Research
Vice Chancellor Finalists Selected
Two finalists have been selected for UH Manoa Vice Chancellor for Research and
Graduate Education.
• Bruce
Margon, associate director for science in the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his BA in astrophysics
from Columbia University and MA and PhD in astronomy from the University
of California, Berkeley.
• Gary
Ostrander, associate provost for research at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his BS in biology
at Seattle University, MA in biology at Illinois State University
and PhD in ocean and fisheries science from the University of Washington.
For more information visit the search
Web site or read the press
release.
Holoholo Memorial
Rededicated
A memorial for UH scientists Michael Allen, Robert
Harvey and Gary Niemeyer,
who were lost when the M/V Holoholo disappeared in December 1978, was
rededicated on Fri., Jan. 23. The scientists, along with seven others, left Snug
Harbor on Dec. 9 to conduct research and failed to rendezvous at Kawaihae Harbor
on Dec. 11.
Shortly after their disappearance the university community planted three gold
trees in their memory at HIG, however, the trees were damaged by construction
of the POST building. With funds from friends and colleagues and donated labor
by Manoa groundskeepers, a new garden was created in time to mark the 25th anniversary
of the tragedy.
P-20
Initiative Awards $180,000
The Hawai‘i P-20 Initiative,
a joint education project of UH, the Department of Education, and the Good Beginnings
Alliance, has awarded $180,000 to eight collaborative learning efforts throughout
the state. The awards were made to innovative partnerships that have demonstrated
an ability to work with their communities in order to improve the quality of
education. Grants were awarded to the DOE Consortium of Eight Model High Schools,
GEAR UP Hawai‘i at UHM, Kealakehe Elementary School, UH Center on the Family,
UHM Service Learning Program, Tech Prep Hawai‘i, UH Community College’s
Consortium on Early Childhood Education Programs and Family Support Services
of West Hawai‘i. Read
the press release.
Academy
for Creative Media Receives $100,000
UH Foundation received a $100,000 gift from Roy and Hilda Takeyama, local business
and community leaders, to establish a fund to provide direct support for students
enrolled in the university’s Academy for Creative Media. The Roy and Hilda
Takeyama Foundation Fund supports ACM’s interdisciplinary, inter-campus
initiative to develop a comprehensive, world class creative media program focusing
on Hawai‘i, Asia and Pacific themes. Read
more about it.
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