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March
2008
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The John A. Burns School of Medicine hopes its pilot program offering prenatal
services, delivery and postpartum assistance to substance-abusing women will
become permanent through the support of community organizations and the Legislature.
Honolulu
Advertiser
After seven years of success, Leeward Community College’s annual culinary
gala is now known as L‘ulu, and will honor Hawai‘i chefs that
have put the state on the culinary map and have aided young culinarians.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A vast collection of prints from around the globe is currently on display
at the University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery on the ā campus, and
public events on April 6 coinciding with the exhibit will include a gallery
walkthrough and printmaking demonstration.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KGMB
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and the Colorado School of Mines
have formed a partnership to research how to sustain life in outer space.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Easy and approachable cooking and lifestyle ideas for healthful eating is
the basis of Kapi‘olani Community College’s new book, “A
DASH of Aloha: Healthy Hawai‘i Cuisine and Lifestyle,” which
will be featured through weekly recipes in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Aspiring teachers can learn more about a program at Leeward Community College
that prepares students for entry-level education positions at a free public
information session on April 2.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
April is Tsunami Awareness Month in Hawai‘i, and University of Hawai‘i
engineering professors, along with graduate and postdoctoral students, are
aiding in the state’s tsunami preparedness by updating evacuation maps
and providing other assistance.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The UH Mānoa athletics department has established an online survey and
is asking for the community to provide feedback on UH sports by April 8.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
Jay Shidler has given another $1 million to complete renovations at the Shidler
College of Business at UH Mānoa, which brings his total gift for renovations
to the school to $2.5 million.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
An associate degree in automotive mechanics from Honolulu Community College
helped Steven Ho gain the enjoyable and challenging position of lead technician
at Servco Pacific Inc.’s Servco Auto Honolulu.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
UH Hilo’s ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center hosted a way-finding, or noninstrument
navigation, skills workshop over the Spring Break, passing on traditional
methods to future generations through a variety of activities and presentations.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News, KHNL
The University of Hawai‘i has received more money and a firm commitment
from the National Institutes of Health to go ahead with a $47.5 million biocontainment
laboratory to study infectious diseases that will be built near the John
A. Burns School of Medicine in Kaka‘ako.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, The
New York Times, National
Geographic
A team of scientists led by University of Hawai‘i graduate student
Mikki Osterloo have discovered the first evidence for deposits of chloride
minerals on Mars, showing where water was once abundant and providing evidence
for the existence of former Martian life.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The John A. Burns School of Medicine’s 56 graduating seniors celebrated
national “Match Day” recently, opening their envelopes along
with 15,000 other senior medical school students across the nation to learn
where they will go for residency programs after graduation.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
Hawai‘i’s economy will slow to almost no growth this year as
visitor arrivals decline and unemployment increases, according to a new forecast
from the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa’s Lynn Davis leads Hamilton Library’s preservation
department’s four-year effort to save thousands of flood-damaged maps
Pacific
Business News
UH Mānoa’s School of Architecture is revamping its seven-year
degree program to attract more student interest and offer flexibility by
instituting a new “four-plus-three” program giving students the
option of stopping with a bachelor’s degree after the first four years.
Maui
News
With celebrity chef Sam Choy serving as keynote speaker, about 50 students
in Maui Community College’s culinary academy were honored at the “First
Six” graduation, a celebration held for students after completing the
first six core courses of the program.
Roadracing
World Magazine
Leeward Community College is now offering the Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s
Basic RiderCourse, which offers training for all skill levels so that riders
may enjoy a lifetime of safe, responsible motorcycling.
Honolulu
Magazine
With the help of a $1.4 million NOAA grant, UH marine scientists are using
the university’s submersibles to explore an extraordinary expanse of
largely unexplored deep-sea coral reefs off the coast of Maui.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The Polynesian Voyaging Society is exploring the idea of sending the Hokule‘a
on an around-the-world journey, a journey that would have Honolulu Community
College training crewmembers for through a unique partnership with the college’s
Marine Education and Training Center.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, KHNL, KITV
Sheraton Hawai‘i Bowl Executive Director and former UH Mānoa athletics
administrator Jim Donovan has been appointed director of athletics at UH
Mānoa, a coming home of sorts for the former UH football player and
graduate assistant coach who climbed his way up the ladder.
The
Garden Island
Hawai‘i chefs Alan Wong and George “Chef Mavro” Mavrothalassitis
will headline this year’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Kaua‘i
Community College Spring Gourmet Gala set for April 11.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Honolulu Community College student Shawna Masuda has been recognized for
her talent and professional aspirations with the first Diamond Head International
Music Festival & Conference scholarship.
