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February
2004
UH
Waikiki Aquarium marks 100 years
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
One of Waikiki’s hottest visitor attractions is a part of the University
of Hawai‘i. Celebrations this month mark the institution’s first
100 years.
UH
astronomers score again
West
Hawai‘i Today
Using a UH telescope on Mauna Kea, astronomers have found the nearest example
of a young planet - forming star.
UH
Manoa widens research into aging
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The Chancellor plans to reorganize the gerontology center and move it to a
new home, while giving it new resources and a broader mission.
UH Highlights – from astronomer astronauts to zoology
Malamalama
The latest issue of the UH magazine is
full of information about the people and programs that keep the university
at the forefront of our state’s vitality.
UH
travel program reinventing itself
Pacific
Business News
The UH Manoa School of Travel Industry Management will invigorate its curriculum,
expand research and outreach efforts and provide new revenue-generating services
to industry stakeholders as a part of its new strategic plan.
Senators
hear about UH cancer research
Honolulu
Advertiser
Speaking at a Congressional hearing, president Dobelle says a new cancer center
could be a world leader in studying the disease among Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders and military personnel based in Hawai'i.
UH gets $600,000 gift for teahouse
Honolulu
Advertiser
Plans are under way to build a Shi Wu Tea Lodge at the UH Lyon Arboretum as
a tranquil gathering place for cultural activities, thanks to internationally
known artist and UH Professor Emeritus Tseng Yuho “Betty” Ecke.
Longtime
coach retiring
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The countdown to the end of an era has begun. After two decades of coaching
the Rainbow Wahine basketball team, Vince Goo said this will be his last season.
Major
gift for UH Hilo
Honolulu
Star Bulletin, West
Hawai‘i Today
A record-setting private contribution of $2.4 million from a Big Isle couple
will fund scholarships.
Alien coral threatens black coral industry
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
A beautiful but deadly alien coral has exploded in abundance and is spreading
in the Au Au Channel between Maui and Lana‘i, according to a University
of Hawai‘i oceanographer.
The
jelly project
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The Maui Culinary Academy at Maui Community College has converted trash into
treasure; fertilizer into food product; and even compost into cuisine—to
develop Maui Raspberry Wine Jelly, a product that associate professor Chris
Speere claims can be found nowhere else on earth.
Oceanographer
receives Pew Grant
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
UH scientist Craig Smith won the Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship for a project
to design marine-protected areas in international waters.
Visiting
Jurist takes time out
Honolulu
Advertiser
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paddled a canoe, jumped into
gentle seas off Waikiki in a blue bathing suit and swam with sea turtles — all
as part of the annual Jurists-In-Residence program at the University of Hawai‘i
William S. Richardson School of Law.
UH
Hilo aquaculture center receives funding
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Big Island center is designed to boost marine science and aquaculture study
and research, and to encourage commercial aquaculture, fisheries and eco-tourism.
Manoa
plan to reinstate public health programs draw praise
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert’s initiatives to revive the School
of Public Health have the support of the school’s alumni professionals.
UH
chosen for ocean health grant
Honolulu
Star Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
University of Hawai‘i oceanographers and medical specialists will pool
their expertise in a $6.7 million, five-year program to investigate the relationship
between the oceans and human health.
When “stuff
it” takes on a whole new meaning
The
Garden Island
Chef Heinz Hornicke visited with culinary arts students at Kaua‘i Community
College earlier this month. Reporter Dennis Fujimoto watched him in action.
Mainland
move pays off
Honolulu
Advertiser
When Leilehua Maly, Crystal Kaneshiro and Neal Flaherty moved from Hilo to Seattle,
they went on faith. None of the three, who graduated last year from the University
of Hawai‘i-Hilo, had a job.
Two
more moons!
Honolulu
Advertiser
During the past three years, a team led by UH astronomer David Jewitt and graduate
student Scott Sheppard has identified 46 of the 63 known moons — also
known as satellites — orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar
system.
UH
to fast-track revival of public health school
Honolulu
Advertiser
With a wealth of federal money becoming available for research in bioterrorism
and other global health challenges, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa chancellor
Peter Englert is fast-tracking re-establishment of a School of Global and Public
Health on the Manoa campus. The paper’s editorial
staff supports this effort.
College
students seek deals as text costs rise
Honolulu
Advertiser
While most Hawai‘i students still find shopping for textbooks quick and
easy at campus bookstores, others are cruising the Internet for deals on used
as well as new books, or working out inventive ways to cut costs.
Longtime
UH economic professor remembered
Honolulu
Advertiser
In 1954, Leong returned to Hawai‘i from Washington, D.C., and taught
business economics and statistics at the University of Hawai‘i, where
he served as the economics department chairman from 1959 to 1967. He retired
in 1968, but continued to work as a professor emeritus for several years.
Seawater
to cool medical school
Honolulu
Advertiser
A saltwater technology that could change the way buildings on O‘ahu are
air-conditioned and save money, electricity and natural resources is being proposed
by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply for the John A. Burns School of Medicine
under construction in Kaka‘ako.
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