August 7, 2006

Web Source on Hawai‘i’s Older Adults Created

The UH Center on the Family and the Hawai‘i Executive Office on Aging launched a web-based Data Center on Hawai‘i’s Aging—the first of its kind in the nation. The data center provides the most comprehensive collection of data and publications relating to Hawai‘i’s elderly.

Statistics on the demographics, health, living conditions and other characteristics of the senior population have been gathered from federal and state sources. In addition, the website contains bibliographies or abstracts of more than 600 publications, including printable files of about a third of them, on long-term care, housing, caregiving and other subjects with a Hawai‘i focus. Read more.

New Center Explores Marine Microbes

Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology has created the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, which will embark on a decade-long mission focused on the microbial inhabitants of the sea. C-MORE, which will receive approximately $19 million from the National Science Foundation, will facilitate collaborations among the previously separate disciplines of oceanography, microbiology, ecology and genomics. This new alliances will enable a deeper understanding of the seas, including its potential response to global environmental variability and climate change. Read the news release.

$1 Million Fellowship at JABSOM

Barry and Virginia Weinman have created a $1 million fellowship program for students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. The Barry and Virginia Weinman Fellowship assists UH medical students who plan to intern and practice in Hawai‘i. The fellowships are for tuition and fees during four continuous years of study and cover about $90,000 of the student’s costs. Three students—Kristine Layugan, Bradlee Sako and Joshua Hvidding have qualified for the fellowships and all were raised in Hawai‘i. Read more.

Native Hawaiian Law Advances New Programs

Manoa’s School of Law received a federal grant of $1.2 million to continue the work of the Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. The center is using a portion of these funds to launch fellowship programs that support students and recent graduates in their research, scholarly writing and discourse on Native Hawaiian law.

The Post-Juris Doctor Research Fellowship Program enables recent law graduates to undertake cutting-edge research and to publish works. The Post-Juris Doctor Community Outreach Fellowship Program supports the development of outreach programs for the Native Hawaiian community. Read the new release.

News@UH Gets New Look

News@UH will be on a break next week and will return on Aug. 21 with a new look.

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