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April
2007
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
It was Devin's third year attending the annual University of Hawai‘i Institute
for Astronomy's open house on April 29 in Mānoa, which drew about 1,500
people.
Pacific
Business News
New deans have been announced for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa's
School of Architecture and College of Education.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Signup for a pre-tax bus pass program designed in part to help relieve traffic
and parking at the University of Hawai‘i begins May 1 and runs through
June 15.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i is conducting genetically modified crop research
on bananas, tomatoes, petunias and lettuce in an effort to develop hardier,
disease-resistant plants.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Even as the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is raising its tuition,
the Princeton Review still ranks its undergraduate programs as one of 165 "America's
Best Value Colleges" for 2008.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Tomatoes cooked in olive oil are especially protective against prostate cancer,
says a University of Hawai‘i cancer researcher.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Honolulu Community College fashion technology students showcased their work
at the annual fashion show this weekend.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Gov. Linda Lingle released $951,000 today for renovation design plans of Gartley
Hall at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Gregg Takayama has been appointed Director of Communications in the Office
of the Chancellor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Joannie Dobbs, a professor in the University of Hawai‘i Department of
Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, did a comparative study with student
Wing Shan Tam, that found Western pastas such as spaghetti pack about 50 percent
more calories per cooked cup than cellophane noodles, which absorb several
times their volume in liquid instead.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Two teams from Leeward Community College in Pearl City took highest honors
at the recent WorldQuest competition.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
John E. “Jack” Randall, a leading authority on coral reef fishes,
says he has been working 47 years on his newest book, “knowing that one
day I'd try to put it all together.” Randall is a senior ichthyologist
at Bishop Museum and a UH graduate faculty member in zoology.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The winners of the University of Hawai‘i’s annual business plan
competition have been named. Six teams competed in the final competition
on April 26, which was followed by a banquet at Waialae Country Club.
Hawai‘i Tribune-Herald, Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo is getting a new $23.8 million science
building that should be finished in two years.
Hawai‘i Tribune-Herald
A bill aimed at helping the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo expand appears
headed for Mayor Harry Kim's desk. UHH and other "nationally accredited" colleges
would be able to build a combination of stores and dormitories under a new
land-use classification, according to the measure local lawmakers advanced
last week.
Pacific Business News
The University of Hawai‘i’s Shidler College of Business will add
daytime classes leading to a master's of business administration degree, part
of its drive to become a top-20 school.
Honolulu
Advertiser
What is it like to live on Mars? Seven adventurous scientists, including a
University of Hawai‘i computer science professor, will look for the answer
this summer in the Canadian Arctic.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The expectant 34-year-old mother of five is sold on the new University of Hawai‘i
medical school clinic for substance-abusing pregnant women.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Virus research has not resulted in any public exposure to potentially harmful
bugs, according to researchers, including those at the University of Hawai‘i,
where much of this work is done. And until recently, imports of such microbes
have elicited little public opposition.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The project, "Sustainable Saunders," is an effort born of the UH’s
recent focus on rising energy costs. The university is the second-largest consumer
of electricity on O‘ahu, after military services, and UH officials predict
that the university's electricity bill could reach $18 million this year.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A $100,000 grant has been awarded to the University of Hawai‘i-West O‘ahu
for the planning and design of environmentally sustainable buildings on the
new Kapolei campus.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Gov. Linda Lingle has released nearly $2.6 million to design a new library
and learning center at Windward Community College, one of the school's top
priorities, the governor's office said yesterday.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Residents who donate their bodies to the University of Hawai‘i’s
John A. Burns School of Medicine could save lives by helping them become better
doctors, medical students say.
Maui News
Cutting-edge technology will carry the message of peace and compassion of the
14th Dalai Lama from Maui to the rest of the world through a real-time Webcast
that will bring his public presentations on Maui April 24 and 25 to a global
audience. The webcast is a joint effort involving Maui Community College,
Stanford University, VX30 and SUN Microsystems, working with The Tibet Fund
and the office of the Dalai Lama.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
If you ever doubted the impact of Fashion Television and “Project Runway,” Honolulu
Community College's annual fashion show will be bigger than ever, with more
than 130 original designs to be presented onstage at 12:30 p.m. April 28 at
the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Molokai Ballroom.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Thanks to a project coordinated by the University of Hawai‘i, anyone
with Internet access can listen to whales and see what the deep ocean is like
in real time, thanks to an observatory that was recently lowered 16,500 feet
to the sea floor about 60 miles off O‘ahu.
