ARCATA, California, Aug. 28 (TNSAcc) -- Humboldt State University issued the following news: Humboldt State has once again received distinction from the WASC Senior College & University Commission (WSCUC) commending the University's comprehensive and strategic service to students. An agency that accredits institutions of higher education across California, Hawaii, and the Pacific, WSCUC first issued accreditation to HSU in 1949. The letter is an official record of action from the commission an more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 27 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Climate change is happening and accelerating. Earth will continue to warm. And these changes are unequivocally caused by human activities. Those are among the conclusions of the report published by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with University of Hawaii at Manoa Assistant Professor of oceanography Malte Stuecker as a contributing author. "The latest IPCC report shows clearly th more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 24 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A University of Hawaii at Hilo Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani College of Hawaiian Language faculty member's publication in Oceanic Linguistics provides evidence for a major revision of understandings of the origins of Hawaiian and other East Polynesian languages. Professor William H. Wilson had previously shown that East Polynesia was settled by people from small Polynesian Outliers. His latest artic more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 26 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: University of Hawaii at Manoa scientists are currently exploring Mars via a car-sized robot known as the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Perseverance is the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, and the Mars 2020 team are helping acquire samples of rocks from its landing site, the floor of Jezero Crater, for return to Earth by a future mission. WHO: Sarah Fagents, a research more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 27 (TNSPar) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: * * * National AI partnership, research to benefit Hawaii communities University of Hawaii A new national partnership will put the University of Hawaii at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) research. UH will contribute research and expertise to a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported effort to establish an AI institute, which will enable innovative research and education in f more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The Sun has a new nearest asteroid neighbor. A team including University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomer David Tholen has discovered an asteroid with the shortest known orbital period around the Sun - only 113 days. Of all the known objects in our solar system, only the planet Mercury has a shorter orbital period. Team leader Scott S. Sheppard, an IfA graduate now at the Carnegi more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Larval fish are spawned in a given location and may be recruited into their next life stage--larger, older fish--in the same place or a distant location. The recruitment of rabbitfish in Guam and groupers in Palau has historically been unpredictable. A published study, co-authored by a University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) research professor, found t more PR