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November
2004
Student collects computers for Samoa
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH graduate student Shawn Barnes started an effort called “Aloha Computers
for Education in Samoa” that collects used computers in working condition
and ships them out to schools in Western Samoa.
New Hilo business incubator opens
Pacific
Business News
The Hawaii Innovation Center, the state’s newest business incubator,
owned and operated by UH Hilo, opened last week and will provide clients with
business development by offering a wide range of incubation services.
New
home for Hawaiʻi CC?
Hawaiʻi Tribune Herald
A proposed new home for Hawai’i Community College would cover 122 acres
and feature a 150-foot-wide central courtyard, according to a recently released
plan.
CBA
names new dean
Ka
Leo o Hawaiʻi
V. Vance Roley has been named the new dean of UH Manoa’s College of Business
Administration.
UH
scientist joins polar studies
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Margo Edwards, a UH marine-geology researcher, joins a team of Swedish researchers
on the coast guard’s icebreaker Healey for their upcoming trek to the
polar north.
UHERO
projects growth in 2005
Pacific
Business News, Kauaʻi
Garden Island News
A report released by the UH Economic Research Organization shows Hawaiʻi’s
economic growth looks even better in 2005.
Humble beginnings drives CEO
New
York Daily News
Dick Parsons, UHAA distinguished alum and CEO of AOL Time Warner, continues
to keep his humble beginnings a part of his high-powered career.
Wahine
advance to NCAA tournament
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Rainbow Wahine volleyball team continued their winning ways by earning
the automatic bid to NCAA
tournament play.
Windward
CC teaches cooking, life lessons
Honolulu
Advertiser
Through Windward CC’s 17-week culinary program, high school students
not only learn how to cook, but they gain life lessons as well.
Regents approve $340M for construction
projects
Honolulu
Advertiser
The UH Board of Regents has cleared the way for $340 million or more in construction
over the next four years, including work for Phase I of a West Oʻahu campus
in Kapolei, new or renovated dorms at Manoa and a new Cancer Research Center
in Kakaʻako.
UH space program one of its kind
Chemical & Engineering
News
Reaction Dynamics, a new astrochemistry graduate program at UH, provides tropical
home for studying reactions of cold interstellar space.
Community pulls together for library
Library
Journal
UH librarians at Hamilton Library get their spirits boosted with the support
of the community.
New accounting facility opens at UH
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawaiʻi's College of Business and PriceWaterhouseCoopers
have collaborated to build an advanced-technology center at the School of Accountancy.
UH
Foundation names 2005 officers
Pacific
Business News
Retired First Hawaiian Bank Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Howard
Karr was elected chairman of the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation's board
of trustees for fiscal 2005. The foundation’s trustees also elected Bert
Kobayashi, vice chairman; Faye Kurren, vice chairwoman; Allan Landon, treasurer;
and James Wo, secretary to serve on the board next year.
UH
faculty make crafts a family affair
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
George Tanabe, UH religion professor, wife Willa Tanabe, chair of the UH Art
Department, and family continue their longstanding tradition of creating handcrafted
items.
Hamilton
Library offers limited library services
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Hamilton Library take steps to offer limited library services by implementing
a paging system for UH students, faculty and staff to request and borrow normal
circulation items.
Creating an energy efficient sense
of place
Hawaiʻi
Electric Company
UH architecture professor Stephen Meder is working with HECO and the UH Sea
Grant program to “find strategies that help minimize the environmental
foot print and increase the quality of life in communities.”
CTAHR specialist new garden writer
Honolulu
Advertiser
Jari Sugano, extension specialist with UH’s College of Tropical Agriculture
and Human Resources, will provide her expertise on fruits and vegetables as
one of three new garden columnists for the Honolulu Advertiser.
UH music professor moved by wartime
hero
Palo
Alto Weekly
A story about a Japanese-American who spent three years as a prisoner-of-war
in Siberia has touched UH music professor Takeo Kudo to write an orchestral
piece about it. Kudo and the wartime hero will meet for the first time at an
honorary concert this month.
Ka
Imu Ola a new/old tradition at Hawaiʻi CC
Hawaiʻi
Tribune-Herald
Student chefs at Hawaiʻi CC put their culinary skills to the test while
also raising funds to defray costs for a culinary trip to Las Vegas.
Timmy
Chang makes history
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Warriors quarterback Timmy Chang became college football’s career
passing yardage leader this weekend, surpassing Ty Detmer's NCAA 1990 record.
Conflicting
views of reef-fish colors
Science
News
UH scientists contribute their findings to understand the phenomena of the
colors in reef-fish.
UH
alumnus wins national award
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Manoa graduate and Mililani High School teacher Robert Hu received a $10,000
Mann-NEA Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, and is one of five national
finalists who will go on to compete for the $25,000 National Education Association
Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. He was also previously honored as
2004 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year.
Black history draws UH focus
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
An international conference at the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa will look
at the history of African Americans in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific and aims
to bring together diverse peoples and interests.
Kakaako will be hub of research work
Pacific
Business News
As the opening of UH’s new med school in Kakaʻako nears, a federal
study says there is a measurable advantage to putting a lot of researchers
in one place because one person's work affects another's, particularly in medical
research and development.
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