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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 nonviolent core need to think creatively about their tools and practices, especially when faced with viole...

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 and the planet. UH became a member institution in 2018 as part of the UHealthy Hawaiʻi initiative, w...

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 imperative. The theme “20 Years of Blessings” is a reflection of appreciation for the past, pres...

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 most amazing honor, and one that I would have never thought possible. The Gass Medal is like the Heism...

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 chose Hawaiʻi to participate due to its oral health needs. About 60% of elementary school students in...