HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 11 (TNSMon) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Hawaii construction company Nan, Inc. has donated $160,000 to fund the Nan, Inc. Scholarship in Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering. The donation will financially support Hawaii's future civil and environmental engineers. "We are so grateful for Nan, Inc.'s generosity to help support our civil and environmental engineering students in such a significant way," C more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 11 (TNSMon) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The School of Travel Industry Management (TIM School) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Shidler College of Business received an estate gift, estimated at $850,000, to establish the Eva Kaa Scholarship of Excellence. The endowed scholarship from Eva Kaa, a UH Manoa alumna, is for full-time undergraduate students pursuing a degree at the TIM School. "I credit my education at the TIM School for p more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 11 (TNSCXX) -- Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law issued the following news: In its inaugural year, a partnership of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) gave two summer interns the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in Hawaii's conservation efforts. Funded by The Dorrance Family Foundation, the partnership began when Jody Kaulukukui, ASU senior advancement officer and for more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 10 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a group of 18 state Attorneys General to defend California's ban on large-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the coalition supports California's petition for en banc review in Duncan v. Becerra, a case in which a divide more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 11 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Sept. 10: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing a motion for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asking for the Trump Administration's discriminatory rule undermining Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be vacated and set aside. This provision in the ACA precludes discr more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 10 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Sept. 9: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general, led by California, in an amicus brief in support of a legal effort to immediately block the Trump Administration's new regulation arbitrarily and dramatically increasing fees for immigration-related applications. As part of the rule, the Trump Administration -- for the first time in U.S. hi more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 10 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on Sept. 9: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a multistate coalition of 23 attorneys general in supporting legal action against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for attempting to increase the risk that women nationwide will contract the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as they seek abortions in their stat more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 9 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige announced the launch of a new program that will provide federal assistance for Hawaii renters at risk of eviction for non-payment of rent because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The State of Hawaii Rent Relief and Housing Assistance Program (RRHAP) will assist Hawaii residents who are unable to pay their rent because they're unemployed or have had a reduction in income due to the p more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 9 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Sept. 8: Gov. David Ige announced today that he has appointed Edmund ("Fred") Hyun to serve as the Governor's Special Master to assist in overseeing the State Department of Public Safety. Hyun is the current chair of the Paroling Authority. Effective immediately and through the month of September, he will serve as special master of the department. He will continue in his position as chair of the Parolin more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 12 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Sept. 11: Gov. David Ige today announced the appointment of Circuit Judge Karen Tooko Nakasone to the Intermediate Court of Appeals. Judge Nakasone has served on the First Circuit Court since 2011. Previously, she was a deputy public defender with the Office of the Public Defender, and a law clerk with the Intermediate Court of Appeals for the Honorable Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. Judge Nakasone attended the  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 9 -- Hawaiian Electric issued the following news release: Hawaiian Electric has filed applications with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seeking approval for two proposed self-build Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects, one each on Hawaii Island at Keahole Power Plant and Maui at Waena. Public comments on the projects are being accepted at: * keaholebess@hawaiianelectric.com (for Hawaii Island project), until September 26, 2020 * mauibess@hawaiiane more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 11 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Six novel susceptibility genes for pancreatic cancer risk have been identified by University of Hawaii Cancer Center researcher Lang Wu. The study was published in Cancer Research by the American Association for Cancer Research. "Our discovery of novel candidate susceptibility genes associated with pancreatic cancer will allow us to better understand the biology and genetics of this deadly malign more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 10 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: A study led by University of Hawaii Cancer Center researcher Lang Wu, Ph.D., has identified six novel candidate susceptibility genes for pancreatic cancer risk . This transcriptome-wide association study, which assesses genetically predicted expression and pancreatic cancer risk by integrating genome-wide association studies with gene-expression datasets, was published in the American Associ more PR