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April
2008
Pacific
Business News
Maui Community College hopes that changing its name to University of Hawai‘i – Maui
College will allow the campus to better compete against larger universities as
it looks to expand its four-year degree offerings.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A first-ever survey of 890 buildings on the 10 University of Hawai‘i
campuses suggests a minimum of $60 million per year is needed to keep an
estimated $351.5 million backlog of repair projects from growing.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A new class of molecules that could curb the growth of cancer cells has been
discovered by University of Hawai‘i and Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
assistant professor Andre Bachmann and an international team of scientists.
Maui
Weekly
The Eighth Annual Sustainable Earth Celebration hosted by Maui Community
College brought together global leaders in sustainability and social justice
and presented powerful ideas that Maui County leaders hope will serve as
a catalyst for Maui’s sustainable future.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
The University of Hawai‘i is seeking public comment on a comprehensive
management plan for Mauna Kea, which when approved by the Board of Land and
Natural Resources, will provide a framework for the long-term conservation
of resources for the state's highest mountain.
Corvallis
Gazette Times
A degree partnership program between Oregon State University and Leeward
and Hawai‘i Community Colleges slated to begin this fall could see
even more students from the Aloha State enrolled at Oregon State.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Several Maui County parks are getting new benches thanks to students in King
Kekaulike High School’s Construction Academy, a program led by Maui
Community College.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
UH Mānoa’s Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute will lead a
three-year U.S. Department of Energy demonstration project to study Hawai‘i’s
energy infrastructure, which is part of a federal effort to modernize the
nation’s electricity grid.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Three candidates for the position of dean of the newly established Hawai‘inuiakea
School of Hawaiian Knowledge at UH Mānoa will be on campus April 28
to May 8 for interviews and public meetings.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, MSNBC, Science
Daily
UH Mānoa researchers have decoded the genome of the genetically modified “SunUp” papaya
with a team of more than 85 scientists from 22 institutions, making it the
first fruit species and the first transgenic crop to be sequenced, which
is expected to have far-reaching agricultural and economic effects.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Community College’s annual fashion show on May 4 promises
an eclectic mix of youthful exuberance and style as the college’s fashion
design students showcase their own original designs.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i unveiled its new football uniforms, the first
installment of attire in the Warriors’ eight-year deal with Under Armour.
Leeward
People
The College of Agriculture and Human Resources’ Urban Garden Center
in Pearl City is a useful resource for home gardeners, offering access to
university experts, information, exhibits and displays, and even a Master
Gardeners helpline.
Pacific
Business News
UH Manoa’s Shidler College of Business will begin offering a daytime
MBA program this fall, which is part of its effort to become a top-20 school
and to better compete with other business schools.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Waikīkī Aquarium, founded in 1904 and administered by the University
of Hawai‘i since 1919, is seeking volunteers to explain what’s
featured in exhibits and answer questions about Hawai‘i’s marine
life.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A four-year study led by the University of Hawai‘i’s Kewalo Marine
Laboratory has produced new insights into patterns of animal evolution.
Pacific
Business News, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Honolulu
Community College Chancellor Ramsey Pedersen will retire at the end of
June after seven years in the position and more than 30 years at the
college, while Kaua‘i Community College Chancellor Peggy Cha will
be retiring in the fall after 10 years in the position and more than
30 years in the University of Hawai‘i System.
Pacific
Business News
Kaua‘i Community College Chancellor Peggy Cha has been named a finalist
for Pacific Business News’ Businesswoman of the Year award, and is
recognized for nearly 30 years of service to the University of Hawai‘i
System.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The Hawai‘i Hyperbaric Treatment Center, which is run by the John A.
Burns School of Medicine, is celebrating 25 years of service to divers with
decompression illness and patients with other medical conditions.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Beginning this fall, students at Windward Community College will take higher
education to new heights as the college offers Hawai‘i’s first
certificate in subtropical urban tree care, which aims to ease a state shortage
of qualified arborists.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
An Oregon research team that included UH Mānoa John A. Burns School
of Medicine assistant clinical professor Jared Acoba recently announced a
breakthrough that identifies a genetic mechanism for eliminating cancer cells.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Maui Community College is proposing to build a new two-story, 40,000-square-foot
science building that will incorporate sustainable design elements and technologies.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Seniors and juniors in the UH Mānoa Apparel Product Design and Merchandising
department take their designs from the classroom to the runway when they
host their annual fashion show at the Sheraton Waikiki on April 27.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, KHON, KITV
The University of Hawai‘i held a test of its emergency alert system
at the UH Mānoa campus on the day before the anniversary of the Virginia
Tech shootings to raise awareness of the system that includes a public address
system and text message alerts.
Honolulu
Advertiser
An increase in motorcycle use by baby boomers and those trying to escape
high gas prices is keeping instructors in Leeward Community College’s
motorcycle safety classes busy.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Hilo business professor Sarah Blanchard has launched a new monthly publication,
The Hawai‘i Horse Journal, for the state’s horse-loving community.
