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January
2009
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Hawai‘i needs better broadband speed and access to stay competitive,
according to a recommendation made to state leaders by the Hawai‘i
Broadband Task Force, which is led by University of Hawai‘i Vice President
for Information Technology David Lassner.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Dr. Amy Brown of the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Department
of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is seeking participants for a dietary
study on Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that
has no known cause or cure.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A two-chef American team including islander and Kapi‘olani Community
College culinary graduate Adina Guest came in sixth place recently in the
Bocuse d’Or in Lyon, France, a two-day biennial global culinary contest
considered the Olympics of cooking.
East
Oahu People
The study abroad program at Kapi‘olani Community College is now taking
applications for its summer program in France, which gives students a chance
to explore the French countryside and learn the language and culture firsthand
while also earning college credits.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The University of Hawai‘i’s Advisory Presidential Selection Committee
hopes to begin reviewing potential candidates for the UH president’s
position by February 20 and have a new president installed by the time current
UH President David McClain leaves office at the end of July.
Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i’s Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i
hopes to break ground on its long-awaited Kaka‘ako research and clinical
trials facility in mid-2010 with an opening date in late 2012 or early 2013,
university officials told legislators at a recent briefing.
Pacific
Business News
UH Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw has appointed a search committee to
find a new director for the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, a position
that became vacant when longtime director Carl-Wilhelm Vogel resigned from
the position in November.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
An estimated 600 Big Island students were on the UH Hilo campus recently
learning about science, space exploration and the experiences of a real NASA
astronaut at the 2009 Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Science Day
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
University of Hawaii officials hope federal economic stimulus money will
help its 10 campuses repair crumbling buildings and replace outdated air-conditioning
and electrical systems, as well as help fund other capital improvements needs.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Amy Agbayani, founding director of UH Mānoa’s Student Equity,
Excellence and Diversity program, has been named among five “Living
Treasures of Hawaii” for their contributions to Hawaii’s distinctive
cultural and artistic heritage.
Pacific
Business News
Seventeen building projects planned for the UH Mānoa campus, which range
from new parking structures and faculty housing to a replacement gym and
expanding the law school’s library, have earned good environmental
grades, but finding money for them is another issue.
Pacific
Business News
Gifts from Vern and Cathi Yamanaka to UH Hilo and Victor Rittenband and Nancy
Gustafsson-Rittenband to UH Mānoa’s Department of Music and College
of Arts and Humanities will help create new scholarships for UH students.
Island Scene
For the past two and a half years, student volunteers from the Homeless Outreach
and Medical Education (HOME) project of the University of Hawai‘i John
A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) have provided basic health care at three
O‘ahu shelters while gaining valuable practice in clinical skills.
Boston
Globe, The
New York Times
UH Mānoa Emeritus Professor John DeFrancis, considered one of the most
influential scholars and teachers of Chinese language in the last century,
passed away recently at the age of 97.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, West
Oahu People
The University of Hawai‘i—West O‘ahu celebrated a decades-long
dream with the recent groundbreaking for its new campus in Kapolei, a project
that many hope will serve as an economic stimulus as well as bring higher
education closer to the residents of Leeward O‘ahu.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Former Peace Corps worker Linda Fujikawa, a Japanese-language professor,
was recognized with a national award recently for starting the International
Café, a service club that brings together international, mainland
and local students at Kapi‘olani Community College.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Preparatory work is beginning on a $25 million science and technology building
at UH Hilo that will bring the university's aging science facilities up to
date when finished in August 2010.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB
The University of Hawai‘i cheerleading team earned a spread in American
Cheerleader magazine and will go to MTV’s Spring Break 2009 after winning “RAH!
Paula Abdul’s Cheerleading Bowl,” an MTV competition that aired
earlier this month.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i medical school is looking for 1,000 O‘ahu
families to participate in a $3 billion nationwide research project that
is the biggest and most comprehensive long-term health study ever.
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