Happy #AlohaFriday! See you on Monday!

📖 University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program's latest issue of Ka Pili Kai titled "Ola I Ka Wai, Water is Life," was just released! Ka Pili Kai is their free biannual magazine which celebrates the people and places across the Pacific region and their deep connection to all things related to the sea through vivid photographs and inspiring stories. Check it out here ⬇

🚗🚌🛵 With the fall 2019 rush coming up, UH Mānoa Commuter Services wants to remind students, faculty and staff of available commuter options to campus. #MoveWithAloha

✍️ In conjunction with Viet Nguyen’s visit, a student writing contest is being held. Undergraduate and graduate students who are registered in the fall 2019 semester are encouraged to read, study and engage in Nguyen’s work and express their ideas in writing.

On Tuesday, August 27, from 9am - 3:30pm, a blood drive on behalf of Jana Wieland will be held at the Campus Center executive dining room. In attendance will be Jana and other John A. Burns School of Medicine students who are involved in Medical Innovation & Design (MIND) #Hawaii, which is co-sponsoring the drive with the Blood Bank of Hawaii. MIND’s mission is to bring together #UHohana students and faculty from fields such as business, medicine, engineering, law and marketing to develop solutions to challenging medical problems.

👏 Dean Boland’s achievements include the expansion of the nurse practitioner programs to improve access to care, and the introduction of the Graduate Entry to Nursing Program, doctor of nursing practice degree and the expanded function dental hygienist certificate. The nationally ranked programs attract the best and brightest #Hawaii students.
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In memoriam: Christian Lyder Gulbrandsen, retired dean and professor emeritus of medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, died in his Waimea home on #Hawaii Island on August 8. He was 80. #FacesOfManoa

🛰️ The UH Institute for Astronomy is teaming up with the Hawaii Science and Technology Museum and #Hilo students to launch a mini satellite, or CubeSat, into space. HSTM was recently awarded the DREAM Payload Program grant from HSTM, to assemble the CubeSat and install instrumentation for four distinct experiments.

🗓️🥳 Join us as we kick off the fall semester with a FREE event featuring great food, live music, prizes, giveaways and more!!! Our 3rd annual #WelinaManoa: And the Adventure Begins will be held on Monday, August 26, 3:30–6pm. Details ➡️ https://bit.ly/33KIgyK #MakeManoaYours

🗒️ The University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program recently released the Guidance for Disaster Recovery Preparedness in #Hawaii, a publication to help coastal communities plan to recover from disasters before they strike.

🔍 #UHMResearch: International researchers, including those at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST, have quantified for the first time that the effect of icebergs breaking off from ice shelves in the Antarctic can weaken and delay the effects of global warming in the Southern Hemisphere.

👀 American Samoa Community College and #UHManoa are working together to create specific course programs running on HoloCampus, which could lead to students in American Samoa earning credits and grades toward UH degrees, with UH academics and students benefiting from greater access to ASCC and its teachers, learning and resources. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2Nj6pXr

🔍 #UHMResearch: The researchers’ new approach to investigating sponge feeding strategies can be applied to future research on other marine sponges in Hawaiʻi and elsewhere. Sponges play an important role in the nutrient dynamics of coral reefs and, in the future, they may rise to dominate coral reefs as corals decline due to direct pressure from human activity and climate change.

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST

Mahalo! Mary G. Boland, dean of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Nursing and Dental Hygiene, announced plans to retire in summer 2020 during a meeting with faculty and staff today. As the longest-serving dean of the School, Boland successfully led three nursing and two dental hygiene national accreditations and oversaw the funding and construction of the nationally recognized UH Translational Health Sciences Simulation Center, directed by Lorrie Wong, that serves students, clinicians, and health care organizations. #FacesOfManoa

🗓️🕷️ Join ACM for a FREE public talk with Peter Ramsey, the Academy Award Winning Co-Director of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Peter will be speaking on a range of topics related to filmmaking, animation, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and the current state of diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry. The talk will take place on Tuesday, September 3 from 6-8pm in the Art Auditorium.

🍽️ Join Lyon Arboretum - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa for a workshop with Executive Chef Hitoshi Sugiura. He earned Japan's 2019 Top Vegan Chef Award! The chef will offer unique instruction on haute vegan cuisine with influences and foundations rooted in the ‘shojin ryori’ philosophy of devotion cuisine and his extensive experience in prestigious kitchens. The workshop takes place on Friday, August 30, 10am – 1pm. $50/person. Space is limited. Call 808-988-0456 to sign up!

