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September
2005
Maui
News
A study by the University Hawai‘i Department of Oceanography found that
black coral deep in a trench off West Maui were being decimated by an introduced
octocoral species, Carijoa riisei, a “soft coral” species that
first appeared in Hawaiian waters in 1972.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The American Lung Association is giving $2.5 million to the University of Hawai‘i
Mānoa for respiratory research and to endow two chairs at the John A.
Burns School of Medicine to help fight respiratory disease in Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Advanced students from the University of Hawai‘i's Academy for Creative
Media are starting to branch out with their own independent film projects.
Honolulu
Advertiser
What happens when waves and currents hit a Hawaiian reef — where does
all that energy go, what effect does the moving water have on the reef structures
and sand beds and how does all that change life on the reef? A team of UH scientists
plans to install a multi-part sensing system on the sea floor off Kaka‘ako
to get some answers to these and other questions.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
"We want college students to stop smoking, but based on our preliminary
research we found most young people are really not interested in cessation," said
Dr. Hye-ryeon Lee of the UH Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i.
Pacific
Business News
Sam Shomaker thought Jan. 31 was going to be another busy but otherwise ordinary
day, overseeing the day-to-day operations of a sprawling university medical
school. By the end of that day, he was suddenly running the whole show.
Hilo Hawaii-Tribune
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo aims to begin construction early next
year on a facility designed to improve recreational opportunities on campus.
The building should be ready by fall semester in 2007.
West Hawai‘i Today
Five college students who fled Hurricane Katrina have taken refuge at the University
of Hawai‘i at Hilo.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
In a nine-day series, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin looked at the lives, the victories
and the challenges facing the women of Hawai‘i. The following stories
feature commentary from some of UH’s women leaders.
Hawaiian women
chart their own path to power
Abuse cuts
across socio-economic fabric
Entire
family sacrifices for mom’s devotion to career
Isle
girls outpace boys in many subjects
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i physicists are working with Makai Ocean Engineering
on a project that could reveal what's inside the Earth. They're developing
a 60-foot sphere to detect ghostly neutrinos and anti-neutrinos in Hawai‘i's
deep ocean.
Honolulu
Advertiser (4th item)
The Man of Steel doesn't officially make it back to earth (and the big screen)
until summer '06, but UH Academy for Creative Media chairman Chris Lee — who
served as executive director of the new film "Superman Returns" — is
back in Honolulu after an eventful several months of filming in Australia. And,
he emphasized, he's back at the academy to stay
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Sept. 30 opening of the research building at the John A. Burns
School of Medicine's new Kaka‘ako campus signifies the completion
of the first phase of the school set into motion five years ago.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Hamilton Library on the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa campus was
taken off its electricity generator and hooked back up to main campus power
after nearly a year of running on the mobile power source
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
“Treasures from the University of Hawai‘i Library,” works exhibited
and rescued from last year’s flood at Hamilton Library, are on view at
the UH Art Gallery through Nov. 10.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Research centers at the University of Hawai‘i and three other institutions
are proposing a large study on Hurricane Katrina's effects on Lake Pontchartrain.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Couples trying to have babies through a sperm injection in-vitro
treatment might have more success because of a discovery by University
of Hawai‘i researchers.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents approved the appointments
of Howard Todo as new chief financial officer for the university system and Wayne
T. Iwaoka as new vice chancellor for students at UH Mānoa.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents agreed to a budget request
to be submitted to the governor, that if approved, would allow it to cut into
an estimated $175 million in deferred maintenance.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Construction is over at the John A. Burns School of Medicine's bioresearch
building, where Hawaiian healing traditions blend with the latest technology.
A dedication ceremony will be held on Sept. 30.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
Astronomers from Japan and the University of Hawai‘i have used telescopes
to measure a massive star in the throes of dying about 12.8 billion light-years
away—the most distant explosion of a star seen from Earth.
New Scientist
The original home of the world's most famous space rock, the Allen Hills Martian
meteorite, has now been identified, thanks to Vicky Hamilton of Mānoa’s
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. Hamilton presented her
analysis of where the meteorite may have come from on Mars at a recent meeting
of the Meteoritical Society in Tennessee.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
“We are very optimistic grant dollars will continue to come in, and research
excellence will continue to be a major focus for the school of medicine," associate
dean David Easa said, pointing out former Dean Ed Cadman set that direction before
he resigned as dean because of illness.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Honolulu Community College marked the fourth anniversary of the
9/11 terrorist attacks with a small piece of concrete enshrined in
a new memorial on the campus.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
The National Science Foundation has awarded $500,000 to a group headed
by UH volcanology professor Bruce Houghton to develop a "tsunami preparedness
model" to help emergency workers improve public alerts.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
James C. Sadler, an internationally noted meteorologist who had a distinguished
career at the University of Hawai‘i, where he taught meteorology 22 years,
is remembered for being “one of the foremost meteorologists of his time,
and one of the founders of tropical meteorology as a discipline.”
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A new "seasonality" poster from the UH Mānoa College of
Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources helps consumers figure out the best
time to buy local produce.
Maui News
The Akamai Internship Program, a project co-sponsored by Maui CC
which aids students interested in technology fields, has become a productive
way for them to move into the work force.
Hilo Hawai‘i Tribune
Almost daily, UH zoologist Nick Whitney comes face-to-face with one of
the ocean's top predators—whitetip reef sharks. He hopes to help scientists
better understand the behavior of Triaenodon obesus by tagging and photographing
these sharks, as well as documenting their movements.
MidWeek
The recently established Parents and Friends of UH Mānoa are just the
second college group to join the national PTA.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
Michael Dahilig will serve as the interim student representative to the UH
Board of Regents. His two-year term expires June 30, 2007.
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