HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 30 (TNSfund) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A three-year $1-million grant will launch a new Indo-Pacific Affairs Initiative and establish a Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs within the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The federal funding was secured by U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono to provide education, training and professional development opportunities for students and U.S. government personnel to bett more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 28 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release: The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) issued a Notice of Violation and Order (NOVO) to the United States Navy to address a myriad of deficiencies at the NAVFAC Hawaii Wastewater Treatment Plant near Pearl Harbor. Numerous operation and maintenance issues led to repeated discharges of untreated or partially treated sewage to state waters. DOH assessed an $8,776,250.00 penalty based on 766 counts of  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 29 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2022: The Department of Health (DOH) is enhancing the Hawaii COVID-19 data dashboard to include reinfections. The percentage of COVID-19 cases involving individuals who had a prior infection is growing over time and now accounts for about 10% of new confirmed cases. "The data on reinfections underscores what we have been saying; that limited immunity from previous infection only lasts s more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 29 (TNSawa) -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2022: The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) named its 2020 and 2021 Employee and Team of the Year award winners, recognizing employees for their outstanding and continued contributions to education and the students of Hawaii. "The past two years have been uniquely challenging and our students and school communities greatly benefited from the unwavering dedication  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Obese adolescents have their most rapid weight gain before the age of five and are usually already obese by that age. Due to limited pediatric obesity research and lack of appropriate body composition technologies, University of Hawaii Cancer Center researcher John Shepherd was awarded $3.1 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to discover body composition techn more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 26 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy have assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4. Using eight different methods, they measured the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. The study has been publish more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 1 (TNSper) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Denise Eby Konan, dean of the College of Social Sciences (CSS) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has been appointed by the federal government to the Palau Economic Advisory Group. She is the first woman to serve on the advisory group. "I'm excited to contribute to the long-term economic sustainability of Palau, which is meaningful because I live in an island economy, and am familiar with this d more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 29 (TNSacc) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Engineering programs at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have had their accreditation renewed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), confirming that they meet standards essential to prepare graduates to enter STEM fields in the global workforce. The following programs are accredited: * Biological engineering, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 29 (TNSfund) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Helping underserved students in gifted education and STEM fields, and increasing family engagement is the focus of newly awarded $8 million in grants to the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education Center on Disability Studies (CDS) by the U.S. Department of Education. Over the next five years, two faculty members will work with the students and their families to find ways to address th more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A new species of nuisance algae, which was formally described in 2020 by University of Hawaii at Manoa experts, continues to smother more reefs and coral at Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. However, an early detection technique developed by UH Manoa researchers can identify small particles of the alga in the water, giving experts much more time to act before it blankets the reef. Scient more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 30 (TNSpro) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A new program is training University of Hawaii students to enter the critical, growing information technology (IT) sector by providing practical experience with the help of local companies. Computer and technology occupations are promising career fields, with related employment projected to increase 13% nationally between 2020-30. In Hawaii, employment in the computer and mathematics occupation gr more PR