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April
2004
Students
with passion for fashion take to the runway
Honolulu
Star Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
On view in a fashion final: more than 120 original creations ranging from aloha
to street to evening wear, along with lines dubbed "China Doll," "Diamonds
in the Sand," "VIP," etc., created by graduating Honolulu CC design
students.
Student manages UH stock portfolio
Honolulu
Advertiser
Twenty-one-year-old UH Manoa business major Lexi Novitske heads the team managing
a multimillion-dollar stock portfolio that benefits the entire student body — and
increased in value by more than $1 million this year.
Music helps reduce stress
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
UH music professor Art Harvey has taught for 45 years and studied music as a
force in education, religion and health. For the past 20 years, he has been interested
in learning more about “why and what happens” when music is played.
Showing
off Maui CC chefs
Maui
News
Maui Community College culinary arts students got a first hand taste of deadline
pressures in a busy kitchen as they whipped up edible masterpieces in the Garde-Manger
Skills Challenge.
Hunting for asteroids
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
UH astronomers are developing a telescope array for either Haleakala or Mauna
Kea that would search the skies for earth-bound asteroids.
UH Manoa stages Nozaki Village
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star Bulletin
Kabuki returned to the Kennedy Theatre stage last week after a four-year absence
as the UH-Manoa Theatre and Dance Department presents a story of love, lust
and “all the crazy things people do to deal with both.”
UH fashion students prepare for final
show
Honolulu
Advertiser
Preparing for their senior final fashion show, seven soon-to-be-graduates of
the UH Manoa apparel product design and merchandising program were clearly
focused on the future.
UH
scientists discover oldest ancestors of hemoglobin
Honolulu
Star Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
A team of University of Hawai'i scientists has discovered the earliest known
ancestors of hemoglobin, which brings science closer to identifying the earliest
life forms to use oxygen.
UH
business students bring new depth to internships
Honolulu
Advertiser
Seventeen UH graduate and undergraduate business students are working directly
with the heads of small companies this semester to learn — and to contribute
their own energy and ideas.
Hawai‘i
CC professor: biology up close
Hawai‘i
Tribune-Herald
Biology professor Laura Brezinsky is currently aboard the 215-foot NOAA fisheries
research ship Miller Freeman, working with scientists on a “fisheries-oceanography
investigations” cruise in waters off Alaska.
Opening
the doors . . . to discovery
Honolulu
Advertiser
Jim Harwood, a retired UH professor of astronomy and lifelong enthusiast of
the night sky, said he gets plenty of questions about backyard observing from
amateur stargazers.
UH
Marketing student creates surf school, fashion line
Florida
Today
Apalila, which is Hawaiian for April, is the name of UH marketing student April
Grover's new company that covers aims at the surf culture.
A kick start for campus life
Honolulu
Advertiser
Here’s a proposal to bring to UH Manoa’s 3,000 dorm residents the
College Town action that students have long sought as part of the campus.
Celebrating the lives of donors
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
The willed body program is an indispensable part of the education program for
students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Finding a fix for global warming
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
UH scientists join in a study to see if small ocean plants can help absorb
carbon dioxide.
Making
a game of it
Honolulu
Advertiser
Developing a digital media production climate in Hawai‘i is the vision
of the UH Academy for Creative Media—and it’s moving from vision
to production in at least one area.
Mahalo
to UH benefactors
The
Garden Island
A visit by University of Hawai‘i President Dr. Evan Dobelle highlighted
the Fourth Annual Scholarship Reception hosted by KCC officials at their fine-dining
facility last week.
Meanwhile, UHH students will also
benefit from scholarships
Honolulu
Star Bulletin
The gift of an endowment from a Hilo couple is one of the largest private donations
ever to UH—with the hope that scholarships will help to recruit and retain
students.
The
university’s new medicine man
Hawai‘i
Business Magazine
A world-class researcher returns to UH Manoa to establish an Asia-Pacific Institute
for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
UH
Hilo reaching out to lifelong learners
Hawai‘i
Tribune-Herald
The San Francisco-based Osher Foundation will fund a Hilo campus initiative
to extend the reach of its continuing education programs.
UH
Manoa grad programs ranked nationally
Honolulu
Advertiser
US News & World Report has issued its rankings for the nation’s best
graduate schools, and four UH Manoa programs show up among the leaders.
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