton Review. The school was ranked second when it comes to
having the Best Environment for Minority Students, and closed out
the top five with the Most Diverse Faculty. For more information,
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