Honolulu
Advertiser (editorial)
The University of Hawai‘i medical school is suffering, partly due to
administrative changes, but mainly because of an acute shortage of cash.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Location and lower prices are some of the selling points for the University
of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu as they recruit its first freshman class.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A concert sponsored by the Bishop Museum will benefit the effort to get 19th-
and early-20th-century Hawaiian-language newspapers onto the Web. Due to limited
resources, the project may take as many as three decades to complete. The state
and University of Hawai‘i libraries have incomplete microfilm collections
of Hawaiian newspapers that are waiting to be transferred.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa was founded 100 years ago as
the College of Mechanical and Agricultural Arts, mainly agricultural. So it
is that CTAHR—UH's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
-- also celebrated its centennial Thursday with an awards dinner. Dean Okimoto,
owner of Nalo Farms, was one of the main recipients of the evening.
Honolulu
Advertiser (editorial), Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
After 26 years as an assistant and associate coach under three head coaches,
enduring the final stages of his ascent to the top job in the Hawai‘i
basketball program taxed Bob Nash's insides.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
“I really feel like this is the big climax to my theatrical career at UH.
This is the first leading role that I've ever had there, and the first Western
mainstage show that I've been in,” Christa Eleftherakis said. She
stars as Rosalind in “As You Like It,” which runs through April 29
at Kennedy Theatre.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The opening of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" tonight at Kennedy
Theatre marks director Paul T. Mitri's ascension as the Bard man at the University
of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, succeeding retired Shakespearean scholar director
Terence Knapp.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The amount of federal research money going to Hawaii more than doubled to $169.4
million in 2004, from $81.3 million in 2000, according to a recent National
Science Foundation report. Gary Ostrander, vice chancellor for research at
the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said the state benefits threefold from research
at UH.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A plan to have every third-grader in Hawai‘i proficient in reading by
2015 has received a $10 million grant—the largest private donation to
early education in the state's history. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant will
support the Hawaii P-20 Initiative, a project launched five years ago by the
University of Hawai‘i, the state Department of Education and the Good
Beginnings Alliance, a community organization.
Hawai‘i-Tribune Herald
The University of Hawai‘i has one of the strongest astronomy programs
in the world, which is a direct result of the Mauna Kea observatories, said
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, director of the Institute for Astronomy at University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Kudritzki and many Hawai‘i astronomers
are hoping the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be the next observatory built
on the mountain.
Pacific
Business News, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Beginning in the fall, Windward Community Collegewill join with Chaminade University
to offer its students a bachelor's degree in criminal justice.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Entertainment and games will be part of the University of Hawai‘i-West
O‘ahu's (UHWO) annual UH West O‘ahu Day on April 10. The public
can join faculty, staff and students for the free celebration. Gov. Linda Lingle
and other community leaders will take part in the festivities from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at the Pearl City campus.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa will use surveys and posters
to battle what one official called the “Animal House” image that
colleges are places to party and drink to excess. The project is part of a
$240,000, four-year effort to combat underage and binge drinking funded by
the Anheuser-Busch Foundation.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Peter Nicholson, an associate professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at UH Mānoa, has been given the 2007 Robert W. Clopton Award
for outstanding community service.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i collaborated with the State Department of Land
and Natural Resources, the Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, to unveil the latest tool in the battle against alien algae in Hawai‘i.
Pacific Business News
The University of Hawai‘i’s College of Pharmacy is set to begin
classes this fall after almost a decade of planning.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Graduate programs in business, law and medicine at the University of Hawai‘i
at Mānoa are ranked in U.S. News and World Report's “Best Graduate
Schools 2008.”
Hawai‘i Tribune-Herald
A team of student delegates from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo was
honored March 22 at the annual National Model United Nations Conference (NMUN)
at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Derek Tatsuno, a former University of Hawai‘i left-hander, was voted
into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame by a 90-member committee.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Located on the UH Hilo campus, the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center — an
unconventional museum near the base of massive Mauna Kea volcano offering the
story of the star-filled skies that guided discoverers to the Hawaiian Islands — is
about more than outer space. It doubles as a cultural center, with Hawaiian-language
translations displayed on every exhibit and a focus on islanders' history of
exploration.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A John A. Burns School of Medicine program designed to get more family doctors
interested in working on the Neighbor Islands will begin later this year, helped
by $535,000 of funding from the HMSA Foundation.
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