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December
2005
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The second-highest ranking Filipino American in the Army told more than 1,000
University of Hawai’i graduates at yesterday's fall commencement exercise
that education is the ticket to becoming a successful leader to better the
lives of the community.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
John Hara Associates Inc., the architect firm that designed Punahou's
Case Middle School and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, has been
selected to design the first buildings of a new University of Hawaii-West
Oahu campus in Kapolei.
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH scientists have identified what they describe as the "heartbeat" of
the ocean, a previously unknown cycle of marine fertility near Hawai'i that
could be fueling fisheries in ways science has not until now recognized.
Kauai
Garden Island
Under the guidance of Sheraton Kauai Resort Executive Chef Shoji Namatame,
Kauai Community College culinary arts students created a gingerbread house
measuring eight feet wide by 10 feet high for guests and the public to enjoy.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents officially launched a search
for the next president yesterday by authorizing the formation of a task group
to head the search, with authority to hire an executive search firm. Officials
hope to fill the spot by the beginning of next fall.
Honolulu
Advertiser
After several years of financial neglect the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum,
the only university arboretum in the United States that is in a tropical
rainforest, is fighting back to full operation.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Hawai'i researchers and plant experts are working in laboratories,
gardens, native forests and soon even in Africa toward a common goal
of saving the embattled Hawaiian wiliwili tree, which is being threatened
across the state by a mysterious bug called the erythrina gall wasp.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project report, issued by the city
last week, introduces various traffic alternatives for the area stretching
from Kapolei to the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai'i-Mānoa is moving ahead with plans to
develop new student housing after Interim Chancellor Denise Konan signed
off on an agreement to begin the design process.
Hawaii
Business
Peter Giles, new director of Mauna Kea Education Center, compares his
previous and challenging job to climbing a very high mountain. "One
that you're not sure what the route is," he says, "because nobody's
actually been up there before in that particular community."
Hawaii
Business
Dean Wai-Fah Chen's dream of turning UH's college of engineering into one of
the best schools in the nation is finally within arm's reach. So why is he
suddenly leaving?
Pacific
Business News
Rob Robinson, UH professor and founder of the successful UH Angel
investment network, is creating a new venture capital fund to help finance
Hawaii companies that have been launched successfully but need help building
business
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, a Leilehua High School graduate who investigated
prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, will be the commencement
speaker at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa on Dec. 18.
West Hawaii Today
The University of Hawaii at Hilo should become more attractive to prospective
students once its $20.9 million Student Life Center opens, a UHH administrator
said.
Maui News
A nearly $400,000 federal grant will put laptops in the hands of Maui Community
College students living on Native Hawaiian homesteads on Molokai and Lanai
and in Hana so that they won’t have to make the choice between family
and school.
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Seven UH astronomers talked of the ultimate worst-case scenarios in a lecture
optimistically titled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the End of Everything."
Pacific Business News
Howard Todo, UH's new chief financial officer, discusses his plans for
managing the finances of the UH system.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
After a year on the job, UH business school dean Vance Roley has found some
issues that need to be addressed. In response plans to launch new programs
and work on increasing endowment support for faculty.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
About 500 UH students reported to their Army ROTC unit hours after Pearl Harbor
was attacked. They were the first and the only ROTC unit to enter service
in World War II. Now they, along with others who served on Dec. 7, 1941,
are eligible to receive the Pearl Harbor Commemorative medal.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH researchers are helping the fight to save native wiliwili and coral trees
used in landscaping and agriculture from an introduced pest, the Erythrina
gall wasp.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The release of more than $22 million to the University of Hawai'i will help
address a substantial backlog in repairs and maintenance throughout the 10-campus
system.
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