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July
2008
Windward
People
This year’s Windward Ho‘olaule‘a, coordinated by Windward
Community College and the Kāne‘ohe Business Group, is scheduled
for Saturday, Sept. 27, and will feature arts and crafts, food booths, a
silent auction, and displays and activities to showcase Windward Community
College's programs.
The
Garden Island
Kaua‘i Community College recently opened the doors to its One-Stop
Center, which now gives the college a front door and brings together the
offices of the chancellor, student counseling, business, financial aid and
student services, in order to better serve students and campus visitors.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald, KHNL
A team of astronomers from the University of Hawai‘i Institute for
Astronomy has found direct evidence of “dark energy,” an unknown
form that works against gravity to pull galaxies together which
causes the universe's expansion to speed up.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo will revive its Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC) program this fall, prompted in part by interest expressed by
students enrolled in high school programs both locally and on the mainland,
as well as UH Hilo undergraduates.
Maui
News, Maui
Weekly
Rotary clubs on Maui will sell custom-engraved clay bricks, which will be
installed near sidewalks and the new swing set at Kama‘ole Beach Park
III in Kihei, with proceeds to go towards a scholarship fund for teacher
candidates at Maui Community College.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Russ Oda, the grandson of pioneer immigrants to Hawai‘i, and his wife
Aki, have established an endowment fund at UH Hilo in memory of his grandmother,
Keru Oda, to benefit students in need of financial support.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
Carlsmith Ball LLP, the state's oldest and largest Hawai‘i-based law
firm, has announced a gift of $150,000 to the William S. Richardson School
of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa to support faculty
research and scholarship for professors.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
With a $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, researchers at UH
Mānoa hope to gain a greater understanding of how life may have emerged
on Earth by comprehending the chemical evolution of the solar system.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded the
University of Hawai‘i with a $5 million donation for its planned Culinary
Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head in support of its efforts to take
its culinary arts programs beyond the two-year degree.
ABC
News (Australia), Cosmos
Magazine
Jeffrey Taylor, a planetary geologist with the Hawai‘i Institute of
Geophysics and Planetology at UH Mānoa, says not only is Mars made from
different ingredients than Earth, but it’s possible that humans will
be living on Mars within the next 25 years.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Community College’s Auto Academy, a partnership with Cutter
Automotive Group and First Hawaiian Bank, is helping high school students
get a jump start on college and hands-on experience through automotive internships.
ABC
News (Australia), Cosmos
Magazine
Jeffrey Taylor, a planetary geologist with the Hawai‘i Institute of
Geophysics and Planetology at UH Mānoa, says not only is Mars made from
different ingredients than Earth, but it’s possible that humans will
be living on Mars within the next 25 years.
Leeward
People
UH West O‘ahu will offer its new degree in healthcare administration
this fall, the only undergraduate program of its kind in the state, and it
will be available online allowing students to learn at their own time and
pace.
Maui
News
Maui educators from schools participating in the Construction Academy, a
statewide program administered by the UH Community Colleges to enhance construction
curriculum and training opportunities, got some training of their own through
a weeklong “Tools of the Trade” program.
East
Oahu People
Ann Nishimoto, a former facilities planning manager at Kamehameha Schools,
has joined the staff of UH West O‘ahu as vice chancellor for administrative
affairs where she will serve as the campus’ chief administrative and
financial officer.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Dr. David Karl, an oceanographer at UH Mānoa, has received a $3.79 million
grant to continue and expand his research on microbial inhabitants of the
world’s oceans from The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Maui
News
The Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows Program, operated by the Office of Continuing Education
at Maui Community College in an effort to educate Maui leaders on the county’s
most pressing issues, is currently accepting applications for its second
year.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Dan Weaver, a product of UH Mānoa’s Apparel, Product Design and
Merchandising Program, is making a name for himself through collaborative
fashion shows around Oahu and his own recent fall fashion show.
East
Oahu People
Kapi‘olani Community College is currently hosting the Hawai‘i
showing of "Key Ingredients: America by Food," a Smithsonian Institution
traveling exhibit that looks at the impact food has had on historical, regional
and social traditions in America.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
UH Hilo has begun a national search for a new athletic director, a position
that oversees the campus’ 13 NCAA Division II sports teams.
MidWeek
Culinary Institute of the Pacific Director Conrad Nonaka talks about how
he got started in the industry and Hawai‘i’s inaugural Restaurant
Week, scheduled for November 16-22, with proceeds to benefit the Culinary
Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head.
