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December 5, 2005 |
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Statement from President McClain
Interim President David McClain released a statement on Nov. 28 saying that he does not intend to actively pursue the UH presidency. “As citizens of this university’s community for the last 15 years, Wendie and I have been grateful for the opportunity to lead UH, and have found the experience to be very fulfilling,” says McClain. “Still, there are other goals we’d like to try to achieve, some of a personal nature and some which are professional and community-based. We’ve concluded that we cannot make a full term, seven-year commitment to this university. “The university’s progress during my tenure as interim president owes much to the encouragement of the community at large, as well as to the support of a dedicated and talented cadre of vice presidents, chancellors, faculty and staff, and of course our students. A sincere mahalo nui loa to all of them.”
New Properties in Plastics DiscoveredPlastic foam is an every day fact of life, performing a wide range of tasks in packaging, cushioning, support and construction. But suppose there was a material that could exhibit all the advantages of lightweight foam but also had tremendous strength and flexibility. Manoa Professor Anyuan Cao and a team of researchers discovered such attributes in a commonly known micro-material called carbon nanotubes. Their findings were published in the Nov. 25 issue of Science. “Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules about 50,000 times thinner than the human hair, yet exhibit incredible tensile strength,” explains Cao. “We have shown for the first time that when you align a huge number of nanotubes and grow them like a forest, they create a highly resilient structure that can be compressed down to 15 percent of its original thickness and still spring back to its original shape once the pressure is removed.”
Travel Industry Management One of World’s Best
“Prior to the TedQual program the TIM school at UH Manoa was one of the first university programs recognized by WTO,” says Dean Walter Jamieson, “and, in fact, only 16 institutions internationally were ever recognized in this way. |
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Manoa School of Travel Industry Management is one of only two U.S.
institutions out of 13 internationally-recognized tourism education
schools included in the World’s Leading Tourist Programmes directory
published by the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The
directory was prepared as part of the WTO’s TedQual (tourism,
education, quality) certification process.
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