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November
2008
Honolulu
Advertiser
A team of researchers at the University of Hawai‘i recently completed
the first documented baseline compilation of all snail and slug species
associated with Hawai‘i’s horticultural industry designed
to help the state deal with its ongoing problem of invasive species.
Los
Angeles Times
Chefs Martina Hilldorfer and William Gibson of the Culinary Arts Program
at Kaua‘i Community College were the main sources of information for
a Los Angeles Times’ list of 20 Kaua‘i meals for less than $20.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
The Center on Aging at UH Mānoa has received a gift of $2 million to
establish the Barbara Cox Anthony Chair in Aging, in honor of the late philanthropist
and Hawai‘i resident.
Windward
People
Windward Community College’s Gallery ‘Iolani presents “A
Christmas Fantasy” art-and-craft fundraiser with everything in the
gallery up for sale for the holidays, including prints, paintings, photographs,
wood carvings, jewelry, stained glass and more.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Maui Community College has received a gift of $5,000 from the Lifeguard Charitable
Fund to purchase specialized digital x-ray equipment for the Maui Oral Health
Center and its mobile dental van.
Windward
People
Bebi Davis, a high school physics and chemistry teacher at Farrington High
School who received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
UH Mānoa and is currently working on her doctoral degree, was recently
named the 2009 Hawai‘i State Teacher of the Year.
MidWeek
Marylou Foley brings her many years of experience in tourism and marketing
to the Waikīkī Aquarium as the new director of community outreach
and hopes to increase awareness of Hawai‘i’s oceanic resources
and the prime visitor attraction.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
UH Hilo has raised nearly $11 million towards its goal of $15 million as
part of the University of Hawai‘i Centennial Campaign, and monies raised
are supporting student scholarships, faculty research and creative new programs.
The
Garden Island
The word of artist and Kaua‘i native Ray Yoshida is on display at Kaua‘i
Community College’s new One Stop Center, and was recently dedicated
during a special ceremony attended by the artist and his family.
Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i has exceeded its fundraising goal of $250
million set for its Centennial Campaign and the UH Foundation will continue
the campaign celebrating the 10-campus system’s 100 years through June
2009.
Pacific
Business News
University of Hawai‘i economists say the state is in a recession that
will remain “deep and drawn out” at least through 2009.
KFVE
During tough economic times, college students are getting creative in order
to save money, like University of Hawai‘i student Kevin Cronin who
goes online to find money-saving offers that have helped him save nearly
$1,000.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Pacific
Business News
Dr. Michele Carbone, an internationally respected scientist who is also considered
to be the premier authority on mesothelioma, a deadly cancer associated with
asbestos exposure, has been named the interim director of the university’s
Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i planetary researcher Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, a
member of the science team for the Messenger space missions to Mercury, recommended
the naming of a crater on Mercury as Nawahi Crater in honor of Native Hawaiian
teacher, lawyer, and journalist Joseph Nawahi.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
GEAR UP Hawai‘i, a federal program to increase the number of low-income
students in college, will award $1 million in tuition assistance to Hawai‘i
high school students starting in 2013 through the GEAR UP Tuition Assistance
Trust.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Maui
News, Pacific
Business News
According to the latest report released by the University of Hawai‘i
Economic Research Organization (UHERO), Hawai‘i is already in a recession,
which will stretch through most of 2009.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawai‘i Professor David Curb, the Hawai‘i investigator
on the Women’s Health Initiative, says data shows women who smoke are
eight times more likely than nonsmokers to suffer a potentially fatal rupture
of the body’s largest artery, the aorta.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KITV
Students from Kapi‘olani Community College took top honors at the fifth
annual Tom and Warren Matsuda Scholarship Culinary Competition, which is
underwritten by Roy's Restaurant and was established to support culinary
education in Hawai‘i through the Culinary Institute of the Pacific
and its programs statewide.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The PATH Clinic, founded by Dr. Tricia Wright of the John A. Burns School
of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s
Health, has served more than 100 pregnant women with addictions and had 42
deliveries since opening last April.
KHNL
University of Hawai‘i alums who graduated in 1958 recently gathered
to celebrate 50 years of golden memories and for the opportunity to see the
big changes to their alma mater since they were students.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Some 6,733 people were in homeless shelters statewide in 2007, a 19 percent
increase over the year before that's largely attributed to more shelters
opening around the state, according to a new report by the UH Center on the
Family designed to give service providers a big-picture look at the clients
they're helping.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A project by the UH Mānoa Sustainable Saunders Initiative will save
Saunders Hall about $15,000 a year and was accomplished at no cost by removing
more than 2,000 light bulbs from light fixtures as a way to cut energy use
and improve workplace conditions.
Pacific
Business News
Honolulu law firm Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher will give $100,000
to the University of Hawai‘i’s William S. Richardson School of
Law to establish a scholarship fund and sponsor the school’s nationally-recognized
moot court program.
