UH
System Sees 4.7 Percent Increase in Enrollment
Preliminary
enrollment figures show that the UH System had a 4.7 percent increase
in enrollment or 2,288 additional students this fall as compared
to last fall. The total number of UH students system-wide now stands
at 50,765. It is expected that another 29,000 students will be
enrolling in non-credit programs throughout the system, bringing
the total enrollment to more than 79,000.
Seven of the UH campuses experienced growth.
• UH Hilo—8.8 percent increase
• Windward CC—6.9
percent increase
• Leeward CC—6.8
percent increase
• UH Manoa—5.5 percent
increase
• Kapi‘olani CC—6.3
percent increase
• Hawai‘i CC—2
percent increase
• Honolulu CC—.7
percent increase
Read
the press release.
UH
Researchers Discover a Key to Diversity of Animal Life Forms
UH scientists Patricia Lee,
Mark Q. Martindale and Heinz Gert de Couet
and University of Houston researcher Patrick
Callaerts have discovered how squid develop some of their unique
features. The first to examine Hox genes in squid, researchers
found that this set of normally predictable genes present in animals,
from flies to humans, is utilized in entirely different ways when
it comes to squid. This finding is vastly different from the conventional
view of the role of these genes in other animals. It gives scientists
a key to understanding how an animal’s body plan is shaped
by evolution, and how the same set of genes, when used differently,
may give rise to the diversity of life forms that are observed
today. Their findings were reported in the journal Nature.
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more about it.
Library
Receives Valuable Addition to Japanese Collection
The UH Manoa Library received a rare gift to its Asian collections—a limited
edition 22-volume set of Kobo Daishi Bokuseki Shushu, the complete works of Kobo
Daishi, founder of the Shingon Sect of Buddhism. The gift was presented at a
ceremony by Reverend Ryujo Fujita of the Kawasaki Daishi Temple, one of the largest
Buddhist temples in Japan. Daishi, also known as Kukai, is a famous calligrapher
and is said to have invented (on the model of Sanskrit) hiragana, the syllabary
in which, in combination with Chinese characters, Japanese is written. Read
the press release.
Ice Scream,
You Scream
For the 18th year, the UHM College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources welcomed students, faculty and staff to the new
school year with an ice-cream
social and good-natured games. Contestants, from left, included ice-cream
eating contest winner Aurelian Douette, a graduate student in bioengineering;
undergraduate
Alyssa Watanabe, a student employee in the academic and student affairs office; Kathleen
Vickers, publication and information office writer; Andrew
Hashimoto as Dean Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde and costume contest winner Tomoaki
Miura, faculty member from natural resource and environmental
management.
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