June
2008
Pacific
Business News
Jay Maddock, who oversees the Office of Public Health Studies at UH Manoa, and
who at 35 is one of the University of Hawai‘i’s youngest department
heads, was named the recipient of Pacific Business News’ Bank of Hawaii
Community Leader of the Year award.
The
Garden Island
Kaua‘i Community College Chancellor Peggy Cha spoke recently about
her career with the University of Hawai‘i and her time at the Kaua‘i
campus as she prepares for retirement in November.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Weekly
The Smithsonian Institution’s “Key Ingredients: America by Food” exhibit
is now on display at Kapi‘olani Community College’s Lama Library,
the first stop on a three-island tour for the exhibit that traces the country’s
culinary history.
Hawaii
Tribune-Herald
Don Thomas, director of UH Hilo’s Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes,
comments on the growing discussion amongst Big Island residents on how to
stop the vog.
Metro
Honolulu People
The Auto Academy, a joint project of Honolulu Community College, First Hawaiian
Bank and The Cutter Team, is a six-week summer internship program for Oahu
high school students that offers a hands-on experience in what it takes to
be a high-tech auto mechanic.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
In a recent study published in the Medscape Journal of Medicine, Dr. Jorge
Camara, director of ophthalmology in the Department of Surgery at the John
A. Burns School of Medicine, and his co-authors report on the profound beneficial
effects of live music on patients before surgery.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Edward Scott, a professor in UH Manoa’s School of Ocean and
Earth Science and Technology, has been awarded the 2008 Leonard Medal by
the Meteoritical Society for his contributions to the study of meteorites.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Maui Community College will offer “Weekend College” to working
adults and other individuals who would not otherwise have the opportunity
to earn a college degree through Friday evening and Saturday morning classes
beginning this fall.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KHNL
Research conducted at UH Manoa by scientist Samir Khanal and his team could
hold the key to turning a profit in producing ethanol fuel from sugar cane
in Hawai‘i using a method that will convert ethanol waste into animal
feed that could be sold to ranches and local fish farms.
Honolulu
Advertiser, KFVE
UH Manoa and China’s Wuhan University will share training opportunities
and experts over the next five years through an academic exchange agreement
signed recently in the area of public health studies.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
O‘ahu elementary and middle school students are participating in a
new summer program at UH Manoa designed to interest them in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, through the “Kids on Campus” program,
part of the state’s efforts to expand STEM education in Hawai‘i.
Pacific
Business News
University of Hawai‘i scientists and their spin-off companies are working
to turn algae into the next “green” alternative to fossil fuels.
Honolulu
Advertiser. Pacific
Business News
UH Manoa’s School of Social Work is ranked 60th best among the nation’s
191 graduate social work programs by the U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s
Best Graduate Schools 2009,” and is also joined in the annual rankings
by the William S. Richardson School of Law, the College of Education, and
the Library and Information Science program.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The University of Hawai‘i community remembers faculty who have recently
passed—E. Alison Kay, environmentalist and emeritus professor of zoology
at UH Manoa, and Allen Roy Trubitt, composer and emeritus music professor
at UH Manoa.
Honolulu
Advertiser
Frear Hall, the first new dormitory in more than 30 years, will open this
fall at UH Manoa, providing more than 800 new beds and allowing the university
to perform much needed repairs to existing dorms.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
Maenette Kape‘ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham, Ed.D., has been appointed
the first dean of UH Manoa’s new Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian
Knowledge, the largest school of indigenous studies in the nation.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
Starting in 2009, UH Manoa’s Shidler College of Business will begin
offering a new one-year master’s of science degree program in financial
engineering, a field that blends the requirements of hard sciences with the
world of finance.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, KGMB
The University of Hawai‘i community is mourning the passing of former
UH President Harlan Cleveland, who served from 1969 to 1974 during a time
that saw the establishment of the William S. Richardson School of Law, the
expansion of the John A. Burns School of Medicine from two to four years,
and the pulling together of higher education activities on the Big Island
under a chancellor at UH Hilo.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
The KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, presented by UH Manoa’s Outreach College,
is now underway featuring screenings of family films at UH Manoa and the
Sheraton Waikiki, in partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Hawai‘i,
through July 20.
Honolulu
Advertiser
The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources’ Termite Project
at UH Manoa offers three upcoming seminars offering tips and information
for homeowners on how to control and prevent termite damage.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
UH Manoa’s Shidler College of Business has received $250,000 from UH
business alumni living in Japan and Hong Kong to go towards scholarships
for international students from Asia and students studying in the Japan-focused
MBA program.
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, Science
Daily
For the first time, University of Hawai‘i astronomers have measured
the mass of brown dwarfs, objects that are smaller than stars but bigger
than gas planets like Jupiter, and did so using images from the Keck II Observatory
on Mauna Kea.
Honolulu
Advertiser, Pacific
Business News
The University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges have partnered with the
Workforce Investment Board to create a training fund for displaced workers
from Molokai Ranch, ATA Airlines, Aloha Airlines, Weyerhaeuser and NCL America.
Science
News, The
New York Times, Honolulu
Advertiser, KHNL
UH Mānoa graduate student Lindsay Young and colleagues have discovered
that the Laysan albatross employs a strategy called reciprocity, where unrelated
females pair together and take turns raising offspring, which was recently
published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
Honolulu
Advertiser 6/2
Inmates from Maui Community Correctional Center got a taste of a career in
the culinary industry through a one-week culinary training program offered
through a partnership between Maui Community College and Maui Economic Opportunity.
Honolulu
Advertiser 6/2
Six students from UH Manoa’s Academy for Creative Media were selected
to show their films at the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival,
and will shoot short films with Shanghai University students, establishing
the first U.S.-China student film co-production.
Pacific
Business News
Students in the UH Mānoa School of Travel Industry Management and at
UH community colleges statewide are benefiting from a summer intern program
sponsored by Marriott International in Hawai‘i that is also helping
to address the workforce challenges facing Hawai‘i’s tourism
industry.
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