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Music and dental hygiene instructors at UH Maui College awarded for excellence

UH Maui College’s faculty members Joseph Keola Donaghy (left) and Kevin Omuro received top teaching awards. Photos Courtesy: UH Twenty-three faculty members at the University of Hawaiʻi have received top awards for their inspirational teaching and world-class research, including two teachers from UH Maui College. “Our world-class faculty are the heart of UH,” said UH President David Lassner.…

‘Unacceptable and Irresponsible’: Councilmember Tamara Paltin writes to UH president David Lassner regarding TMT

“[Y]our rather curt response is unacceptable and irresponsible considering what appears to be the irrefutable historical information now publicly available on a global level,” Paltin wrote in a July 26 letter to the UH president. The letter was the latest in a back-and-forth between the two that began when Gov. Ige announced construction of the TMT on Maunakea was about to begin in July.

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State Arrests Activists on Mauna Kea: Gov. Ige hopes for “the co-existence of culture and science” but others see the dispute as symbolic of the struggle against colonization

Kupuna (elders), shown here forming a checkpoint, were the first to be arrested on Mauna Kea Wednesday morning

The live updates from Mauna Kea have been trickling in all day and I brace myself for the images I might see every time I hit refresh. This latest dispatch, though, as I write on Tuesday afternoon, is peaceful. Hawai‘i Public Radio reporter Ryan Finnerty has tweeted that a checkpoint…

Funding awarded to University of Hawai‘i, including $3.5 million for Maui high school and middle school students

Students from low-income families in Hawai‘i will benefit from $39 million in federal grants awarded to The University of Hawai‘i. The grants are designed to help increase the number of low-income middle and high school students statewide who succeed in college through GEAR UP, the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs from the U.S. Department of Education.

GEAR UP in…

University of Hawai‘i Maui College faculty honored for outstanding teaching

  Two University of Hawai‘i Maui College educators were are among 23 UH faculty members from across the state who were recently honored for the outstanding quality of their teaching.

Psychology instructor Paul Thornton was among 15 educators to receive the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes faculty who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship,…

Read Senator Gil Keith-Agaran’s 2017 UH Maui College Commencement Address

  University of Hawaii Maui College officials awarded 780 Certificates, Associate degrees, Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees and Doctorate degrees during the college’s May 11 commencement ceremony. State Senator Gil Keith-Agaran, D–Wailuku, Waihe`e, Kahului, delivered the commencement address.

Curious as to what Keith-Agaran said, I requested a copy of his speech from the college. Not…

University of Hawaii awarded $90,000 grant to digitize out-of-print texts

The University of Hawaii has been awarded a $90,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help digitize 100 out-of-print UH Press scholarly texts (like the one pictured above). The grant is part of the Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative by the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH) to make more scholarly works available to readers around the…