KGMB
A new Hawai‘i-Taiwan joint partnership in undergraduate education,
community outreach and astronomy research stemming from the Taiwan-American
Occultation Survey (TAOS) will involve the Academia Sinica and the University
of Hawai‘i at Hilo.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KHNL, TIME
Magazine, U.S.
News & World Report
A University of Hawai‘i study finds that much of the nation's fast
food comes from corn, as the vast majority of the cows and chickens served
at McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's were raised on corn, and sizzling
corn oil cooked many of the fries.
KHON
Enrollment at the University of Hawai‘i’s community colleges
is soaring, as people look to improve their chances of keeping or finding
good jobs.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Hawai‘i tourism is expected to be hit even harder next year by a widespread
global recession that is expected to be the deepest since 1991, according
to a new report by the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and Hawai‘i Community College
are celebrating International Education Week, November 17-21, with the theme "Experience
South Asia: A Journey Awaits You!"
Honolulu
Advertiser, KHNL
Nearly $3.8
million has been released to complete the design of the new University
of Hawai‘i Information Technology Center, which will provide the
university with its first properly designed and supported facility to
house all of its information technology resources servicing its 10 campuses
statewide.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Groundbreaking for a new University of Hawai‘i—West O‘ahu
campus is scheduled for January 14 after the Honolulu City Council recently
approved a zoning change that will allow the Kapolei facility to be built.
East
Oahu People
More than 40 different eateries have signed on to participate in the inaugural
Restaurant Week Hawai‘i, November 16 through 22, with a portion of
the proceeds from sales at participating restaurants going towards the proposed
new Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head facility.
Central
Oahu People
On Sunday, Nov. 23, Honolulu Community College cosmetology students will
cut hair for free as part of a service-learning project in support of the
nonprofit organization, Locks of Love, which provides hairpieces to financially
disadvantaged children 18 years and younger with medical hair loss.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
Honolulu businessman Jay Shidler is adding to his gifts to the University
of Hawai‘i’s business school with a $3 million donation to underwrite
its new master's degree in financial engineering, including the offering
of $750,000 in scholarships during the program's first three years.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
In a stunning display of teamwork and coordination, Hawai‘i spinner
dolphins herd their food through elaborate choreography and share equally
in the feast, according to a discovery made with high-tech acoustics by University
of Hawai‘i and Oregon State University researchers.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Students in Honolulu Community College’s Emergency Response to
Hazardous Materials course tested their skills recently during a mock
emergency on the campus that included a chemical spill, a “death,” and
students playing the role of first responders in their chemical protective “moon
suits.”
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH Mānoa’s Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge plans
to work with the Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center to restore a East Honolulu
fishpond known as Kalauha‘eha‘e, or Lucas Spring, and is proposing
to provide educational and research programs at the site and help raise money
for restoring the pond.
Pacific
Business News
University of Hawai‘i law students are helping Iraqi law professors
and students in support of legal initiatives and scholarships in the war-torn
country, working on a number of research projects for Baghdad University’s
College of Law through a project called the Hammurabi Legal Forum.
The
Garden Island
Kaua‘i Community College’s Office of Continuing Education and
Training is working to bring the Hawai‘i Motorcycle Safety Education
Program, already offered at Leeward Community College, to Kaua‘i as
an increasing number of motorcycles, mopeds and other “street bikes” are
being seen on Kaua‘i’s highways.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Licensing revenues for University of Hawai‘i logo products nearly doubled
last year, largely due to sales of Sugar Bowl merchandise after the UH Warrior
football team received an invitation to the Bowl Championships Series event
in New Orleans.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Navy-sponsored Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawai‘i
has received a $1 million military contract to help develop technology to
detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs), such as roadside bombs, before
they detonate.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Whitlow W. L. Au, chief scientist in the Marine Mammal Research Program at
UH Mānoa’s Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology has been
elected president-elect of the Acoustical Society of America, the premier
international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and
technology of sound.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Freeman Foundation has provided additional support to the University
of Hawai‘i Community Colleges to allow students to immerse themselves
in the cultures and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam through
study abroad opportunities.
Honolulu
Advertiser
“Pacific Clues,” a nine-part television series made for the Teleschool
Branch of the state Department of Education, explores cultures and stories
from around the Pacific featuring the work of University of Hawai‘i anthropology
faculty, students and alumni.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The annual Leeward Community College Family Fun Fair celebrates its 18th
year of providing families with a fun-filled day of games, interactive exhibits,
food, and entertainment on Saturday, Nov. 15, with a "Going Green" theme
promoting sustainability and environmental responsibility.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Using acoel flatworms, two UH Mānoa scientists have contributed to research
that helps answer an evolutionary question about how early organisms developed
a "through-gut," with separate orifices for a mouth and an anus.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Officials from the UH Mānoa Center for Korean Studies recently announced
that more than $600,000 toward the $1 million challenge match has been raised
for a $2 million Center for Korean Students Rotating Chair Endowment supported
by the Korea Foundation.
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