BusinessWeek
UH Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
has joined with Hawaii nurseries and floriculture groups to form an umbrella
organization to help Hawai‘i nursery products compete in a global market.
The
Garden Island
Kaua‘i residents, including Virginia Beck of the Kaua‘i Veterans
Memorial Hospital Foundation, have come out in support of Kaua‘i Community
College’s nursing program in efforts to address the state’s nursing
shortage crisis.
Los
Angeles Times
UH Mānoa botanist Will McClatchey weighs in on the popularity of the
use of exotic fruits in products and their promised “super powers” to
fight cancer, boost immunity, and extend your life span.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A new voluntary “College and Career Ready Diploma” offered by
the Hawai‘i Board of Education is supported by the University of Hawaii
as it increases rigor for Hawai‘i’s high school students and
will ensure they are prepared to succeed beyond high school.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The vision of a new culinary school at the former Cannon Club site on the
slopes of Diamond Head for Kapi‘olani Community College is one step
closer with the completion of a draft environmental assessment report that
was recently released for public comment.
Pacific
Business News
UH West O‘ahu will offer the state’s only undergraduate degree
in health care administration beginning this fall, which is designed to address
a demand for health care managers in Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KITV
The UH Mānoa campus will serve as a demonstration site for a new energy-generating
wind turbine, which has been placed on the top floor of Saunders Hall and
was developed as an alternative energy source for use in urban areas.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization recently released
a revised construction forecast for the state, which reports that O‘ahu
home prices should drop slightly this year and construction income and employment
will slow.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A study co-authored by Dr. Jerris Hedges, new dean of the John A. Burns School
of Medicine, has found that African Americans, Pacific Islanders and Asians
have a higher risk than Caucasians of dying in hospitals after suffering
injuries.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
By this fall, undergraduate students at UH Hilo studying astronomy will get
a better view of the sky thanks to a new, bigger telescope that will be placed
on Mauna Kea, replacing an older telescope that was the first to be placed
there in 1968.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa will hold a series of events
that will address why “Diversity Matters at Mānoa,” through
lectures, workshops, performances, and film screenings, March 10-14.
East
Oahu People, KITV
Students, faculty and staff at Kapi‘olani Community College were inspired
by the story of Aiea High School student and leukemia patient Andrew Sato,
and planned a special “culinary student for a day” event for
him at the campus before his passing.
The
New York Times (Dot Earth Blog)
A new study by University of Hawai‘i and NOAA researchers shows human-caused
global warming may be the cause of a rapid recent expansion of desert-like
barrenness in the Earth’s oceans, areas that are relatively plankton-free,
and thus fish-free.
The
Garden Island
Grand Buffet, an annual spring event at Kaua‘i Community College, is
a showcase for the college’s culinary arts students and a feast for
the island’s residents.
Honolulu
Advertiser
MA‘O Farms in Wai‘anae is recruiting for its College Internship
Program, which provides young people with tutoring, mentoring and employment
at the organic farm for two years while they attend Leeward Community College,
tuition-paid, to earn an associate’s degree.
Maui
News
Maui Community College auto mechanics student Lyndsay Rae Quiocho and UH
Mānoa early childhood education student Kau‘i Lahela Souza earned
top honors at the recent 2008 Miss Maui and Miss ‘Ulalena Scholarship
Pageant.
KHNL
University of Hawai‘i doctors have identified a gene that appears to
protect women from getting addicted to nicotine, and there’s hope the
finding could help pregnant women desperately trying to quit smoking.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Leeward Community College is holding its 15th Annual International Education
Festival, March 12-15, which features lectures and presentation on globalization
and a culminating festival with food, music, dance and cultural demonstrations.
Leeward
People 3/5
In response to a growing student body, the University of Hawai‘i—West
O‘ahu has expanded its Student Services Department to include seven
new team members.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The 4th Annual Hawai‘i State Science Olympiad took place recently at
Leeward Community College with students from Hawai‘i middle schools
and high schools participating in a variety of science competitions.
MidWeek
MidWeek Editor Don Chapman provides a lighthearted and humorous look at planning
for death, which includes his application as a donor to the John A. Burns
School of Medicine’s Willed Body Program.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News, KHNL
The University of Hawai‘i contributes more than $1.66 billion to the
state’s economy, according to a recent study completed by UH Hilo economist
David Hammes.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Margo Edwards, a senior research scientist and director of the Hawai‘i
Mapping Research Group at UH Mānoa, and Roger Davis, a software engineer
and computer programmer for the group, are a husband and wife team mapping
ocean floors around the world.
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