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December
2008
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie will deliver the keynote address at the UH Hilo
fall commencement on Saturday, Dec. 20, at 9 a.m. at the UH-Hilo New Gym
as nearly 200 students will receive degrees.
Honolulu
Advertiser
University of Hawai‘i Emeritus Regent Ah Quon McElrath, a noted labor
union and social activist who helped shape the history of labor and social
justice in Hawai‘i, passed away recently at the age of 92.
Scientific
American
Scientists at UH Mānoa have found a way to defang a key protein in cobra
venom, a method that could prove it to be effective in suppressing inflammatory
chemicals involved in several difficult-to-treat ailments, such as rheumatoid
arthritis,
Honolulu
Advertiser
Marking its sixth year of success, the UH Mānoa Native Hawaiian Science
and Engineering Mentorship Program (NHSEMP) has made leaps and strides towards
its goal of inspiring excellence among students of underrepresented ethnicities
in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Matthew Patterson of Hilo, a UH Mānoa student majoring in electrical
engineering and a Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard student trainee was recently
named the UH 2008 Cooperative Education Program Engineering Student of the
Year.
Science
Daily
A team of astronomers led by John Johnson of the Institute for Astronomy
has used a new technique to measure the precise size of a planet around a
distant star, using a camera so sensitive that it could detect the passage
of a moth in front of a lit window from a distance of 1,000 miles.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Windward Community College announces the Hokulani Imaginarium's holiday show, "Star
of Bethlehem: The Magi's Story," which explores some of the astronomical
possibilities for the Star that guided the Wise Men to Bethlehem.
Honolulu
Star
Recent University of Hawai‘i graduate Jason “C.J.” Chen
has launched a startup company that aims to help Hawai‘i businesses
get their Web and media content to the emerging Chinese tourism market.
The
Garden Island
Kaua‘i Community College received an early Christmas present from the
managers of Alexander & Baldwin’s subsidiaries on Kaua‘i
recently when they presented Chancellor Helen Cox with a $10,000 check for
the college.
Honolulu
Researchers with the University of Hawai‘i’s Infrasound Laboratory
are setting up an underwater observatory off the coast of the Big Island
that will allow them to hear deep-sea earthquakes, erupting volcanoes and
whale songs.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Kapi‘olani Community College recently celebrated the opening of the
renovated Palolo Ohana Learning Center, which will play a crucial role in
the college’s current efforts to provide tutoring, computer training
and other services to Palolo Valley residents through its service-learning
program.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Mary Bitterman, president of the Bernard Osher Foundation, will address graduates
at the UH Mānoa mid-year commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 20,
as just over 1,100 students will receive bachelor's degrees, and more than
600 will receive master's and doctor's degrees, and post-baccalaureate certificates
in secondary education.
The
Arizona Daily Wildcat
University of Hawai‘i astronomer Robert Jedicke takes his act across
Hawai‘i and even to Arizona, putting a holiday twist on the theory
of relativity and its proven yet bizarre effects as he explains if Santa
Claus is really able to visit all the good little boys and girls of the world
in one night.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Mānoa’s School of Travel Industry Management has a change in
leadership at a critical time for the slumping tourism industry, as Walter
Jamieson has left his post as dean after fulfilling a five-year term that
began in 2003 and was replaced by Professor Juanita Liu, who took over as
interim dean on November 1.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
A new agreement between the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and a Taiwanese
academy of sciences lays the groundwork for a new, small telescope on the
Big Island while also providing money for astronomy education and related
studies.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Big Island could become the center of the universe for U.S. space projects,
according to Frank Schowengerdt, director of the Pacific International Space
Center for Exploration Systems, or PISCES, an international research and
education center at UH Hilo.
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