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March
2005
UH
main library reopens
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i’s Hamilton Library reopened its main
doors last week, providing students and staff access to one building that has
been inaccessible since the Oct. 30, 2004 flood. U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie
was present at last week’s opening ceremony.
UH
selects cancer center developer
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
At a special meeting last week, the UH Board of Regents authorized the UH administration
to enter into a real estate development agreement with Townsend Capital LLC
to design, build, finance and manage construction of the Cancer Research Center
of Hawai‘i in Kaka‘ako.
Flood aid gets UH closer to whole
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i expects to receive $31 million in federal emergency
aid to pay for damages on the Manoa campus caused by the Oct. 30 flood.
Monitoring
the reefs
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH scientists have been studying “coupled environments” of land
and water in some of Hawai‘i’s coastal zones to determine whether
they emit carbon dioxide or absorb it as does the ocean.
UH seeks developer for Kaka‘ako
bioscience center
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i has started the selection process for a developer
for a bioscience research facility next to the new medical school at Kaka‘ako.
Developing
green thumbs
Hawai‘i
Tribune-Herald
Living in Hilo, the saying goes, is as exciting as watching grass grow. For
several years, however, the University of Hawai‘i has operated a program
dedicated to helping Big Island residents do just that.
UH football mines for Silver
Honolulu
Advertiser
In a not-so-extreme makeover, the UH Warrior football team will add silver
to their previous color scheme of black and green.
UH
law school in exchange program
Honolulu
Advertiser
Harvard’s Morton Horwitz says he’d come back to the University
of Hawai‘i in a heartbeat. Or a snowstorm. And that’s exactly what’s
going to help make a new exchange program between Harvard, other top law schools
and UH work.
UH models calculate tsunami flooding
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i researchers have developed sophisticated models
to predict coastal flooding in Hawai‘i from tsunamis generated by distant
earthquakes.
UH astronomer wins free-rein fellowship
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
A University of Hawai‘i astronomer is one of eight young scientists in
astrophysics recognized with a prestigious $45,000 Sloan Foundation Research
Fellowship.
UH
scientists discover Japanese submarine
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The deep-diving scientists of the University of Hawai'i's Hawai‘i Undersea
Research Laboratory's Pisces submarines have discovered the remains of the
Imperial Japanese Navy's I-401 submarine, a gigantic underwater aircraft carrier
built to bomb the Panama Canal.
Hamilton Library set to reopen
Honolulu
Advertiser
On March 29, five months after the Manoa flood swept through the University
of Hawai'i campus, inundating the basement of Hamilton Library, among other
buildings, Hamilton will be almost completely reopened to the public.
Med school Match-ups
Honolulu Star
Bulletin
Thousands of graduates of medical schools, including the UH John A. Burns School
of Medicine, competing for residency slots nationally open envelopes on "Match
Day" each year to get results of their choices.
Hawaiian language alive and well thanks
to UH programs
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
"Before, people would hear me speaking Hawaiian to someone and ask what
language I was speaking," said Leilani Basham, coordinator of the Hawaiian
language program at the University of Hawai'i's flagship Manoa campus. "I
don't get that anymore."
UH Hilo researchers to probe effects
on native fauna
Hawai‘i
Tribune-Herald
UH-Hilo biology professors William Mautz and Rebecca Ostertag received a $300,000
grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the coqui's effect
on Hawai‘i’s forests.
Scholarship fund would help B students
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Any low-income student who graduates from a public high school in Hawai‘i
with at least a B average would get a scholarship to any four-year University
of Hawai‘i campus or community college under a proposal being advanced
by Senate Higher Education Chairman Clayton Hee.
UH to pick developers for 3 projects
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i is within weeks of selecting developers and
proceeding on three major projects: building a new Cancer Research Center of
Hawai'i in Kaka‘ako; launching Phase I of a new West O'ahu campus in
Kapolei; and redeveloping three of the oldest dorms on the Manoa campus.
UH professor’s feature film
makes commercial run
Honolulu
Advertiser
“The Land Has Eyes," the first feature film by UH professor Vilsoni “Vili" Hereniko,
made its first commercial run at Signature Dole Theatres last week. The film
is a tale of struggle, strength and survival not common in the Western world.
Vessel readies for deep-sea expedition
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Researchers with the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory, jointly operated
by UH and the NOAA, will leave on their most challenging mission yet on March
18 when they will begin their 5-month exploration of some of the world's largest
and most active undersea volcanoes, stretching from New Zealand to Tonga. UH
anthropologists also will investigate the USS Chehalis, a shipwreck off American
Samoa.
UH hears testimony on tuition increase
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
UH administrators began hearing public testimony last week regarding the proposed
5-year tuition increase. Hearings statewide will continue through March before
presenting a final proposal to the Board of Regents in May.
Benefits of attending Hawai‘i
Community College
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A study on the benefits of attending Hawai’i Community College on the
Big Island suggests that students and taxpayers receive an attractive return
on the investment in higher education.
UH
offers classes for older adults
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Credit and noncredit courses, workshops, seminars and programs abound for older
adults at UH Manoa and the UH community colleges.
‘Labor and Leisure’ opens
at UH gallery
Honolulu
Advertiser
Making time to contemplate the relationship between labor and leisure, Tom
Klobe, gallery director and a recipient of the Living Treasures of Hawai‘i
2005 award, developed the exhibition "Labor and Leisure" on display
at the UH Main Art Gallery through April 15.
Artistry flourishes behind bars
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH art professor Rebecca Horne says creativity can teach prison inmates discipline
and a sense of accomplishment as she learned first hand teaching classes at
the Honolulu detention center - one of only three prisons in the United States
chosen for an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts and Bureau
Prisons.
Kaua'i CC planning for new $16M campus
center
Honolulu
Advertiser
Kaua‘i Community College is planning for a $16 million campus center
that will “centralize essential functions of the college that are now
housed in a variety of buildings throughout the campus. It will also act as
the front door of the campus, as well as the 'nerve center' and provide a gathering
place for college events."
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