Spring Enrollment Reaches All-Time High

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: General

Students in Windward's Lanihuli Observatory. Windward had the largest percentage growth in enrollment at 24.3 percent. Photo by Peter Tully Owen.

Opening enrollment for the UH System for the spring 2010 semester reached an all-time record of 55,761 students—the highest spring enrollment in the institution’s history. UH spring enrollment has increased for a third straight year, and all 10 campuses experienced increases.

UH’s preliminary opening credit enrollment figures for spring 2010 increased by 4,809 students, or 9.4 percent, compared to spring 2009, and by 7,515 students, or 15.6 percent, compared to spring 2008. Read more

Researchers Offer Advice to Curb Rat Lungworm Diseases

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: Research

Photo by Henry S. Bishop, courtesy of Alexandre J. da Silva

Researchers from Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and Pacific Biosciences Research Center examined a cluster of recent cases of disease in Hawaiʻi caused by eating fresh produce contaminated with snails or slugs infected with the nematode parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm. This food-borne threat can cause eosinophilic meningitis. The study was published by CTAHR and is available for free download. Read more

New Disaster Preparedness Center Opens

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: Academic

The newest Federal Emergency Management Agency National Disaster Preparedness Training Center was established at Mānoa. A ceremony celebrating the opening of the center will be held Feb. 9, 11 a.m. at the East-West Center’s Keoni auditorium. In conjunction with the ceremony, the center will host the quarterly meeting of the NDPC on Feb. 8–11. About 100 emergency responders, educators and community leaders from Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Islands will attend various training seminars, workshops and events to acquire high-quality disaster training, which focuses on Hawaiʻi, the Pacific Islands and other coastal communities.

The center will add to the nation’s all-hazards capabilities by focusing on programming and training for natural hazards, coastal communities and special needs and resources of island communities and territories. Read more

Mark Martindale Honored for Work in Biology

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: Award

Mark Q. Martindale, director of Mānoa’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory and professor in the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, was awarded the Alexander Kowalevsky Medal for Comparative Embryology for his contributions to the field of evolutionary developmental biology. Awarded by the Scientific Council of Saint-Petersburg Society of Naturalists, the medal is given for outstanding achievement in modern evolutionary biology of development and comparative zoology.

Martindale is one of the world’s foremost comparative embryologists and a leader in the field of “evo-devo” or evolutionary developmental biology. Like Kowalevsky, Martindale has used evolution as an integrating principle for his empirical studies of the cellular and molecular aspects of development of diverse taxa. Read more

UH People in Print

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: People

Hilo’s Julie Adrian, Aimee Deliramich, Chris Frueh and Tracy Wiegner and Mānoa’s Kenneth Grace, Sadia Rifai Habbal, Leyla Kaufman, Huw Morgan, Takeaki Sampe, Mark Wright and Shang Ping Xie recently published articles. Read more

Kudos

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: People

Hilo’s Michael Crosby, Walter Dudley, Wayne Miyamoto and Helen Wong Smith. Read more

Updating Resources in Emergency Medicine

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: People

Jerris Hedges, dean of Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine published Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, 5th Edition with James R. Roberts. Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine is the most well-known and trusted procedures manual in emergency medicine. Completely updated, this 5th edition enables emergency medical practitioners to make optimal use of today’s best options. Read more

UH Happening This Week

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Category: Events

Windward’s Hokulani Imaginarium features three shows through the month of February. Stargazing, Feb. 10, examines the constellations and the mythical stories attached to them. Cosmic Perceptions, Feb. 12, takes the audience on a journey across the seas of time and space, from Stonehenge to the Hubble Space Telescope. Sky Pirates, Feb. 26, is a beginner’s guide to the constellations. See the entire spring schedule. (808) 236-9169 Read more