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September
2008
Pacific
Business News
The new U.S. Department of Homeland Security center of excellence at UH Mānoa,
called the National Center for Island, Maritime and Extreme Environment Security,
opens this week and will perform basic research in areas that will improve safeguards
in island and extreme environments.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Windward Community College showcases the talent of its art students—and
the art instructors who educate them—in "Confluence," a diverse
exhibit featuring ceramics, drawings, paintings, photography and other pieces
through October 8 at Gallery Iolani.
Honolulu
Advertiser
From university to farm to market, Hawai‘i food specialists agree the
state is far away from reaching food self-sufficiency, but Andrew Hashimoto,
dean of UH Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources,
thinks the state has made great strides in growing certain foods and can
do more.
KHNL, KHNL
The 28th annual Hawai‘i International Film Festival runs throughout
the month of October, and this year's event features a record number of works
from UH Mānoa students, including three films created in collaboration
with students from Shanghai University’s School of Film and Television
Art & Technology.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Kaneohe Business Group held an auction during the recent Windward Ho‘olaule‘a
to raise funds for a scholarship endowment, the first of its kind started
by community members, to help students seeking higher education at Windward
Community College.
Central
Oahu People
Dr. Linda M. Randall recently joined UH West O‘ahu as Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs, responsible for overseeing all of the campus’ academic
programs, curriculum and faculty development and supporting innovations in
learning and teaching.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KGMB, KHON
The best way to save a cardiac arrest victim outside of a hospital is to
administer CPR, but according to a study co-authored by Dr. Jerris Hedges,
dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, bystanders perform CPR less
than a third of the time, unless you live in Seattle.
West
Oahu People
Makakilo resident Dr. Alan Rosenfeld has joined the teaching ranks at UH
West O‘ahu to support the campus' growing four-year baccalaureate academic
program in humanities as an assistant professor of history.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
UH Hilo's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is going for a one-time $1 million
endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation that will allow it to continue
to provide learning opportunities to learners aged 50 and over at sites in
East and North Hawai‘i, and over time, extend its offerings to West
and South Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Dr. Peter Crouch, dean of the College of Engineering at UH Mānoa, shares
his thoughts on the role of engineering in Hawai‘i and how he hopes
the college can play a bigger role in helping to diversify the state’s
economy.
Astronomy
Magazine, Science
Daily
Using data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), a team
of scientists including Harald Ebeling of UH’s Institute for Astronomy
have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters caused by
the gravitational attraction of matter that lies beyond the observable universe.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
A panel of international women leaders from top universities across the globe,
including UH Hilo Chancellor Rose Tseng and UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia
Hinshaw, gathered at UH Hilo recently to discuss the accomplishments and
challenges they’ve shared.
Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i Applied Research Laboratory has received
its first task order, an $850,000 award sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers for what is to be called the Wai‘anae Ordnance Reef Remedial
Investigation Project.
Pacific
Business News
UH Hilo’s Na Pua Noeau program has received a $1 million Office of
Hawaiian Affairs grant to continue providing educational enrichment opportunities
to Native Hawaiian students in grades K-12.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa planetary scientist G. Jeffrey Taylor has been named the 2008
recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary
Science, which honors outstanding contributions by planetary scientists to
public understanding and enthusiasm for the field.
Maui
News
Maui County's paramedic corps recently grew by five thanks to a program that
allowed the EMTs to take classes on island and receive financial support
to complete the 18-month Mobile Intensive Care Technician program offered
through Kapi‘olani Community College.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
An international astronomy team that includes University of Hawai‘i
astronomer Harald Ebeling has reported a powerful collision of galaxy clusters
that has shown a clear separation between dark and ordinary matter, an important
find that provides more evidence about dark matter and its properties.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Dr. Doug Hiller, a Big Island orthopedic surgeon, has donated a piece of
equipment to the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo that could make the
school's exercise laboratory a leader among the nation's small colleges.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The UH Mānoa School of Social Work is now the Myron B. Thompson School
of Social Work following approval by the UH Board of Regents to honor the
UH Mānoa alumnus for his lifelong work to improve the health, education
and well-being of Native Hawaiians and all of Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
Hawai‘i's economic outlook is pretty bleak for the next year, according
to a report released by the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research
Organization, and will be exacerbated by a slowdown in construction and a
developing state fiscal crunch.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Maui
News
Various UH Mānoa sites will feature exhibits as part of "Textiles
as Cultural Expressions," a program of 29 exhibits across Honolulu offering
a message about Hawai‘i’s culture being held in conjunction with
the Textile Society of America’s 11th Biennial Symposium.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Los
Angeles Times, New
York Times
After years of dismal reports about collapsing fish stocks and failed fisheries
management, University of Hawai‘i economist John Lynham and fellow
researchers say sharing, not competing, can make fishing safer, preserve
fish populations and even help stocks recover.
Honolulu
Advertiser
State Senator Norman Sakamoto and University of Hawai‘i Vice President
for Community Colleges John Morton are heading a task force charged with
developing a new budgetary system for the 10-campus university system.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa and the local medical community are mourning the passing of
Howard Frederick Mower, a professor of biochemistry at UH Mānoa for
46 years, who was noted for his excellence and devotion as a teacher, mentor
and environmentalist.
