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Cosmic Discovery at IfA
Using the latest optic technology and high-resolution telescopes, Institute
for Astronomy researchers discovered that previously unidentified space matter
orbiting the Manoa campus was their director Rolf-Peter Kudritzki and his faithful
assistant Nancy Lyttle. (Photo courtesy of a little Halloween fun.)
Hilo Receives STEM Grant
to Benefit Native Hawaiian Students
UH Hilo Professor of Geography Sonia Juvik received a five-year, $2.5 million
STEM (science, engineering, technology and mathematics) grant from the National
Science Foundation to assist Native Hawaiian students interested in the STEM
disciplines.
Juvik is the principal investigator of the project, which will reach out both
at the university level and in grades K-–12 to recruit, train and retain
Native Hawaiian students interested in studying the STEM fields.
"Hawaiians have a depth in history in disciplines such as star-gazing,
the ocean and the land," David Sing, director of Na Pua No‘eau, UH
Hilo’s Center for Gifted and
Talented Native Hawaiian Students said. "Over the years, our educational
curriculum and our way of teaching at the university and schools have not allowed
that kind of history and background to be a part of it. So we're hoping that
this particular grant will provide us with information so the faculty can better
prepare the environment at the university to attract Hawaiian students with
that kind of history and background."
Read
the press release.
Racing on a Rainbow
The blessing for the reopening of the UH Manoa track took place on Tues., Oct.
29 before about 200 dignitaries, coaches, UH athletes and former athletes. The
track features a mondo surface in Rainbow colors—the first two lanes are
medium blue, lanes three and four are green, lanes five and six are yellow and
the outside lanes are mahogany. Construction to refurbish the Cooke Field track
began May 2002. The Rainbow Wahine track season gets underway Jan. 29. Read
the press release.
President Evan Dobelle and UH Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert each run a leg
of a relay around the new UH track. Rainbow Wahine track team members accompanied
them.
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