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October
2003
Skipping the hard questions helps feed
the homeless
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH law school students have been able to get away without answering tough
questions in class for a week, but in the process they’re contributing
to the Institute for Human Services homeless shelter.
UH
wins competitive grant to help rebuild Iraq
Honolulu
Advertiser
Here’s another look at the Higher Education and Development partnership
in which UH will participate to help modernize Iraq’s institutions of
higher education as well as stimulate economic growth and agricultural sustainability.
The GEL-Wahine shoe now on the market
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Rainbow Wahine Volleyball Team steps out—in its own team-named shoe!
Sea water system saves money and energy
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
Engineers have come up with a plan to use cold deep sea water as the chilling
agent in the air conditioning system for the new UH medical school complex
in Kaka‘ako.
Stopping
the attack of the red-brown algae
Maui
News
Over the years, a huge quantity of seaweed has washed ashore on a smelly, mile-long
hot spot along the southern shore of Maui. A new federal grant will help UH
researchers discover its source, and buy some equipment to haul it away
UH
to help rebuild Iraqi university
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The University of Mosul was one of the Middle East's most prestigious institutions
in the early '90s. Two Gulf Wars later, a team of University of Hawai‘i researchers
hopes to help the university rebuild.
UH proposal would chart all the world’s
reef systems
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
University of Hawaii scientists hope to have a camera on the International Space
Station by December 2004 to begin mapping the world's coral reefs.
Stalking
solar storms
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The UH Institute for Astronomy Mees Solar Observatory atop Haleakala on Maui
has been observing unusual activity on the sun such as two giant spots, explosive
flares and a strong geomagnetic storm.
Astronomers say bigger is better
Honolulu
Advertiser
Millions of dollars are about to be spent on studies preparing the way for
what will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever built, and scientists
at the University of Hawai'i hope to lure the project to Mauna Kea.
Progress
report – med school rising
Pacific
Business News
Here’s a look at where construction stands at the Kaka‘ako
campus for the John A. Burns School of Medicine along with an additional
story about
a photonics
firm that is relocating nearby to take advantage of the high tech community
it expects to be built in the area. The PBN editorial points
to the potential for biomedical sciences at Kaka‘ako.
UH
People: Susan Schultz presses on
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
Tinfish Press specializes in publishing writings of Pacific-based authors and
poets. Right now the press is in the good hands of a UH English professor.
$2.2
million for UH Hilo Hawaiian programs
Hawai‘i
Tribune-Herald
The US Department of Education grant will fund a natural and environmental
science "pathway" program for Native Hawaiian students entering high
school this academic year.
Fresh
food, fun and good fortune for farmers
Honolulu
Advertiser
The farmers’ market at Kapi‘olani CC has been a huge success. That
concept and the culinary arts are seen as potential visitor destinations or
experiences
The
students are all related!
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Laimana family has taken on a “project” as no one else before
them has done—at Windward Community College.
Business
is booming—and that’s a problem
Honolulu
Advertiser
An expected boom in construction activity for the state in the next few years
means more demand for critical skills teaching in Honolulu Community College
apprentice programs.
Million dollar grant supports photonics
research
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
In a nutshell, photonics converts light signals to electrical signals for communications
and myriad other purposes—and a grant to the College of Engineering advances
teaching and research at UH Manoa.
UH honors award winning teaching
and research
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
At a Kennedy Theatre convocation this month, President Dobelle presented awards
for excellence in teaching and research and for outstanding service at campuses
throughout the UH system.
UH
research grants at record levels
Honolulu
Advertiser
Research funding at the University of Hawai‘i jumped by $89 million dollars
over the past two years —a substantial increase that caps more than a
decade of steady growth.
Researchers
surveying regular consumers of the Pacific Island drink
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The weekend’s event at the UH Lyon Arboretum has come and gone, but
UH scientists are still working to measure the effects of kava consumption
on those
who drink it.
More moons in astronomical inventory
Astronomy
Magazine
Uranus and Neptune each get one more moon as UH astronomers recover small satellites
that were once lost but are now found.
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