Lahaina News
The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui at Maui Community College will host
its first Maui Island Sustainable Living Expo, August 16-17, to explore some
of the most pressing challenges to island sustainability.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Dr. Terence A. Rogers, who founded the University of Hawai‘i’s
John A. Burns School of Medicine with a concept of enabling nontraditional
and disadvantaged students to pursue medical careers, has passed away at
the age of 83.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A children's production tapping puppetry with an environmental message, a
bloody Shakespearean tragedy, a Japanese noh drama and a dance concert will
be the mainstage attractions in the 2008-09 drama season at UH Mānoa’s
Kennedy Theatre.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, KHNL, KHON
The University of Hawai‘i mourns the passing of Army 1st Lieutenant
Jonathan Brostrom, an honors graduate of the UH Army ROTC program, who was
killed recently in the line of duty in Afghanistan.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH Mānoa has received a gift
of $1.7 million from the John A. Burns Foundation to create an endowed scholarship
fund for first-year medical students.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Three former Rainbow Wahine volleyball players will be representing the United
States as part of the U.S. Olympic Team at the Beijing Olympics—setter
Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (1993-96), middle Heather Bown (1998-99) and outside
hitter Kim Willoughby (2000-03).
West
Oahu People
Kapi‘olani Community College chef instructor Grant Sato has volunteered
every summer for the past five years to teach Campbell High School students
how to cook while also providing them with important life and job skills.
KGMB
With no relief in sight from the pain of gasoline prices, more local drivers
are turning to motorcycles as their means of transportation, and Leeward
Community College’s motorcycle training course is benefiting from the
newfound interest in two-wheeling.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KHNL
University of Hawai‘i President David McClain received a rating of “outstanding” by
the Board of Regents on his annual evaluation, the highest category in the
performance evaluation.
Honolulu
Advertiser
In a push toward more environmentally sustainable practices, UH Mānoa
is using pervious concrete to pave some of the walkways and areas around
student housing buildings, which can help reduce storm-water runoff and recharge
groundwater supplies.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Architect Russell Oda and his wife, Aki, have established a scholarship fund
at UH Hilo in honor of his grandmother, Keru, to benefit students in need
of financial aid.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa’s Lyon Arboretum is now open on Saturdays from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m., providing access especially for families to enjoy the 193-acre
tropical rain forest in Mānoa Valley.
The
Garden Island
Helen Cox reports to Kaua‘i Community College on August 12 as the new
chancellor, a coming home of sorts for the Oahu-born educator who has 25
years experience in higher education, most recently at Salt Lake Community
College in Utah.
Honolulu
Advertiser, West
Oahu People
Albert C. Kobayashi Inc. was chosen as the general contractor and design-assist
partner to build the first phase of the new UH West O‘ahu campus in
Kapolei.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
UH Hilo plans to use a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education
to build a campus resource center for Pacific Islanders that will provide
a space for peer mentoring, networking and tutoring in an effort to increase
the success and retention of Pacific Islands students.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Research conducted by a team of UH Mānoa scientists and published recently
in the journal Science has found that besides loading the atmosphere with
heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also
begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean.
Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo’s new Student Life Center is
expected to open this fall as the first building on the Big Island to earn
the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design Gold rating.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Retiring Kaua‘i Community College Chancellor Peggy Cha and her sisters
Jean Toyama and Bette Uyeda have established a scholarship fund in memory
of their parents to benefit students in financial need at Kaua‘i Community
College.
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Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa’s Shidler College of Business has received $250,000 from
UH business alumni living in Japan and Hong Kong to go towards scholarships
for international students from Asia and students studying in the Japan-focused
MBA program.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Science
Daily
For the first time, University of Hawai‘i astronomers have measured
the mass of brown dwarfs, objects that are smaller than stars but bigger
than gas planets like Jupiter, and did so using images from the Keck II Observatory
on Mauna Kea.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges have partnered with the
Workforce Investment Board to create a training fund for displaced workers
from Molokai Ranch, ATA Airlines, Aloha Airlines, Weyerhaeuser and NCL America.
Science
News, The
New York Times, Honolulu
Advertiser, KHNL
UH Mānoa graduate student Lindsay Young and colleagues have discovered
that the Laysan albatross employs a strategy called reciprocity, where unrelated
females pair together and take turns raising offspring, which was recently
published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Inmates from Maui Community Correctional Center got a taste of a career in
the culinary industry through a one-week culinary training program offered
through a partnership between Maui Community College and Maui Economic Opportunity.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Six students from UH Mānoa’s Academy for Creative Media were selected
to show their films at the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival,
and will shoot short films with Shanghai University students, establishing
the first U.S.-China student film co-production.
Pacific
Business News
Students in the UH Mānoa School of Travel Industry Management and at
UH community colleges statewide are benefiting from a summer intern program
sponsored by Marriott International in Hawai‘i that is also helping
to address the workforce challenges facing Hawai‘i’s tourism
industry.
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