July
2009
The
Garden Island
Funded by Carl D. Perkins through the Office of the University of Hawai‘i
Director for Career and Technical Education, the Culinary Summer Institute at
Kaua‘i Community College gave 10 high school students and recent graduates
an inside look at the college’s culinary program.
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University of Hawai‘i President David McClain informed lawmakers that he
will seek pay cuts for faculty and administrators, an early retirement program
and possibly furloughs as part of a developing plan to address about $155 million
in budget cuts over the next two years.
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Longtime Hawai‘i federal prosecutor Florence Nakakuni, a 1975 graduate
of UH Mānoa who received her law degree from the William S. Richardson
School of Law at UH in 1978, has been nominated by President Obama to serve
as the first-ever female U.S. attorney in Hawai‘i.
Haleakala
Times
Maui Community College and its Office of Continuing Education and Training through
VITEC and the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui, will collaborate with Maui
Economic Opportunity in an ongoing effort to train an eco-friendly workforce
in Maui County.
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This fall, Kapi‘olani Community College will begin offering the state's
first wedding planner certificate program through a partnership with the Wedding
Planning Institute, offering onsite training from a local professional with the
first session running Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 24-November 14.
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Maui News
The Cancer Patient Navigator Training course at Maui Community College, a
three-credit elective being offered for the second time this fall, teaches
students to be “traffic directors” for cancer patients and help
patients navigate through the healthcare system.
MidWeek
Dana Takahara-Dias, the new head coach of the University of Hawai‘i
Wahine basketball team and the first woman head coach of the program in 30
years, has been busy reorganizing the once-proud program and finishing up
the final stages of her position with the City and County of Honolulu.
MidWeek
Geno Sarmiento earned a degree in food service at Leeward Community College
and has gone on to success as a senior executive chef for Tri-Star Restaurants,
overseeing three of the company’s restaurants at exclusive Maui hotel
properties.
Honolulu
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The University of Hawai‘i’s Hawaii AIDS Clinical Trials Unit
has been renamed the Hawai‘i Center for AIDS to provide a vehicle for
scientific study and policy development related to the disease and help researchers
establish collaborations with international entities and obtain research
grants to deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
KGMB
In celebration of Hawai‘i Aquaculture Week, UH Mānoa’s College
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources showed off a $4 million renovation
project of its Magoon Research Station that greatly improved the safety of
the facility, which focuses on coming up with new ways to grow flowers.
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Through August 28, Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
is hosting the exhibit "Karate: From Okinawa to Hawai‘i," featuring
historical karate images blown up to poster sizes, Okinawan weapons and karate
articles from pre-war Hawai‘i.
Honolulu
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Three University of Hawai‘i scientists—Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Paul
Lucey and B. Ray Hawke of the university’s Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics
and Planetology—are participating in NASA's new missions to the moon to
learn more about the environment for eventual human settlements.
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Honolulu Community College's Music and Entertainment Learning Experience (MELE)
Program hosts its first songwriters workshop, connecting award-winning songwriters
with local music professionals and future generations of Hawai‘i-based
artists.
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