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November
2005
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The holiday gift-giving season is fast approaching and Herman Frazier knows
exactly what he would like: a successful $20 million capital-improvement campaign
for the University of Hawaii's lower campus.
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Information and computer sciences professor David Nickels is making learning
fun for his students by taking advantage of the popularity of iPods and podcast
technology.
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Mary Boland, new School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene Dean at UH Mānoa,
hopes to help people in Hawai‘i realize the value of school and create
visibility for it.
Honolulu
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Publicist and UH public relations instructor Eileen Mortensen will be remembered
for being a trusted friend to many.
Honolulu
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UH Mānoa researcher Anyuan Cao has discovered that microscopically thin
fibers known as carbon nanotubes are more resilient and hundreds of times stronger
than commonly used synthetic foams.
Honolulu
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Gov. Linda Lingle has released more than $18 million for a student fitness
center and Hawaiian-language studies building at the University of Hawai‘i
at Hilo.
Honolulu
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The University of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu and Leeward Community College
will offer a joint certificate program in forensic anthropology next year,
university officials have announced.
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Top scientists from the University of Hawai‘i, Stanford University and
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will use a $1.5 million research center
recently built on the remote Palmyra Atoll’s Cooper Island by the Nature
Conservancy, to conduct research that could provide new insights into climate
change, disappearing coral reefs and other global environmental issues.
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The University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents yesterday approved nearly
$4 million in contracts to improve air-conditioning systems at the UH Mānoa
campus.
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The new $4.8 million Construction Training Center of the Pacific is being developed
in a partnership between the city and the Building Industry Association of
Hawai‘i, which will help prepare workers to enter the apprenticeship
program at Honolulu Community College.
Ka
Leo o Hawai‘i
This month the student-run station KTUH begins broadcasting on its new Windward
frequency at 89.9 FM enabling Windward fans to tune into the popular station.
Honolulu
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A UH Mānoa conservationist is helping forensic investigators in Hawai‘i.with
final clues to solve the 63-year-old mystery of a World War II airman found
frozen and mummified in the Sierra Nevadas last month.
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A new exhibit of various jellyfish at the UH’s Waikiki Aquarium will
surely amuse keiki and adults alike.
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Students with the Academy for Creative Media at UH Mānoa are looking for
actors to star in a variety of roles in upcoming student projects.
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A quicker, better test for diseases such as bird flu could come from research
under way at the University of Hawai‘i. A contract between UH and a Hawai‘i-based
biotechnology company, BioXene, will help fund research by Wei Wen Winston
Su, a chemical engineer and UH professor of molecular biosciences and bioengineering
who has been developing the tiny sensing devices.
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Eric Shinseki, a retired Army chief of staff, filled a standing-room-only crowd
of 600 at last week’s UH Distinguished Lecture Series at UH Mānoa’s
Campus Center Ballroom. The topic for the first in the UH Distinguished Lecture
Series was "Challenges in the effective use of force." Attendees
included other vets who would like to sit down with him and talk “soldier
to soldier."
Honolulu
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The Globalization Research Center at UH Mānoa has received a $350,774
federal grant to establish a task force to help battle human trafficking, a
form of modern day slavery.
Honolulu
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David Karl, UH oceanographer and microbial biologist, has been honored by the
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute for achievements and leadership in
his field.
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Michael Graves, professor and chairman of the Department of Anthropology at
the University of Hawaii, and Kehaunani Cachola-Abad of Kamehameha Schools
will use $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their
three-year study, titled “An Integrative Historical and Archaeological
Study of the Rise to Leadership of Kamehameha the Great.”
Pacific
Business News
China plans to establish a Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii
at Mānoa, one of six schools set up in the United States to educate Americans
about Chinese language, culture and business practices.
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For Kealoha Kaliko, a new School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of
Hawai‘i -Mānoa is about more than strengthening intellectual prowess
and earnings potential for students like himself — it's about ensuring
that the Hawaiian way of thinking is perpetuated.
Honolulu
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Children under 5 years old who live in Kalihi on O‘ahu, Maui, Lanai,
Moloka‘i and in the area from Kau to Keau to Pahoa on the Big Island
can get free books mailed to them through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
in Hawai‘i, a program coordinated by UH Mānoa’s Center on
the Family.
Maui News
Second graders at Kihei Elementary School are the first on the neighbor islands
to participate in “Termite Project,” sponsored by the University
of Hawai‘i Plant and Environmental Protection Science Department.
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Residents interested in such complex subjects as nanophysics, cosmic ray physics
and astronomy research can learn more about them at an open house Nov. 19 at
the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Physics and Astronomy Department.
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The University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy is collaborating with
Lincoln Laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop
advanced detectors for a smaller version of the Pan-STARRS telescope which
will help spot asteroids that could collide with Earth.
Ka
Leo O Hawai‘i
Instead of Aloha Friday, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa has
declared Friday to be "Green Day." As advertised on banners around
campus, students are being asked to wear green every Friday.
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Resident advisers at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa housing complex
are participating in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, training through
donations and volunteers secured though the Parents and Friends of UH Mānoa,
the first nationally recognized PTA associated with a university.
Honolulu
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Thanks to a new security system donated by the Security Alarm Shop and other
safety measures to protect Waikiki Aquarium’s exhibit of rare giant clams,
the public is now welcome to revisit the popular exhibit. Seven months
ago, seven of the clams were stolen. Although they were eventually returned,
one died a few weeks later.
Honolulu
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A new University of Hawai‘i Cancer Research Center in Kaka‘ako
is moving forward with $10 million in federal funding. U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye
and Hawai‘i ‘s other congressional members helped to obtain the
funds in legislation signed into law in December 2004.
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The Thirty-Meter Telescope — three times bigger than the world's largest
optical and infrared telescopes, the twin Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea – could
be placed alongside the telescopes. One of its goals will be to photograph
planets circling the stars other than our own sun, said Rolf-Peter Kudritzki,
director of the University of Hawai‘i’s Institute for Astronomy,
which manages observatory sites atop Mauna Kea and Haleakala.
Honolulu
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.65 million grant to University
of Hawai‘i researchers to study how indigenous people manage resources.
Honolulu
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The Princeton Review's 2006 "Best 159 Law Schools" ranked the University
of Hawaii law school second in the category for "best environment for
minority students" and fifth in the category for "most diverse faculty."
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