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President
Addresses Chamber of Commerce:
Pledges to Build Hawai‘i’s Future Through the University
 UH
President Evan S. Dobelle addressed the annual membership meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce of Hawai‘i last week. The president outlined initiatives for
the next year, and pledged to accomplish four things:
• a
stable, accountable, community-engaged revenue base that will provide for the
aspirations of scholars and the health of the state;
• a
true global presence for the university—bringing the world to Hawai‘i
and Hawai‘i to the world;
•
work in progress on the UH medical school’s Health and Wellness Center
in Kaka‘ako; and
•
partnership with the State Department of Education to create the outlines of
a Pre-K through 20 integrated system of learning.
Click here to
read the president’s remarks or watch the video.
July
Board of Regents Meeting Report
At the Board of Regents’ July 19 meeting the following recommendations
were acted on:
•Elected
Bert A. Kobayashi BOR chair for next year and Everett R. Dowling vice chair
•
Reappointed Arthur Hoke and James Kennedy to second, four-year terms on the
Mauna Kea Management Board (terms expiring June 30, 2006)
•
Established a bachelor of science degree in marine biology in the College of
Natural Sciences, UH Manoa (effective fall 2002)
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Established an internal loan for the student housing cabling project
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Entered into a five-year lease agreement with Dave Levenson for office, classroom
and educational exhibit space to be used by UH Hilo and the Northwestern Hawaiian
Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
•
Entered into a lease agreement with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
for office, research and teaching space at Kaka‘ako to be used by the School
of Medicine
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Extended the existing agreement for services with UH Foundation for two months
(effective August 1)
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Entered into a lease agreement with Geo International Explorer, Inc. for the
development of the U.S.-China Center at UH Hilo.
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Established an Office of Capital Improvements for UH
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Accepted a report on gifts, grants and contracts received by the UH System for
the period of May 16, 2002 to June 15, 2002—received 160 awards totaling
$30.3 million, compared to 136 awards totaling $21.4 million for the same period
last year; the total number of awards received for the fiscal year is 1,535
with a value of $237.7 million
See the press
release for more information.
Faculty/Staff Football
Season Tickets Available
University faculty, staff and students can purchase UH Manoa football season
tickets beginning August 3. For complete ticket information click
here.
Prestigious Journal Finds
a Home at Medical School
The John A. Burns School
of Medicine has been selected as the new home for Ecosystem Health,
the leading international journal for integrative research on the relationship
between the health of ecosystems, human health and sustainability.
Ecosystem health is a newly emerging transdisciplinary field focusing the relationship
between the condition of ecosystems, including developed urban and rural environments
as well as natural ecosystems, and the health and well being of human populations.
The journal includes peer-reviewed articles on global change and human health,
emerging infectious disease, conservation medicine, ecosystem management and
sustainability, and ethics and social equity.
Bruce
Wilcox, professor and chair of the medical school’s new Division of
Ecology and Health, will be the journal’s editor-in-chief. "The choice
to relocate the journal here was made largely as result of the commitment demonstrated
both by the medical school and the university to innovation and leadership in
the fields of environment, medicine, health and sustainability," Wilcox
said. More information
Regents and Presidential
Scholarship Recipients
Honored
The university honored recipients of 2002 Regents and Presidential Scholarships
at a dinner on July 18. Presidential Scholarships were awarded to 10 college
juniors who had a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.7 for all college level work,
a record of sustained progress in academic courses and evidence of superior
academic achievement or creative endeavor. Regents Scholarships were awarded
to 20 outstanding freshmen who scored at least 1,300 combined mathematics and
verbal scores on the Scholastic Assessment Test, maintained at least a 3.5 GPA
in academic subjects in high school and whose extracurricular achievements are
shown to be remarkable. Click
here for a complete list of award recipients.
Dawn Nakagawa, 2002 Regents Scholar, with her parents, Debbie and Dean Nakagawa,
and Dean Randy Hitz from the College of Education. Debbie works in the Commumnity
College Chancellor's Office.
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