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January
2005
Mortimer was passionate advocate
for UH
Pacific
Business News, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
Lori Mortimer, wife of the former University of Hawaiʻi president
Kenneth Mortimer, is remembered for her devotion to the arts and to the
university.
Kauaʻi
students, parents learn about Running Start
Kauaʻi
Garden Island
Students and parents learn about the Running Start program offered at Kauaʻi
Community College, which allows high school juniors and seniors to take college
courses for credit.
Bike
racks get artsy
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawaiʻi College of Education in partnership with public,
private, charter schools and VSA Hawaiʻi-Pacific, will sponsor the “Honolulu
Hot Wheels” program from March to June, allowing high school students
to design and paint 300 city bike racks that various businesses can support
for a $1,000 tax-deductible contribution.
Kennedy
Theatre stages Indonesian treat
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Kennedy Theatre presents "Luck and Loss: Manandin's Gamble,” a music
and dance performance of the randai, described as "the traditional folk
dance-drama of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra." The UH student
performance opened this weekend and continues on Feb. 4, 5 and 6.
Volcano professor remembered
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
George P.L. Walker, former University of Hawaiʻi professor and world-renowned
volcanologist, is remembered for his research on understanding how basaltic
volcanoes grow.
UH
plans to increase tuition waivers
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawaiʻi officials plan to quadruple tuition waivers so needy
students are not priced out of a college education by tuition increases, says
interim President David McClain.
MCC oral health program approved
Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawaiʻi
Board of Regents this month approved the Maui Oral Health Center, a new oral
health program for dental assistants at Maui Community College.
UH receives strong responses for
dorm developers
Pacific
Business News
Eleven private developers have responded to the university’s request
for qualifications to build student housing on the Manoa campus.
UH
expert monitors Egyptian mummies
Honolulu
Advertiser
DeWolfe Miller, UH Medical School professor of epidemiology, is not only key
in finding out how King Tut, Egypt’s most famous mummy, was murdered,
but also an important player in researching health and disease in ancient Egypt
by scanning hundreds of 3,000-year-old mummies.
Mapping Hawaiʻi’s cataclysmic
future
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (part
1) (part
2)
UH researchers try to map out Hawaiʻi’s cataclysmic future in order
prepare the state should tsunamis and earthquakes occur.
Leadership
improves at UH
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
A follow up report of UH by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
showed dramatic improvements since the accrediting team’s visit to the
school last March.
UH hosts ag conference
Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawaiʻi and other federal and state agencies are hosting
the 4th Biennial Ag-tourism in Hawaiʻi Conference, Jan. 24-29 at various
locations throughout the state. The conference will focus on increasing profits
for small farms.
Hamilton
Library rescues history from flood
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Hamilton Library staff and conservation experts from the mainland and New Zealand
libraries combine efforts to help restore damaged maps and photographs from
the Oct. 30 floods.
UH
begins work on Kula astronomy lab
The Maui News
The University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy broke ground
Friday on a new research center and laboratory in Kula that will have a key
role in attracting more cutting-edge astronomy projects and technology to Maui.
Four
UH honorees named “living treasures”
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Momi Cazimero, former UH regent, Thomas Klobe, UH art professor, Isabella Aiona
Abbott, former UH professor, and Dr. Benjamin B.C. Young, executive director
of the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence at the UH John A. Burns School
of Medicine, are among six Hawaiʻi residents named "living treasures
of Hawaiʻi" for their contributions in culture and the arts.
Lingle
backs autonomy for UH
Pacific
Business News, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
Gov. Linda Lingle last week announced that she will propose greater autonomy
for the University of Hawaiʻi during the legislative session.
High hopes in store for new med school
Pacific
Business News, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
High hopes are in store for Kaka’ako’s emerging biotech industry
as the new John A Burns Medical School opened its first building last week.
The new campus officially opens in April.
Noted
UH researcher remembered
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Hampton L. Carson, professor emeritus of genetics and molecular biology
at the University of Hawaiʻi, is remembered for his evolutionary genetics with
native Hawaiʻi fruit flies that brought him international recognition.
Hamilton
Library Addition reopens to public
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH Manoa welcomes students back for the spring semester with the official opening
of the Hamilton Library Addition. Phase I and II of the library remain closed,
but materials are still accessible through the paging system.
Haleakala
picked for solar telescope site
Maui News, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
The board of the Association of University for Research in Astronomy recommended
Haleakala as the site of the $161 million Advanced Technology Solar Telescope,
the world’s largest optical solar telescope. UH officials with the Institute
for Astronomy will begin environmental studies that will, among other things,
examine where to build the observatory at the summit.
McClain to face new tests
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin names UH Interim President David McClain as one
of ten individuals in the state who are expected to have a big year ahead.
Chris Lee to produce “Spiderman
Returns”
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Chris Lee, chairman of the Academy for Creative Media at UH Manoa, has been
named executive producer of the mainstream movie “Superman Returns,” planned
for release in 2006. ACM students are likely to be hired in a first-of-a-kind
internship.
$88M
plan for Kapolei commences
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawaiʻi has begun its search for a developer to build
an $88.8 million campus for the University of Hawaiʻi-West Oahu.
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UH schools among top in national survey
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Hawaiʻi Community College, Maui Community College and Windward Community
College are among the top small colleges in the country for student engagement
and learning, according to a survey released in November by the Community College
Survey of Student Engagement.
Auntie
Genoa to receive honorary degree
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Auntie Genoa Keawe, a living Hawaiian treasure, will receive an honorary degree
in recognition of her "national stature and musical achievements." Her
degree will be conferred in May at Windward Community College’s 2005 commencement.
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