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Richard Canevez, recipient of the prestigious Computing Innovation Fellowship ( CIFellows), has joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Social Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher. At UH Mānoa, Canevez will lead a study to examine the connection between communication technologies and the de-escalation of violence in social movements. “Recent social movement events illustrated the essential differences between violent and nonviolent movements. Movements that maintain a nonvio...

SONDH) has been selected to join the Consortium of Universities for Global Health ( CUGH) Board of Directors. Professor Kristine Qureshi, associate dean for research and global health, was selected from a group of more than 80 applications. Her three-year term will begin in April 2021. Qureshi will help support CUGH to strengthen its academic global health community of 179 member institutions from around the world engaged in addressing health challenges to improve the well-being of people an...

By JLNJ Staff | February 24, 2021 (Courtesy of Yeshivat Noam) Yeshivat Noam invites the community to attend its Virtual Celebration on Wednesday evening, March 17 to celebrate the 20th anniversary. The event is a celebration of the school’s accomplishments, an opportunity to recognize deserving honorees, and a fundraiser for essential funds. The increased demand for scholarship funds as well as $350,000 in unexpected COVID-related expenses has made the success of this campaign ...

The foremost retinal honor society in the world recognized Gregg Kokame, chief of ophthalmology and a clinical professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine ( JABSOM), for his excellence in research of macular diseases. Kokame was awarded the J. Donald M. Gass Medal by the Macula Society, named after one of the worldʻs leading specialists on diseases of the retina who described many different macular diseases. “To me, the J. Donald M. Gass Medal is the mo...

SONDH) will lead Hawaiʻi in a nationwide initiative to improve oral health. Deborah Mattheus has been selected as one of the first six Oral Health State Champions as part of the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health ( MMC). The campaign is working with six pilot states to develop blueprints to rollout in other states, and aims to positively impact the oral health of 100 million mouths over the next 10 years. Hawaiʻi will serve as a model for future 100 MMC states. CIPCOH ch...

February 1, 2021 The University of Wyoming’s Academic Affairs office and the Faculty Senate’s Faculty Recognition and Development Committee are now accepting nominations for the year-end faculty awards. The deadline is Friday, Feb. 19. Nominations are for the yearly John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award; George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Faculty Award; Hollon Family Award for Teaching Excellence in Off-Campus Programs; and the John P. Ellbogen Lifetime Teaching Award. Each ...

Cheryl Treiber-Kawaoka Always an advocate for integrating the arts into the curriculum, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education Institute for Teacher Education ( ITE) instructor HAEA) Art Educator of the Year. Treiber-Kawaoka recently retired after more than 20 years with UH. She will be recognized at the National Art Education Association annual conference in March. “Cheryl’s commitment to advancing art education in Hawaiʻi, despite the decrease of art in our public school...

Butler Center announces spring events The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence announces a spring program filled with initiatives for professional growth and advancement, opportunities for building networks and celebration of women’s leadership. The semester will feature the Third Annual Conference for Associate Professors and continue the faculty support initiatives, the Support Circle and the Coaching and Resource Network. The center also will co-organize a set of special ...