East
Oahu People
UH West O‘ahu has added two Mānoa residents, Drs. Paula Mathis
and David Pai, to the faculty to support the campus' growing four-year baccalaureate
academic programs in elementary education and professional studies, respectively.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Ezequiel Treister, a Chandra postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hawai‘i’s
Institute for Astronomy, and a colleague at Yale University have shown that
even the biggest of the universe’s black holes can’t keep growing
forever and actually curb their growth once they accumulate about 10 billion
times the mass of the Sun.
Pacific
Business News
Kapi‘olani Community College has received an award from the Hawai‘i
Tourism Authority to develop a comprehensive training program for Hawai‘i’s
visitor industry focused on applied Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages
and cultures.
Pacific
Business News
After spending two decades volunteering at the University of Hawai‘i,
Janet Bullard decided it was time to get paid for her efforts, taking on
the role of executive director of the University of Hawai‘i Alumni
Association with hopes of getting more former students involved with the
university.
KHNL
The John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH Mānoa has received federal
funding to study the impact of vog on children, allowing JABSOM’s Dr.
Elizabeth Tam to continue her research that she began in 2002.
Community
College Times
A study by the National Wildlife Federation recognizes Windward Community
College among a select group of colleges and universities across the country
for exceptional efforts in providing environmental and sustainability-related
courses and curriculums.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, KHNL Pacific
Business News
Fall enrollment at the University of Hawai‘i’s 10 campuses increased
5.3 percent over last fall, bringing UH’s total student body to an
all-time high of 53,509, a likely result of the slowing economy and the university’s
marketing efforts to reach more Hawai‘i high school students.
Midweek
Now in its seventh year, the Youth Leadership Training program of MA‘O
Farms offers internships to Leeward Community College students who learn
about money management and leadership while also gaining a greater appreciation
for the land and their culture.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Midweek
A story of love, war and ultimate sacrifice, Miss Saigon is among the longest-running
musicals of all time, and starting October 3, it comes to Windward Community
College’s Paliku Theatre under the direction of local theater icon
Ron Bright.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Jazz, pop and world music, as well as dance and drama, round out a diverse
entertainment menu as the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Performing
Arts Center opens its 2008-09 season this month.
KHNL, Pacific
Business News
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded more than
$2 million to Hawai‘i and Kaua‘i Community Colleges and the University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa to help improve neighborhoods, promote
affordable housing and stimulate community development.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resources explains itself in impressive fashion with "Hawai‘i's
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources: Celebrating the first
100 years," published to mark the school's centennial in 2007.
Maui
News
Donna Haytko-Paoa, a professor and coordinator of the university’s
Moloka‘i Education Center, has been honored with the Willard Wilson
Award for distinguished service to the University of Hawai‘i, an honor
that recognizes her relentless efforts to bring higher education opportunities
to the Friendly Isle.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KHNL
The UH Mānoa community is mourning the passing of composer, musician,
writer and educator of all things Hawaiian, George Terry "Kanalu" Young,
who was the third professor to be hired for the Center for Hawaiian Studies
and was most well known for his writings about the lesser chiefs in the Hawaiian
culture.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Department of Music at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
has awarded scholarships to 59 music students for the current academic year
based on academic merit, musical accomplishment, financial need, and service
to the department.
Maui
News
The Margaret Follett Haskins (Maui) Scholarship Fund that helps Maui Community
College associate degree graduates continue their education has received
a gift of nearly $69,000 from Walter D. Haskins Jr., who established the
Maui scholarship and another, for any University of Hawai‘i four-year
campus, in memory of his late wife.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i oceanographers were featured recently on the
Discovery Channel in "Hungry Oceans," part of a new series titled "Discovery
Project Earth," that featured their experiment aimed at triggering surface
algal blooms to reduce atmospheric carbon.
Maui
News
University of Hawai‘i’s astronomers with the Institute for Astronomy
are enjoying their first observations from the Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on
Haleakala, which was designed to identify and track objects in the solar
system, particularly asteroids and comets whose orbits could bring them uncomfortably
close to Earth.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KHON
UH Mānoa
researchers are part of a team that has identified a gene that increases
the odds of living a long, healthy life, and their findings were published
recently in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa and Kapi‘olani Community College students are among a
group of volunteers who recently helped retrofit buses donated by Roberts
Hawai‘i into mobile shelters for the homeless.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Nine new faculty members in the College of Pharmacy started the new school
year at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, helping to grow the staff
from about 15 to 32 in the one year since the first student began studying
for a doctorate in pharmacy in Hilo.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Scientists with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s College
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources have designed and built a device
to kill invasive pests using hot air and hot water, an invention they call
the “hot shower treatment chamber.”
Maui
News
The University of Hawai‘i’s Institute for Astronomy will hold
a first anniversary open house at Maikalani, the IfA's Maui Advanced Technology
Research Center, which is the support facility for IfA observatories on the
Haleakala summit.
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