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Strong
Bond Ratings for Health and Wellness Center
UH has earned strong
ratings by three national financial rating agencies for the issuance of $150-million
in series 2002A revenue bonds to finance construction of the medical school’s
health and wellness center at Kaka‘ako.
"I welcome this great news for the university and for the Health and Wellness
Center project," said Wick Sloane, chief financial officer. "The ratings
recognize the inherent strengths of the university and also reflect a belief
that the medical school and cancer research center will be a vital component
in the state’s economic development." More
information
Father’s
Day Special: Profile of a Talented UH Father-Son Duo
Meet Snowden
and Michael Hodges, a unique father-son pair who work on different sides of
the Ko‘olau mountains and specialize in fields that seem a world apart.
Snowden, a Wondward CC art professor, and Michael, an information technology
expert, share admiration and affection. Read
their profile.
Student Information
Network Vendor Selected
The university
has chosen SCT to implement a system-wide student information network. SCT Banner
is scheduled to be operational, including online registration, at all the community
college campuses in time for the fall 2002 semester
With Banner, the university’s nearly 45,000 students will be able to move
across the various campuses but still be treated as individual students within
one system, said Alan Yang, UH dean of student services. Currently, the university
has four separate computer systems controlling student information, and transferring
information between campuses is not an automatic process. With Banner, UH campuses
will share one database.
"As a company, SCT has moved very far toward not just having a student
information system that is about registration, but about how you use student
information to empower the students," said John Morton, director of the
Student Information System project. More
information
11 New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered
 UH
astronomers announced the discovery of 11 new satellites of Jupiter. These new
satellites, when added to the 11 discovered the previous year by the Hawai‘i
team, bring the total of known Jupiter satellites to 39, more than any other
planet.
A team led by Scott S. Sheppard and David Jewitt from the Institute for Astronomy
and Jan Kleyna of Cambridge University discovered the new satellites. They used
the Canada-France-Hawai‘i (3.6 meter) telescope with one of the largest
digital imaging cameras in the world to obtain sensitive images of a wide area
around Jupiter. The satellites were formally announced by the International
Astronomical Union on Circular No. 7900 on May 16, 2002. More
information
New MA and BS Degrees at Hilo
The
Board of Regents approved the establishment of a master of arts degree in counseling
psychology and changed the status of the bachelor of science degree in biology
at UH Hilo.
"The overall mission of the proposed master of arts program in counseling
psychology is to offer student-centered, cross-cultural graduate training in
counseling psychology," said Chancellor Rose Tseng. The MA program begins
fall 2003.
The status for the bachelor of science degree in biology, which offers advanced
coursework in chemistry, physics and mathematics, was changed from provisional
to established. The biology department currently offers a bachelor of arts degree
with a track in cell and molecular biology (CMB) and ecology, evolutionary biology
and conservation biology (EECB). More
information
Phi
Theta Kappa Chapters Shine
The community college’s Phi Theta Kappa chapters had a lot to celebrate
at their International Convention in Nashville—they brought home six international
awards and three chapters were ranked in the "Top 100 Chapters." With
more than 1,300 chapters in Phi Theta Kappa this was an impressive honor for
Honolulu CC’s Alpha Kappa Iota, Kapi‘olani CC’s Alpha Kappa Psi
and Windward CC’s Alpha Lamda Theta.
The Pacific Region
also presented 1,001 red, white and blue origami cranes to the New York Region
in commemoration of the September 11 tragedy.
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