HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 15 (TNSMon) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: The University of Hawaii Cancer Center is having an exceptional couple of months when it comes to attracting millions of dollars in federal funding for cancer research. Since August 1 alone, five researchers at the UH Cancer Center have received a total of more than $16 million in federal funding to conduct public impact research over the next few years. "The fact that we are seeing this amo more PR

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Oct. 15 -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), the largest publicly-traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced that Rich Svindland, currently president of California and Hawaii American Water, has been named president of Missouri American Water. Svindland replaces Deborah Dewey, who is retiring from the company. Additionally, Kevin Tilden, currently serving as vic more PR

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, Oct. 13 (TNSRes) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: With looming threats of coffee leaf rust to farmers' yields, Purdue University mycologist Catherine Aime is working to protect this staple of daily lives and the economies of areas throughout the world. Aime and colleagues warned of the potential threat to the coffee industry in June. She now is part of a team supported by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and led by the Synerg more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 15 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The next total solar eclipse is coming on December 4, but there's no easy way to view it because totality will be over Antarctica! For University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) Astronomer Shadia Rifai Habbal and her eclipse team, the Solar Wind Sherpas, this is just another exciting challenge. They've chased eclipses around the globe, but this winter, their only observation option is by se more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 13 (TNSGra) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii at Hilo Kipuka Native Hawaiian Student Center was recently awarded three new five-year grants totaling over $8 million through the Title III, Part F Alaska Native Native Hawaiian (ANNH) Serving Institutions program to help support the success of Native Hawaiian students. The programs and their grant award include: Pa'ie'e: Indigenizing the University of Hawaii at Hilo and more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 14 (TNSGra) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A University of Hawaii at Hilo professor specializing in humpback whale behavioral ecology and communication recently received a $5,000 grant from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation to study stress in humpback whale mothers in the Hawaiian breeding grounds. Dr. Adam Pack, professor of biology and psychology and founder of the UH Hilo Marine Mammal Laboratory (https://hilo.hawaii.edu/faculty/ more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 16 (TNSGra) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Changes in ocean physics, chemistry and biology are occurring in response to human activities. In an effort to use satellites and ocean floats to gain new insights into the global ocean and climate change, University of Hawaii at Manoa oceanographer Seth Bushinsky received an infusion of support through four grants totaling more than $2.7 million. The grants come from the National Oceanic and Atmos more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 15 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The future of an already critically endangered species of tree that is endemic to Hawaii is being threatened by myrtle rust, a pathogen only recently detected in the islands. However, University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers from the School of Life Sciences, have discovered a "plant smoothie" that has been demonstrated to make the tree more resistant to the pathogen. The research was published on  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 14 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California's well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research, led by planetary scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), suggests this tectonic motion may be active on Titan, deforming the icy surface. On multiple o more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 12 (TNSGra) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have commenced the "Hawaii Mesonet" project, which involves deploying 84 climate stations to collect critical real-time data, including rainfall, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, solar and net radiation, and soil moisture, heat flux and temperature. The mesonet, or mesoscale network, refers to a densely located set of observational stati more PR