June 2009
KGMB
UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw shares plans for UH Mānoa’s “Green
Days” initiative to cut back on energy use at the Mānoa campus
in an effort to be more sustainable and save money.
KITV
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa professor and chair of the Department
of Theatre and Dance, W. Dennis Carroll, received the 2009 Robert W. Clopton
Award for Distinguished Community Service.
KHON
Nat Stanton, a young Honolulu piano player who has Tourette’s Syndrome
and has spent his entire school life in special education programs is one
of just a handful of students accepted into the University of Hawai‘i
piano program for the upcoming school year.
The
Maui News
At a time when jobs are scarce and money is tight, Maui Community College
is looking to spend more and hire more instructors to teach a record number
of students as enrollment is up by 56 percent, with 2,837 students set to
attend this fall, and registration hasn’t closed yet.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KGMB, KITV
Raeceen Woolford, a 2008 graduate of UH Mānoa and former Rainbow Wahine
volleyball player, was crowned Miss Hawai‘i and will go on to compete
for the title of Miss America in Las Vegas in January.
KGMB, KITV
The new Apple iPhone 3G S allows users to easily type diacritical marks essential
for text messaging, emailing and Web surfing in Hawaiian, according to UH
Hilo assistant professor of Hawaiian language Keola Donaghy.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Applications are being accepted now from crafts, food, non-profit and potential
job fair vendors for the 9th Annual Windward Ho‘olaule‘a to be
held Saturday, September 26, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Windward Community
College in Kane‘ohe.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Student numbers for fall are up sharply compared to last year at both the
University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, which is seeing a 6 percent increase,
and Hawai‘i Community College, which is seeing a 22 percent increase,
and the main reason appears to be the slumping economy.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Thanks to a $5,000 donation from Carole Kai Charities/Great Aloha Run and
numerous other donations and contributions from the local community, Kapi‘olani
Community College's Junior American Culinary Federation (ACF) Competition
Team is on its way to the national championship competition in Orlando.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, KITV
The University of Hawai‘i community remembers Ira Rohter, a long-time
UH Mānoa political science professor and mainstay in the Green Party
of Hawai‘i, who died on June 22 at the age of 69.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Through its Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES),
UH Hilo has expanded its role in international research and has established
a growing reputation as a center of science education for the students of
Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin 6/19
The University of Hawai‘i's John A. Burns School of Medicine has been
awarded maximum eight-year accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical
Education, a national accrediting organization.
Hawaii
Reporter, Honolulu
Advertiser
The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawai‘i,
one of seven federally funded FEMA National Domestic Preparedness sites nationwide,
has been awarded more than $4.8 million for fiscal year 2009 by the Department
of Homeland Security
Honolulu
Advertiser
The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii will start a new weekly talk-story
community forum focused on local issues of concern to the Japanese American
community and beyond that will air on Radio Station KZOO (1210 AM) and will
be hosted by UH Mānoa Professors George Tanabe and Christine Yano.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, KITV
Undergraduate applications at UH Mānoa are up 5 percent from last year,
with part of the increase appearing to come from students who opted to save
money by going to a community college and now transferring to Mānoa
to finish their education.
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH West Oahu has announced new hires Patricia Lee Masters, Jamie Hernandez,
and Lester Ishimoto to its academic affairs, administrative services, and
student services departments, respectively.
Maui
News
Satoru Abe, an Oahu painter and sculptor, recently installed his sculpture, “A
Path Through the Trees,” on the Maui Community College campus, and
includes five bronze trees that weigh 800 pounds each and range in height
up to 12 feet.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Ka
Leo
More students then ever are enrolling in the University of Hawai‘i’s
community colleges, driven by a sputtering economy that has sent jobless
workers in search of new skills and high school graduates in search of cheaper
tuition.
Honolulu
Advertiser
International students in Hawai‘i Community College’s Intensive
English Program are utilizing iPods to develop their listening and speaking
skills and are guided by instructors to use the devices to enhance their
self-study techniques.
KGMB
Dr. Farideh Farhi, a political science professor at UH Mānoa and an
expert on Iranian politics, has been closely following the election in Iran
and the latest news to come from the country and demonstrators continue to
protest the recent election.
Pacific
Business News
Four finalists have been chosen for the director position at the University
of Hawai‘i Cancer Research Center, including the interim director,
Dr. Michele Carbone.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Using the laser-guide-star adaptive-optics system of the 400-inch Keck II
Telescope on Mauna Kea for their observations, University of Hawai‘i
astronomers and colleagues observed the first galaxies formed shortly after
the universe began with the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
Mike Rota has been named chancellor of Honolulu Community College and Douglas
Dykstra has been named chancellor of Windward Community College campuses,
both for two-year terms beginning July 1.
Chronicle
of Higher Education, Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB, Maui
News
After a nearly eight-month search, the University of Hawai‘i Board
of Regents selected Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood as the next president of the 10-campus
system.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, MidWeek
Kapi‘olani Community College’s Team Hawai‘i, a six-member
team of culinary students, is headed to the national championships in Orlando
next month and hoping Hawai‘i residents will help them raise the funds
they need to get there.
Maui
News
Maui Community College officials have lined up two provisional classes for
this fall as the college prepares to launch its second four-year bachelor's
degree program, a first-time bachelor of applied science in engineering technology
from what could eventually be known as University of Hawai‘i-Maui.
Honolulu
Advertiser
UH West O‘ahu Assistant Professor of Business Administration Stefanie
Wilson recently won the University of Hawai‘i Frances Davis Teaching
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which recognizes the dedication
and demonstrated excellence of teachers of undergraduate students.
Honolulu
Advertiser
A $25,000 starting gift will endow a scholarship fund for culinary students
at Leeward Community College in the name of the late Sunao Sandy "Mom" Kodama,
mother of restaurateur D. K. Kodama.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB
The state Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has hired
the University of Hawai‘i’s School of Ocean and Earth Science
and Technology to conduct a $1.5 million survey of the ocean floor to determine
the best routes for undersea cables to deliver power from windfarms on Lanai
and Molokai to other islands.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Imi Ho‘ola program helps
disadvantaged Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders gain provisional acceptance
to the school and puts them through a one-year “boot camp” to
prepare them for medical school.
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