☀️ #ManoaMornings: Students who have purchased their parking permits online may now pick them up at Administrative Building #2, the old post office, from now until August 28. Details ➡️ manoa.hawaii.edu/commuter

This concludes the test of the UHM integrated campus-wide UH ALERT emergency communications system. In an actual emergency, you would be given instructions, updates and, ultimately, the final all-clear notification via emails and text messages (if you have signed up to receive emergency text alerts). Keep your emergency contact information up-to-date at http://www.hawaii.edu/alert. Emergency information, updates and the all-clear message would also be conveyed via the UHM home page at http://manoa.hawaii.edu/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uhmanoa, and Twitter at http://twitter.com/UHManoa. This TEST is conducted once each semester. If you are having technical trouble with UH ALERT, see the article at http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/1363 or send an email to em- info@lists.hawaii.edu. In addition to signing up for UH Alert, we encourage our community to read through our Emergency Response Guidebook, which provides emergency response and evacuation procedures for a wide variety of incidents, including hurricanes, natural disasters, fires, active shooter incidents, bomb threats, civil disturbances, and more. Visit http://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/PDFs/EmergencyResponseGuidebook.pdf to download this guide. #UHAlert #UHMAlert

📦📦📦 Expect traffic delays around the #UHManoa campus this week, as nearly 3,500 students move into campus residence halls from August 21-23. Move-in activities will start at 8am and may affect traffic on Dole Street and University Avenue. Details: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/housing/movein2019

(UHM Alert) TEST of UH Alert emergency communications system & lockdown procedures This is a TEST email of the UHM integrated campus-wide UH ALERT emergency communications system. While it is not required, we hope that you will participate in this lockdown exercise. Please follow the instructions below: - Immediately lock the door and turn off the lights and any source of noise (radios, videos, etc). If you are outdoors, immediately enter the nearest building and shelter in place. - If possible, barricade the door with furniture. Take a few minutes with to review the active shooter section of the emergency response guidebook (as a group if you are with others): https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/PDFs/EmergencyResponseGuidebook.pdf. This guidebook provides emergency response and evacuation procedures for a wide variety of incidents, including hurricanes, natural disasters, fires, active shooter incidents, bomb threats, civil disturbances, and more. - Once you receive the “all clear” message that the drill has concluded, normal activities may resume. In an actual emergency, you would be given instructions, updates and, ultimately, the final all-clear notification via emails and text messages (if you have signed up to receive emergency text alerts). Keep your emergency contact information up-to-date at http://www.hawaii.edu/alert. Emergency information, updates and the all-clear message would also be conveyed via the UHM home page at http://manoa.hawaii.edu/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uhmanoa, and Twitter at http://twitter.com/UHManoa. This TEST is conducted once each semester. If you are having technical trouble with UH ALERT, see the article at http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/1363 or send an email to em- info@lists.hawaii.edu.

📏 #UHinTheCommunity: The project, led by the UHCDC in the University of Hawaii, School of Architecture - archawaii, was commissioned by the Hawaii DLNR (Department of Land and Natural Resources) with a tentative deadline of December 2019.

#UHMResearch: A #UHManoa postdoctoral fellow took part in a world record for the deepest controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey of the seafloor. At 5,150 meters (approximately 3.2 miles) below sea level, the record-breaking survey happened above an oceanic trench in the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction Zone (AASZ) on June 6, 2019.

UH Manoa Department of Public Safety will be conducting a campus-wide test of emergency communications capabilities tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug 20, between 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (noon) in conjunction with a campus-wide lockdown/shelter-in-place exercise. Visit https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps for details. #UHAlert #UHMAlert

The survey summary notes that #UHManoa students said recreation facilities are great; they are happy and think fellow students are friendly; diverse student types interact on campus; and they get along with the local community.

🗓️🇯🇵 The scholar considered to be the world’s leading expert on Japan’s imperial history and its spread to the transpacific, including to #Hawai, will present the keynote address at the inaugural Empire Studies Initiative. Eiichiro Azuma of the University of Pennsylvania will give a free public lecture, “Narrating Transpacific Imperial History,” on Tuesday, August 20 from 3–5pm in Hamilton Library 301.