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May
2005
Honolulu Advertiser—Article
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The 9th annual East-West Philosophers' Conference, being held through
June 10, brings to Hawai‘i internationally respected thinkers
who will discuss life’s basic questions. The conference
reminds us of UH’s historic strengths in bringing Asia and the
Pacific together with Western intellectual thought.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Manoa physicists discover a new and puzzling subatomic particle whose
existence was predicted 30 years ago.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
In three years, Manoa engineering professor Magdy F. Iskander has developed
a center at the UH Manoa that is becoming a leader in wireless communications.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A study co-authored by a University of Hawai‘i professor Victoria
Hamilton has concluded that an area of Mars has much larger than believed
deposits of the mineral olivine, offering clues about water — or the
lack of water — on the Red Planet.
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
The UH Board of Regents last week approved a tuition increase for the 10-campus
system that will be spread out over the next six years.
Malamalama
In the May issue of Malamalama, learn about various UH activities, including
the popular glass blowing program at UH Manoa, an agriculture program that
helps long-embattled East Timor get on its economic feet, and the ninth East-West
Philosophers’ Conference that invites thinkers of all sorts to address "educations" and
their impacts.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH athletic director Herman Frazier last week reported that the department
expects to be out of the red and anticipates a profit of $1.5 million
by 2007.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The state Land Use Commission last week approved construction of a new
University of Hawai‘i campus eight miles north of Kailua-Kona.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
University of Hawai‘i officials will join Gov. Lingle during
a 10-day China visit to sign various agreements with Chinese universities
and will join the tourism industry in promoting the state's hospitality
expertise as a commodity for export to China, where resort properties
-- and their requisite management needs -- are proliferating.
Pacific
Business News
Blaine Murakami, a UH engineering graduate, has been named the nation's
top electrical engineering student.
Pacific
Business News
The Chris Grootaert Endowed Scholarship Fund, established with a $62,000
pledge to the UH Foundation, is named for a 1978 UH economic graduate.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Kauai
Garden Island News
University of Hawai‘i graduation ceremonies took place across the
state last week. Manoa graduates celebrated with new green gowns and
a new processional song, "Above All Nations," composed by UH Manoa
professor Donald Womack.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
John Michael Fitzpatrick of Maui and Melissa Mac Garrett of St. Petersburg,
Fla., are the first graduates of the University of Hawai‘i’s 2-year-old
marine biology degree program.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The 2,470 students who graduated this weekend from UH Manoa and hundreds
of others from local colleges will enter the most welcoming job market in years.
Honolulu
Advertiser
In response to opposition to proposed price increases at the University of
Hawai'i, administrators have canceled a planned $10-per-credit hour technology
fee and are suggesting the tuition increase be spread over six years instead
of five.
Pacific
Business News
Gov. Linda Lingle recently signed into law an emergency appropriation of $47
million for the University of Hawai‘i. The money will pay for damages
the Manoa campus incurred as a result of floods on Oct. 30, 2004.
Pacific
Business News
The maker of a widely-used linguistics computer platform credits the University
of Hawai‘i with some of its database as it rolls out the newest version
of the program. The new program from Basis Technology features
performance enhancements for Arabic analysis; new dictionaries for Asian languages;
named entity extraction; and expanded coverage for language identification.
Hawaii Herald-Tribune (article
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The state legislature has approved various capitol improvement projects for
Hawai‘i Community College and UH Hilo, including a new campus for HCC
and a science and technology and Hawaiian language building at UHH.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The Queen's Medical Center and the University of Hawai‘i's John A.
Burns School of Medicine are conducting a five-year program that aims to reduce
heart failure by outfitting clinics with portable ultrasound machines.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo's College of Business and Economics
has received international accreditation for its undergraduate program from
the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser, BBC
News
David Jewitt credits the "powerhouse" University of Hawai‘i
Institute for Astronomy for his election to two prestigious national science
academies and recent discovery of 12 new moons around Saturn.
National
Geographic
DeWolfe Miller, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hawai‘i,
who has participated in research related to the death of King Tut, the most
famous Egyptian king in history, says tomb toxins may not be the cause of death
for Lord Carnarvon who helped discover the pharaoh’s tomb in 1922.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i undergraduates put on their best show in research
and creative projects ranging from design of a micro-satellite to indoctrination
of child terrorists as part of their presentations in Symposium 2005.
Maui
News
A single mother of two at Maui Community College has been selected among 25
recipients in the nation to receive the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship.
Hawai‘i
Herald-Tribune
University of Hawai‘i at Hilo tennis coach Kula Oda has been selected
the NCAA Division II West Region Men’s Coach of the Year.
Hawai‘i
Herald-Tribune
With three facilities representing an investment of more than $80 million,
Hilo's Komohana Street is becoming a hotbed of agricultural research. The
latest project involves a $14.5 million renovation of the Komohana Agricultural
Complex, the local headquarters for the UH Manoa’s College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resources.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Undergraduate fine arts students present a gallery showing of ‘local
style’ works through Friday at UH Manoa’s Art Gallery.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
New choreography will be showcased this week at "Spring Footholds: Moving
Images" at the UH Manoa's Earle Ernst Lab Theatre, where graduate fine
arts students will display a convergence of movement, technology and original
music.
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