Pacific
Business News
Five graduate programs at UH Mānoa made it onto the Faculty Scholarly
Productivity Index, which ranks instructors based on books and scientific
papers published, federal research grants awarded and honors received.
Pacific
Business News
A new tuition installment payment plan provided by the University of Hawai‘i
is allowing students to pay as they learn, providing the more than 4,000
students who have signed up for the program a low-cost alternative to pay
for their tuition.
The
Garden Island
Kaua‘i Community College’s Spring Gourmet Gala welcomed nearly
450 guests to its annual event, which featured the college’s culinary
students working alongside high school students, local businesses and Hawai‘i
chefs Alan Wong and George “Chef Mavro” Mavrothalassitis.
MidWeek
Patricia Wood, who is working toward a PhD in education at UH Mānoa,
is the author of “LOTTERY,” a best-selling novel about a mentally
challenged man who wins the lottery and all the happiness and hazards that
go along with it.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources will celebrate its
100th birthday with an open house event on Saturday, April 26, at the UH
Mealani Experiment Station in Waimea on the Big Island.
MidWeek
Leeward Community College’s annual culinary event, L‘Ulu (formerly
known as Taste of the Stars), is a star-studded evening outdoors at the campus
featuring some of the top chefs in town.
Los
Angeles Times, USA
Today, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i graduate student Francoise Paquay has found that
the huge asteroid crash believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million
years ago was only about half the size of previous estimates through a method
he developed analyzing deep-ocean sediments.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Kapi‘olani Community College’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific
is on its way to realizing a new facility on the slopes of Diamond Head with
a main building that will be open to the public for dining, lectures, cooking
competitions and demonstrations.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
National autism expert Patricia Wright, who earned her doctorate from UH
Mānoa, is now the national director of autism for Easter Seals and was
recently in Hawai‘i to train Easter Seals Hawaii therapists and conduct
workshops.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
A cast of more than 50 students and community members will bring the stage
musical and popular 1978 film to life in the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center’s
spring production of “Grease.”
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i medical students honored 75 “silent teachers” for
willing their bodies to the anatomy department for medical science and education
through the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Willed Body Program.
Science
Daily
Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i’s Institute for Astronomy
are collaborating with other scientists on the use of a medical x-ray technique
to produce the first detailed maps of the sun’s outermost layer, the
corona.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KGMB
The University of Hawai‘i is encouraging students at campuses across
the state to register for its emergency alert system
Honolulu
Advertiser
Leeward Community College alumnus Robert “Mick” Minicola is the
regional vice president of operations for HTH Corporation, which includes
the Pacific Beach Hotel and Pagoda Hotel and Floating Restaurant.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A prototype telescope for the array of four telescopes planned in what is
called the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS,
is about to provide its first photos from Haleakala.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Timothy Moore of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, has been
named director of UH Hilo’s new Student Life Center, a 22,600-foot
facility that will provide students with a wide range of health, fitness
and recreational activities when completed.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Anthropologists at UH Hilo are using various instruments to analyze early
Hawaiian stone tools, shedding light on their origins and possibly uncovering
evidence of their use across the Pacific.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The UH Mānoa art department recently held an open house event, ArtMania,
featuring live art demonstrations, student and faculty artwork for sale,
T-shirts, music and a fashion show.
Pacific
Business News
The William S. Richardson School of Law at UH Mānoa moved up nine spots
to No. 82 in the ranking of American law schools in U.S. News & World
Report’s annual “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Hawai‘i Community College's Alpha Psi Epsilon Chapter of Phi Theta
Kappa International Honor Society recently attended the Pacific Regional
Convention in Honolulu, where members were recognized with chapter and individual
awards.
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH Mānoa horticulturalist Bernard Kratky was recently honored with a
top national agricultural award for his study on a new method of growing
lettuce hydroponically by the American Society of Plasticulture.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
“Anita the Beekeeper” is part of the “GRLS R GR8 Mini-Film
Festival” put on by the UH Mānoa Outreach College featuring films
celebrating the achievements, challenges and adventures of girls.
Los
Angeles Times
The Pa‘ina Food Court at Maui Community College, operated by the Maui
Culinary Academy, is hailed as one of the best places on Maui to eat for
under $20 by the Los Angeles Times and a panel of Maui food experts.
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH West O‘ahu student volunteers will offer free assistance for low-income
taxpayers with federal and state tax returns in partnership with Volunteer
Legal Services Hawai‘i on Saturday, April 12.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Dr. Robert Desowitz, professor emeritus of the John A. Burns School of Medicine,
was an eminent teacher and researcher in the field of infectious diseases
and public health and noted author of science books for nonscientists.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Gov. Linda Lingle has forwarded the names of five nominees for the University
of Hawai‘i Board of Regents to the state Senate for confirmation, including
current board member Kitty Lagareta.
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