NASPA).
NASPA, which has 15,000 members, because it, “exemplifies how to support a growing student population that often requires a unique type of assistance.” Nationally, more than 20% of all students are parents themselves, and 70% of those students are mothers who find they are often invisible and overlooked on campuses.
SP@M helps build a community of supporting students who are “pursuing education while parenting.”
Teresa Bill, the
SP@M. The two programs work closely together to assist adult student learners with financial need and educational support.
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SP@M has grown from a website with resources to a small but effective program offering support services that provide access to resources and opportunities that build student parents’ capacity to persist and succeed at
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The first hatchery-raised sea urchins outplanted in Kāneʻohe Bay are 10-years-old, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (
DAR) are celebrating the milestone anniversary. The sea urchin hatchery, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (
NOAA) and
DAR, successfully transplanted the first cohort in January 2011 and has since released 600,000 sea urchins across the state.
Project staff raise the sea urchins until they’re large enough to be released into the wild. (Photo credit:
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DAR)
These sea urchins have proven to be incredibly successful at controlling invasive seaweed, a major priority for coral conservation in Hawaiʻi. To date, the sea urchin biocontrol project has treated more than 227 acres of reef in Kāneʻohe Bay, and has recently expanded to the Waikīkī Marine Life Conservation District to control invasive algae.
KCACTF) Region 8 winner for lighting design, and
Christine Chang, regional runner up for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award and recipient of the Summer Arts Scholarship Award ($1,500).
Christine Chang
“Instead of creating displays for a physical exhibition, entrants had to put together a slideshow/gallery of their work and record a 5-minute presentation for the new online format,” said Sorensen, a senior theatre major. “As soon as I saw my name pop up, it felt like coming down from the top of a roller coaster in the best way possible.”
“There was so much excitement during the festival and I was grateful just to continue to move forward in the rounds,” said Chang, an
A team of faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture and Department of Urban and Regional Planning earned a national award for its “Just Play” project, a set of coordinated courses in architecture, landscape architecture and urban and regional planning. Just Play received the 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change and Society. Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (
ACSA) presents the award.
ACSA 109th annual meeting, which will be held virtually March 24–26, 2021.
“It is a national award that recognizes innovative course development and offers financial support to faculty,” said
Dubai: A group of students in the UAE who were at risk of missing university due to financial reasons are currently pursuing their degrees online thanks to a UAE foundation that stood by them in spite of the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mohamed Estwani, a Syrian expat in Abu Dhabi, is one of the nearly 1,000 underserved Arab and Emirati youths who have been provided with full scholarships at partnering universities in the UAE and beyond by the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE) since 2015.
Mohamed Estwani Estwani, 26, is pursuing an online master’s degree in health-care innovation from United States-based Arizona State University (ASU). The second-year scholar, who works in the medical supplies sector, said the pandemic pushed him to become more “resilient”. He added: “We were able to overcome the challenges of supplying vital medical supplies and equipment ventilator, beds, monitors, lights, etc and prepare a field hospital despite th