Dancing Dean Says Farewell

Lynn and Randy Hitz

College of Education Dean Randy Hitz demonstrated his ballroom skills with Hawai‘i Superintendent of Schools Pat Hamamoto as well as his favorite partner, wife Lynn. The musical Hitz also played guitar and serenaded guests at his farewell gathering July 19.

After eight years at Manoa, Hitz will become dean of the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University in Oregon, where he will be closer to family. Read his letter to colleagues in the news release announcing his decision.

The search for a successor is underway. Curriculum Research and Development Director Donald Young will serve as interim dean.

Medical Professors in Named Chairs

Two professors in Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine have been named inaugural occupants of new endowed research chairs.

Elizabeth Tam was appointed to a chair in respiratory health created through major gifts from the American Lung Association of Hawai‘i and the Hawai‘i Community Foundation's Le‘ahi Fund. Marjorie Mau was appointed to the Myron P. Thompson Chair for Research in Native Hawaiian Health, established through a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Read the news release.

Honors and Achievements

Fred Mackenzie

Manoa Professor of Oceanography Fred Mackenzie will receive the 2006 Claire C. Patterson Award from the Geochemical Society during the Goldschmidt Conference in Australia next month. The Patterson Award recognizes innovative breakthroughs that are fundamentally significant to environmental geochemistry.

Manoa Assistant Professor of Pacific Islands Studies Katerina Teaiwa is a research scholar in residence at New Zealand's Macmillan Brown Center through November, working on a manuscript on Banaban phosphate, indigenous relations and the farming industries of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Australia.

Manoa Assistant Professor of Music Thomas Rosenkranz performed Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major with the Indianapolis Symphony in April. He is president of the Honolulu Piano Teachers Association.

Manoa Professor of Law Danielle Conway-Jones will lecture and conduct research at La Trobe University in Melbourne under a 2006–07 Fulbright Senior Scholar award. Read the news release.

John Mount, professor of music at Manoa, sang in all three of the Hawai‘i Opera Theatre's spring productions. He has performed in more than 70 roles with the company.

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Keith Lujan Camacho joins UCLA in a new position as assistant professor in Pacific Islander American studies. He earned his master's and doctorate at Manoa.

Manoa music alumnus Quinn Kelsey was a finalist in the BBC's Singer of the World art song competition in Wales. He was one of just two Americans chosen to compete.

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