👀 Your #UHManoa has been identified as one of the nation’s “most beautiful, yet affordable” college campuses in 2019, according to Affordable Schools, a leading higher education resource. #ExploreUHM #MakeManoaYours

🐦 Fewer than 500 ʻakikiki exist in the wild. Introduced disease such as avian malaria, as well as loss of native forest habitat, hurricanes and the introduction of non-native predator species like cats and rats, have all contributed to the decline of the species. #UHMResearch

⚖️ It was the final day of the free weeklong Law and Justice Summer Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Led by Associate Faculty Specialist Liam Skilling, the program introduces high school students to the legal profession. #MakeManoaYours

⚖️ The latest issue of PreLaw Magazine named the William S. Richardson School of Law as the top Asian law school in the nation, based on demographics of both students and faculty, as well as number four for overall diversity. #MakeManoaYours

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Incoming #UHManoa freshmen who sign up for the Manoa First Year Program are placed in learning communities. They take a weekly seminar led by a peer mentor, an upperclassman, who leads discussions covering college success and their own personal experiences. Students who participate in the Manoa First Year Program are more likely to return after their freshman year, graduate and graduate on time.

Learn more at UH News: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/06/12/uh-manoa-first-year-program/

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📜 New degree alert! The School of Pacific and Asian Studies will begin offering a new advanced degree this fall designed for working professionals and organizations seeking to engage with Asia and the necessary knowledge to deal sensitively with complex international and domestic issues in the region. #MakeManoaYours

A scholarly focus on sustainability and stewardship - Three graduates from the Global Environmental Science program in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST work toward a healthy #Hawaii.

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🔍 #UHMResearch: A new model developed by marine biologists at #UHManoa and the University of Alberta is providing insight into the impact of #lionfish, a venomous predatory fish that has invaded more than 7.3 million square kilometers in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, wreaking havoc among native fish populations.

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🚢 #UHManoa Professor Patricia Fryer was requested to participate in this expedition for her expertise in the #MarianaTrench. She was there when the first remotely-operated vehicle from the United States dove to the Challenger Deep in 2009.

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📖 University of Hawaii Foundation's Spring 2019 issue is here!!! The new issue highlights Chenoa Farnsworth's views on women entrepreneurs and what matters most to baseball coaches Joey Estrella and Gerald Oda. Download it here ➡️ https://bit.ly/2Kaguo9

The new pilot initiative, Summer Advising, runs from June 17 to July 5 and is spearheaded by the Mānoa Advising Center in collaboration with nearly all #UHManoa undergraduate advising offices. #MakeManoaYours

👀 The success of Hawaiʻi’s Engaged Science Technology Engineering Math Pathways (HESTEMP) project activities have resulted in two additional NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration grants. The project, spearheaded by the UH Manoa College of Engineering, establishes and strengthens research and educational pathways to support the success of underrepresented and minority ethnicities.

The 1️⃣0️⃣-year accreditation is the longest assigned by the American Psychological Association. #UHManoa is the only university counseling center and one of three doctoral training programs statewide to be accredited for this length of time. The doctoral internship in health service psychology has earned national accreditation through 2028.

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#UHMResearch: Native Hawaiians and Japanese Americans have a higher risk than other ethnic/racial groups of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study by University of Hawaii Cancer Center researchers published in Cancer Medicine.

All 10 #UHohana campuses will be closed tomorrow in observance of #KamehamehaDay

🎤 Happening this Thursday: Waikiki Aquarium's popular annual summer concert series, Ke Kani O Ke Kai, offers visitors and residents an evening of live entertainment and food under the stars. Doors open at 5:30pm and the concert starts at 7pm! Details 🎟️⬇️⬇️⬇️

🏎️ The #UHManoa Rainbow Warrior car racing team from the UH Manoa College of Engineering made last-minute tweaks and test runs before the vehicle was shipped to Nebraska for the 2019 SAE International (SAE) Collegiate Design Competition. The team received an extra boost from UPS Hawaii. The company is transporting the vehicle to and from Honolulu and Nebraska, worth an estimated $15,200. Read more at: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/06/10/sae-car-competition/

👀 #FacesOfManoa: A researcher emeritus with the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST has been appointed to the science advisory board for the Blue Origin lunar lander, called Blue Moon. The board provides feedback to the Blue Moon team about lunar surface composition and material properties, sampling strategies, lander design, landing site selection, lunar science goals and resource exploration.

👏 “I do not think I can adequately acknowledge the significance of their generosity,” said Dean Jon Osorio of the Ifuku family. “It is not just a gift to Hawaiʻinuiākea; it is a gift to the artisans who crafted the pieces, to the people for whom they were made, and to the pieces themselves that actually have a life of their own. These precious artifacts will be individually returned to the purposes for which they were made, including the ability to be used again to beat kapa, to pound taro, and to serve as models for young artisans and carvers.”

👏 #FacesOfManoa: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Roger T. Ames received the 2019 John Dewey Society (JDS) Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a scholar-practitioner, working and living in both the Deweyan and Confucian traditions.

👏 An earthquake modeler in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST, was named the 2019 ARCS Scholar of the Year, and a dozen other #UHManoa graduate students received ARCS Scholar Awards at the ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter’s recent year-end banquet.