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Hawaii Education Dept. and Marc and Lynne Benioff Donate a Combined $3 Million to Teachers' Classroom Requests on DonorsChoose (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 14 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release:
The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) and Salesforce Chair & Co-CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne are partnering to fund $3 million in teachers' requests for classroom resources created on the education crowdfunding nonprofit DonorsChoose.
This summer $1.6 million of this funding was applied to teachers' projects, and the remaining funds will support requests later this academic yea more PR
University of Hawaii Awarded $1.8M to Predict Risk of Chemotherapy Side Effects (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 17 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
A $1.8 million National Cancer Institute grant awarded to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center will help determine how epigenetic age (age based on DNA biomarkers) can be used to predict the risk of chemotherapy side effects and if the rate of epigenetic aging can be reduced over treatment. UH researcher Alexandra Binder and collaborators hope to use their findings to improve health outcomes and more PR
University of Hawaii: Apollo Sample Reveals New Information on Moon's Evolution, Cooling (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 16 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history of the Moon. The findings, from University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers, were published in Nature Communications.
Apollo 17 astronauts collected the rock sample troctolite 76535 from the Moon's surface in 1972, an more PR
University of Hawaii: Discharge of Precious Groundwater Impacted by Sea Level, Ocean Tides (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 16 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
Groundwater is a vital resource for humans and ecosystems. Submarine groundwater discharge is a process by which water exits coastal aquifers and enters the ocean. This can be terrestrial freshwater or salty seawater that intruded into the porous aquifer at the ocean's edge. While precipitation and sea level drive coastal groundwater levels, it is sea level, especially tides, that play gatekeeper o more PR
University of Hawaii: Extreme Weather Changes Predicted by Unprecedented Model Simulations (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
There is growing public awareness that climate change will impact society not only through changes in mean temperatures and rainfall over the 21st century, but also in the occurrence of more pronounced extreme events, and more generally in natural variability in the Earth system. Such changes could also have large impacts on vulnerable ecosystems in both terrestrial and marine habitats.
A team of more PR
University of Hawaii: Puako Sewage Runoff Leads to Wastewater Treatment Plant Recommendation (10)
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 13 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
Puako, on the west side of Hawaii Island, is in great need of a wastewater treatment plant, according to a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii at Hilo studying the impact of local sewage systems on coastal water quality. The findings were published in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
Dye tracer studies were conducted to determine the hydrological connection of cesspools, septic more PR
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