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June
2005
Pacific
Business News
University of Hawai‘i's School of Travel Industry Management will
launch its first approved master of science degree program in Singapore in
February next year. The Singapore program, which will focus on tourism
and travel in the Asia-Pacific region, hopes to attract students and midcareer
professionals who will give the T.I.M. School a leg up in expanding its presence
in Asia.
Honolulu
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A seven-person team of University of Hawai‘i faculty and scientists
left for Sri Lanka last week to look for ways to partner with the Southeast
Asian nation to rebuild coastal areas, help prevent future tsunami destruction
and assist in posttraumatic stress issues.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i scientists will be analyzing chemical
data to warn of potentially catastrophic events such as earthquakes or
landslides.
Honolulu
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The William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i
has been awarded a $600,000 federal grant to establish a Center of Excellence
in Native Hawaiian Law that would, for the first time, focus exclusively on
Native Hawaiian legal issues as well as community outreach.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Gov. Linda Lingle last week signed a bill authorizing the issuance
of $100 million in revenue bonds for maintenance and construction of
housing units at the Manoa campus, which will help the university “move
forward much more aggressively” in undertaking its plan to renovate
and expand on-campus housing, said Interim President David McClain. Lingle
also signed into a law a measure that extends fiscal autonomy for the
university and the Department of Education for another year.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i oceanographers are part of an international
group trying to unravel the secrets of microscopic life in the ocean.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Restaurateur Peter Kim never expected to stay in Hawai‘i after graduating
from UH, but when his family business proved fruitful, he decided to stay back.
Among his successes include Manoa’s foot court. He also recently opened
his 10th and 11th restaurant brands this month at the Makai Market in Ala Moana
Center.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Vicente Arkangel teaches others how to make custom-made ukuleles at Windward
Community College. Classes are held several times throughout the year.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
After a month in Hawai‘i, Susi Fitri, a professor in group
counseling at the State University of Jakarta, returned with the knowledge
to heal the spirit of survivors and crisis workers. She thanks crisis
counseling experts on the island for her newfound knowledge, including
UH social work professors who taught her how to develop community support
for victims and manage volunteers
Honolulu
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Thirty-one UH Manoa student athletes were honored for their academic accomplishments
by the Academic All-Western Athletic Conference and Western Athletic Conference.
Honolulu
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Many young stars in the Orion Nebula are surrounded by enough
orbiting dust and material to form a whole new planetary system like
our own, University of Hawai‘i scientists report in an article
that appears in the Astrophysical Journal.
Honolulu
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Space scientists, including astronomers from UH, announced the discovery
of what may be a rocky, Earth-like planet orbiting a star 15 light years away — a
milestone in the search for a world outside the solar system that could sustain
life.
Honolulu
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Two UH ocean scientists, both with the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology,
are conducting separate research projects at five sites in the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands to understand how much the animals move between different
reefs.
Honolulu
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Richard S. Alm, an emeritus professor with the College of Education at
UH Manoa, is remembered for training thousands of school teachers as a professor
and launching a clinic that offered far-reaching help to struggling young readers
in the state school system.
Hawaii
Herald-Tribune
Malika Dudley, who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in speech and
French from UH Manoa, was crowned Miss Hawai‘i last week. She credits
her parents, UH Hilo oceanography professor Walter Dudley and UH Hilo French
instructor Kamila Dudley, for their support.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Pierre-Henri Soero will be the first golfer from the University of
Hawai‘i to play in the U.S. Open this week.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH microbial researchers and University of Mississippi pharmacology scientists
will study the discovered microorganisms gathered during their expedition on
the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory for possible industrial and
pharmaceutical uses.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
"The university is trying to build the premier center in the world for studies
of primitive materials, cosmic dust, meteorites and samples from other planets," said
Peter Mouginis-Mark, acting director of the UH Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics
and Planetology.
Maui News
The UH Institute for Astronomy is planning a series of public presentations
on Maui, O‘ahu and the Big Island that will allow the public to
view one of the universe’s biggest events of the year – the
July 4 collision by an Earth-launched spacecraft with the Comet Tempel
1.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Students and professors from the University of Hawai‘I’s
William S. Richardson School of Law and public and private criminal defense
lawyers from Hawaii will join efforts for a nationwide project that will
take up cases of inmates who have been wrongfully convicted in Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
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The quarterly report from UH economists Carl Bonham and Byron Gangnes of the
UH Economic Research Organization said the state's visitor arrivals, employment
and income gowth are expected to be higher than earlier predicted for the fiscal
year ending June 30.
Honolulu
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Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i Lyon Arboretum applaud the
selection of Manoa associate professor of botany Cliff Morden as the new interim
director of the arboretum and look forward to positive changes ahead.
Honolulu
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For the third time in a five years, a UH student has won the top electrical
engineering award in the nation. This year it’s Blaine Murakami,
a 22-year-old graduating senior at the Manoa campus, who was awarded the 2005
Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Award by Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical engineering society.
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