HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 2 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A startup company helping people learn different languages is the winner of the 2022 University of Hawaii Venture Competition (UHVC). GOALL (Great Online Activities for Language Learning), led by University of Hawaii at Manoa PhD students, won a prize package of more than $34,000. GOALL provides a web and mobile app to help adult language learners achieve their goals through customizable and researc more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 6 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A University of Hawaii at Manoa hana keaka (play) written and directed by a graduate student in the Department of Theatre and Dance captured eight national awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The national theatre program, which incorporates 18,000 students annually from colleges and universities across the country, awarded productions in higher education that pr more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 4 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: Drinking water at 72 elementary schools across Hawaii will be tested for lead in the second phase of a joint project between the Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH). Testing will begin in late May of 2022 as part of a nationwide program established under the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act of 2017 to test drinking w more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 6 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: The State of Hawaii's Office of Planning and Sustainable Development (OPSD) announced the state's Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan: Charting a Course of the Decade of Action (2020-2030) -- received a national Merit Award from the American Planning Association. The association's Sustainable Communities Division recognized the plan's excellence in sustainability. The American Planning Association presented the more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Students at the University of Hawaii 10-campus system feel safer overall from sexual harassment and gender-based violence, according to the latest and third biennial student campus climate survey on the prevalence of sexual harassment, domestic and dating violence, stalking, and non-consensual sexual contact. * 2021 UH Student Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence Repo more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 7 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: The latest edition of Journal of Thoracic Oncology features a consensus article by lead author, UH Cancer Center researcher Michele Carbone, MD, PhD, about the latest research on preventive and therapeutic approaches for mesothelioma caused by inherited genetic mutations. Dr. Carbone, along with co-authors, Raffit Hassan, MD, Chief of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Institute, David Schrump more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 4 (TNStalk) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii at Hilo celebrates its 2022 Spring Commencement Saturday, May 14, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Edith Kanaka'ole Stadium. The ceremony may also be viewed via live stream at: https://youtu.be/Q9NS61_jMRQ. Approximately 557 students have petitioned for degrees and/or certificates and for various post-graduate credentials from the College of Arts and Sciences, Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 6 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spaces--hurrying to escape from confinement, according to a published study by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Nearly all organisms host bacteria that live symbiotically on or within their bodies. The Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, forms an exclusive symbiotic relationship with the marine bacterium Vibrio f more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 3 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Japan has proposed discharging treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, and an independent panel of global experts on nuclear issues was developed to support Pacific nations in their consultations. Robert Richmond, a research professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and director of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, was one of five e more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 7 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on May 6, 2022: The world's ocean is steadily losing its year-to-year memory due to global warming, according to a study published in Science Advances co-authored by a University of Hawaii at Manoa atmospheric scientist. The research team discovered this by assessing future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models. Compared with the fast weather fluctuations of the atmosphere, th more PR