MANOA, Hawaii, May 20 (TNSper) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: Craig Angelos is the new University of Hawaii at Manoa athletics director, effective June 5, 2023, stepping into one of the highest profile jobs at UH and the state of Hawaii. The UH Board of Regents (BOR) approved Angelos by a vote of 8-2 and one abstaining today, May 18 at the BOR monthly meeting at Honolulu Community College. He will be responsible for the state's only  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 18 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release on May 17, 2023: The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) today received an updated defueling plan for the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (Supplement 2). The plan, submitted by Joint Task Force-Red Hill (JTF-RH), moves up defueling to begin in October 2023. "We are encouraged by the updated Red Hill defueling timeline," said Deputy Director of Environmental Health Kathleen Ho. "Moving up the t more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 18 -- Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on May 17, 2023: Under budget and ahead of schedule, 11 new public preschool classrooms are slated to open across the state this August. Lt. Governor Sylvia Luke, who's leading the Ready Keiki initiative, held the contract signing for the first wave of classrooms at Lincoln Elementary School today joined by the area legislators, Hawaii Board and Department of Education, Executive Office on Early Learni more PR

SANTA CRUZ, California, May 16 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf show a double-lobed structure like the radiation belts of Jupiter * * * By Tim Stephens Astronomers have described the first radiation belt observed outside our solar system, using a coordinated array of 39 radio dishes from Hawaii to Germany to obtain high-resolution images. The images of persistent, in more PR

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 16 (TNStalk) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following Q&A on May 15, 2023, with Nicole Nikki DeVille, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health: * * * Originally from O'ahu, Hawaii, Nicole (Nikki) Deville joined the School of Public Health's epidemiology and biostatistics department as an assistant professor and now calls "The Ninth Island" home. But her plans didn't always involve pub more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 16 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii plans to establish a first-of-its-kind Climate-Resilient Food Innovation Network (CliRFIN) that will serve as a hub for Hawaii and U.S-affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) to develop collaborative, food innovation solutions driven by Indigenous knowledge systems and modern technology that address climate change impacts. The $1 million, 24-month award is part of the first-ever more PR