President’s September 2018 highlights and updates
Highlights include UH's hurricane response, HOT program and cancer study anniversaries, campus rankings and more.
UH student chefs battle in statewide culinary competition
Kapiʻolani CC won the inaugural University of Hawaiʻi Culinary Institute of the Pacific Brewing Future Minds Statewide Competition and the $9,000 first prize.
Most ethnically diverse cancer study celebrates 25th anniversary
Hundreds of Hawaiʻi residents who participated in the largest cancer study of its kind celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Multiethnic Cohort Study.
Dean Jon Osorio’s vision for Hawaiʻinuiākea
Learn where the UH school, the only indigenous college in a Research I ranked institution, is headed under new leadership.
Trailblazing microbiome research receives $1M W.M. Keck Foundation grant
This will be the first time an entire watershed, ridge to reef, has been studied to map its microbial communities and their ecosystem processes.
Ebola virus research in Liberia part of Kapiʻolani CC professor’s mission
In summer2018, John Berestecky accompanied three UH students to help with Ebola and Lassa virus research at the University of Liberia in Monrovia.
Counselors from across the state learn why students should #MakeManoaYours
About 150 high school counselors from across the state were immersed in the educational opportunities at UH Mānoa through a workshop in September.
“Be a hero. Be a teacher.” focuses on the rewards of a career in education
A simple message that the UH and the Hawaiʻi Department of Education wants heard across the state in an effort to address Hawaiʻi’s teacher shortage.
Renowned fertility researcher celebrated at inaugural symposium
The trailblazing genetics work of Ryuzo Yanagimachi was honored at a day-long event at the John A. Burns School of Medicine on August 27.
Ocean and climate research gets $9M boost
The Hawaiʻi Ocean Time-series program receives new funding from the National Science Foundation for another five years.
