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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw has announced to the university community that, upon conclusion of her five-year appointment in June of 2012, she will be completing her service as chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Hinshaw was named chancellor after a nationwide search and assumed the position in 2007.

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Former Kamehameha-Hawaii baseball player Kolten Wong was selected in the first round in today’s Major League Baseball draft, picked as the 22nd overall player by the St. Louis Cardinals.

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The UH Rainbow Wahine basketball team were defeated by the East Carolina University Pirates. The game was on the final night of the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Shootout at Hilo’s Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

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The University of Hawai‘i has selected six faculty members from campuses across the university system as the recipients of the Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In memory of the late Frances Davis who taught mathematics at Leeward Community College and University of HawaiÊ»i at Mānoa for 19 years, the award recognizes UH […]

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MEDIA RELEASE To ensure Hawaii high school students have the opportunity to attend college, Nancy C. Manley pledged $200,000 to establish the Timothy M. and Nancy C. Manley Chancellor’s Achievement Endowed Scholarship. In the 1940s, Nancy wanted to go to college but did not have the financial means. It was a difficult and painful experience […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Two new initiatives at the University of Hawaii are designed to better serve students who transfer between the two year and four year campuses. A new automatic admission and reverse transfer procedure aims to improve degree attainment in the state and allow the UH campuses to work together to help students achieve their […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has announced the selection of Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD, JD, MPH, to its active membership. DeLeon, Chief of Staff in Washington, DC for U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, is a Clinical Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s John […]

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Andrew Hashimoto, dean and director of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, gave the following testimony to the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee about the potential impacts of laying off  Department of Agriculture staff. I am pleased to provide personal testimony relating to the potential impacts on […]

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MEDIA RELEASE HONOLULU – The Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH) today confirmed one additional case of novel H1N1 Influenza A (swine flu) in an adult resident of Oahu. The individual is a student at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and school officials have been notified. The individual had no history of recent travel and […]

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