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March
2007
Honolulu
Advertiser
Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, D-Hawai‘i, last week offered formal congratulations
to the University of Hawai‘i’s College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources, for reaching its 100th anniversary, with a statement on the
U.S. Senate floor.
Honolulu
Advertiser
An initiative to have every third grader in Hawai‘i reading at grade level
by 2015 received a $10 million boost of support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Hawai‘i P-20, more aptly called "Capturing the Momentum – the
P-3 Initiative," is a collaboration of local community organizations along
with the University of Hawai‘i, the Hawai‘i Department of Education,
and the Good Beginnings Alliance.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i’s William S. Richardson School of Law's
Environmental Law Program will be awarded a Certificate of Recognition today
by the state Legislature.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Nutritionists are re-examining the advice they're giving to people
about supplements, says a researcher with the UH Cancer Research Center
of Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Fine-art futzes and others in the smoking-jacket crowd are going to
have their socks blown off with the University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery's
great leap into what art schools call "new media." The exhibition
runs through April 13.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The state needs a facility on the Wai‘anae Coast to train future
teachers who live in the community, know the people and, most importantly,
understand its Hawaiian culture. Margie Maaka, associate professor
of education at the University of Hawai‘i, is helping to make that
plan happen
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
An overflow crowd of nearly 400 people attended the University of Hawai‘i
at Hilo’s Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet Feb. 23 at
the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel and helped raise more than $7,000 for scholarship awards.
Honolulu
Advertiser
“Centennial” and “Princess Aiko” are the new plants among
nearly 40 anthurium varieties of varying shapes and colors pioneered by the University
of Hawai‘i. They promise to keep Hawai‘i flower growers competitive
in an increasingly global market.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
“Reiko Brandon, Selected Works, Then and Now” which runs through
April 12 at the Koa Gallery, located on the KCC campus, is a showcase of textile
pieces that illustrates the artist’s “lifelong struggle to bridge
East and West.”
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery's new show, “What Sound Does
a Color Make?,” organized by Independent Curators International, New
York, showcases contemporary and “vintage” video art straddles
aural and visual modes.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The newly appointed University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa chancellor told
a campus crowd that she will collaborate with the university community to identify
priorities and accomplish goals.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Pre-menopausal and menopausal women could reduce their risk of ovarian cancer
with birth control pills, suggests a new Hawai‘i study by the UH Cancer
Research Center of Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Four years ago they probably did not know what blood pressure was, and soon
they will be saving lives, the acting dean of the University of Hawai‘i
medical school noted.
Maui
News
When renowned ethnobiologist and limu expert Isabella Abbott agreed to be interviewed
for an oral history project conducted by Maui Community College, she had no
idea it would lead her to a group of long-lost relatives she had been searching
for.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Never mind that the actual campus won't be available for at least two years.
The four-year University of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu is coming to
Kapolei this fall.
Honolulu
Advertiser
When the University of Hawai‘i recently offered residents the chance
for "earth-friendly disposal" of computers and other unwanted electronic
waste, organizers figured they'd get a good response. They collected an eye-popping
1.2 million pounds' worth, enough proof there is a need in the community and
that people would prefer an alternative to tossing old electronics in the trash.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa will join other colleges and universities
across the country in surveying all greenhouse gas emissions on the campus
and their impacts.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Windward CC art professor Toni Martin's efforts have paid off well in creating
the biannual "Community College Art" exhibition some six years ago.
This year's installment, the show's third, which runs through March 23 at Windward
Community College's Gallery ‘Iolani, drew almost 400 visitors on opening
night, with folks “waiting in line to get in.”
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i’s world-class research centers in astronomy,
planetary science and engineering, and the Maui Supercomputing Center, were
obvious attractions for NASA, and among the reasons cited last week as a top
NASA research lab director signed an unprecedented agreement with the state
to collaborate on future exploration.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i scientists have created a new type of anthurium
and named it "Centennial" in honor of UH's 100th anniversary.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Two second-year law students at the University of Hawai‘i earned a national
title in Native American Law Moot Court Competition last month.
Hawai‘i Tribune-Herald
The University of Hawai‘i-Hilo’s ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center
of Hawai‘i looks back on their first year and shares new additions to
the popular tourist destination, including new planetarium manager Shawn Laatsch.
Honolulu
Advertiser
“What Sound Does a Color Make?,” an art exhibition that explores
those possibilities through immersive sensory environments and time-based videos,
opened Sunday at the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa Art Gallery.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The “Best Little Aquarium in the World” — the state aquarium
in Waikīkī — has ambitions of becoming a modern world-class
attraction now that proposals to build competing facilities elsewhere on O‘ahu
were abandoned recently.
Honolulu
Magazine
For more than a decade, Dr. Andrew Grandinetti, an epidemiologist and affiliate
with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the John A. Burns School of
Medicine, has been studying how diabetes affects different races in the Kohala
area on the Big Island.
Pacific Business News
A part of real estate developer Jay Shidler’s $25 million donation to
the UH College of Business last year was set aside as matching funds to draw
more donations for endowed scholarships, professorships and fellowships. And
it's working.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
“It's been a great run for me and my teams,” Wallace said. “I
promised that we'd play hard and I think for 20 years they did, and I'm proud
of every one of them.”
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
The latest annual state forecast by the University of Hawai‘i Economic
Research Organization predicts further slowing of growth in every segment of
the economy, from tourism to residential real estate.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
In response to a decline in visitor satisfaction, the Hawai‘i Tourism
Authority has contracted with the University of Hawai‘i’s Travel
Industry Management School to create a hospitality work-force development program,
in addition to hospitality seminars for members of the state’s visitor
industry.
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