HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 3 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige announced that the state will be lifting the 14-day quarantine requirement for inter-island travelers, effective June 16. The state Department of Transportation will require thermal screening at the airport for everyone traveling inter-island. HDOT will also require travelers to fill out a new form that will now also ask for health-related information to assist the state in tracking and resp more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 3 -- Hawaiian Electric issued the following news release: Hawaiian Electric has posted details of 16 solar-plus-storage or standalone-storage projects selected in the latest phase of the clean energy transition for Oahu, Maui and Hawaii Island. The name, location, developer, technology, size and estimated completion dates are listed on the Hawaiian Electric renewable project status board at www.hawaiianelectric.com/statusboard as well as links to each project's individua more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 2 -- Hawaiian Electric issued the following news release on June 1: Hawaiian Electric will resume critical resilience projects such as replacing utility poles - work normally done before hurricane season but delayed due to COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders. Customers will be notified if the scheduled work requires outages. Hurricane season officially starts today, and Hawaiian Electric is ramping up infrastructure upgrades to ensure public safety and system reliability ac more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 4 -- Hawaiian Electric issued the following news release: Hawaiian Electric will host the first of three Drive Electric Dialogues focused on Electric Bus Make Ready Infrastructure on Wednesday, June 10, 10-11:30 am. "We believe in a 'new normal' where electric buses powered by clean energy help transport our critical workers and community members while reducing congestion and creating quieter, less polluted but more interconnected neighborhoods on all our islands," said  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 2 -- Hawaiian Electric issued the following news release: Hawaiian Electric crews will be replacing a utility pole and working on overhead lines along Farrington Highway Wednesday in Maili. The work will require closure of the far-right lane in both directions between Kaukama Road and Hookele Street from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition, there will be about two 5-minute closures of all lanes in both directions in the area while work is being done on overhead lines cross more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 3 -- Kaiser Permanente issued the following news release: More than 500 families received fresh produce and other food at Kaiser Permanente's Waipio Medical Office on May 31, 2020. The food distribution is part of the United States Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program facilitated by Ham Produce and Seafood and coordinated by Kaiser Permanente Hawaii to benefit UNITE HERE Local 5 workers struggling financially due to the closure of Hawaii's visi more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 5 -- The University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy issued the following news release: While the world has been dealing with the corona-virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary space. This stream of charged particles radiating from the surface of the sun is called the solar wind and expands to fill the ent more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 6 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $10 million to the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University (IU) in collaboration with University of Hawai'i, University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Arizona State University (ASU) and Cornell University to deploy Jetstream 2, a nationwide distributed cloud computing system that supports on-demand research, artifici more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 4 -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a shared instrumentation grant (S10), to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The $382,000 grant will be used to purchase a live cell imaging microscope with multicolor total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy and photo-manipulation capabilities. The instrument will be housed in the Microscopy, Imaging, and Flow Cytometry Core Facility at th more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 6 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii Cancer Center received a $382,000 shared instrumentation grant (S10) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to purchase a live-cell imaging microscope with multicolor total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy and photo-manipulation capabilities. The microscope will assist researchers who rely on live-cell imaging to study cell movement and migration, which play a critic more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 6 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the sun that expands into interplanetary space. The properties of the solar corona are a consequence of the Sun's complex magnetic field, which is produced in the solar interior and extends outward into space. IfA graduate student Benjamin Boe conducted a new s more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 6 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Though corals worldwide are threatened due to climate change and local stressors, the front lines of the battle are microscopic in scale. Under stress, many reefs that were formerly dominated by coral are shifting to systems dominated by turf and fleshy algae. A new study published in PNAS, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and San Diego State University, found that the outcome of th more PR