TIM Alumni Hall of Honor award.
This year’s event was presented virtually adhering to COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. The program featured special video presentations of the honorees, a performance by the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra and remarks from
UH President
David Lassner and Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi. Local entertainer Rodney Villanueva served as the emcee and the media sponsor was the
Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The event was co-chaired by Vicky Cayetano and Larry Rodriguez.
“We are grateful to Hawaiʻi’s travel and hospitality industry and business community for their support of our students,” Shidler College of Business Dean
Haunani-Kay Trask (Photo credit: Kapulani Landgraf)
One of the highest honors bestowed in academia has been awarded to a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Emerita.
Haunani-Kay Trask has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Founded in 1780, the academy recognizes extraordinary people who help solve the world’s most urgent challenges, and contribute to the common good from every field, discipline and profession. The exemplary Native Hawaiian scholar will join other notable lifetime members including John Adams, Charles Darwin, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.
An assistant professor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (
SHAPE) America.
SHAPE is the voice for more than 200,000 health and physical education professionals nationally, having served as the foundation for well-designed physical education programs across the country.
A Health and Physical Education (
HPE) Assistant Professor at
Erin Centeio was also appointed to the
As part of her role on the board, Centeio will help provide professional development opportunities, share free resources from across the country, help states and teachers advocate for the importance of health and physical education (
UH President David Lassner and Admiral Phil Davidson, Commander
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, exchange a handshake during a signing ceremony. Both signed a memorandum of understanding, deepening cooperation between
U.S.
INDOPACOM and the University of Hawaiʻi. (Photo credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony J. Rivera)
Development of new technologies, climate-change solutions, and student educational and career opportunities are just some of the aims of a new agreement between the University of Hawaiʻi and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (
INDOPACOM).
INDOPACOM is tasked with using and integrating the four branches of the military within the Indo-Pacific region to achieve