HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 20 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2023: The Hawai'i State Board of Education today unanimously approved the Hawai'i State Department of Education's (HIDOE) recommendation to appoint Disa Hauge as complex area superintendent to oversee the schools in the Nanakuli-Wai'anae Complex Area. The Board's Human Resources Committee previously voted on the recommendation at an Oct. 4 meeting. Hauge has been serving as the interim  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 19 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: Given the extraordinary impact on the Maui community, the Hawaii Department of Education (Department) is requesting a one-year waiver from accountability determinations and reporting for the 2023-2024 school year. Background This waiver request is in response to the devastation and disruption caused by the August 8, 2023, Maui Island wildfires, and its island-wide impact on the island's student  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 19 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: Lahaina's two elementary schools reopened to hundreds of students today on a shared campus that faculty and staff from both schools have worked hard to make as inviting and familiar as possible for their communities impacted by the August wildfires. The King Kamehameha III Elementary campus - which had been located along Front Street and was lost to the fires - is sharing the Pri  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 21 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following statement on Oct. 19, 2023: * * * In response to increasing attacks on transgender communities in the U.S., the Hawai'i Department of Health (DOH) recently released its "Statement on Transgender Rights and Public Health." In alignment with the DOH mission, the statement denounces discrimination, including transphobia and transphobic action, which is recognized as a threat to public health. According to local hea  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2023: The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) announced today that preliminary, unvalidated data from ash sampling it received late Friday night shows very high levels of arsenic in wildfire ash collected in Kula. The testing also indicated elevated levels of lead and cobalt. Parameter ... Unit ... Lab Report #1 ... Lab Report #2 ... Lab Report #3 ... Mean Lab Reports ... Soil Envi  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Oct. 21 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: University of Hawai'i at Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin announces the appointment of Dr. Rae Matsumoto as the permanent dean of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy following the October 19, 2023 UH Board of Regents meeting. Matsumoto's appointment is effective November 16, 2023. She replaces Interim Dean Miriam Mobley Smith. Matsumoto is currently a professor of physiology and pharmacology   more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 21 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: University of Hawai'i at Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin announces the appointment of Dr. Rae Matsumoto as the permanent dean of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy following the October 19, 2023 UH Board of Regents meeting. Matsumoto's appointment is effective November 16, 2023. She replaces Interim Dean Miriam Mobley Smith. Matsumoto is currently a professor of physiology and pharmacology at the Uni  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Oct. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: The number of fish to catch around O'ahu got a small boost when a team including University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers released about 150 tagged papio (juvenile ulua or giant trevally) into waters around the island. Now, fishermen can help those researchers with important data by catching the tagged fish and reporting the information while also winning prizes. Fishermen can keep all   more

MANOA, Hawaii, Oct. 19 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: A new interactive sea-level rise viewer for the Territory of American Samoa was released to the public, enabling the community to visualize how the shoreline is likely to change from coastal flooding, sea-level rise, hurricane storm surge and high tides. The visualization tool will be an essential component in future planning to assess the short and long-term impacts of rising seas and to minimi  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: As the climate warms, there is major concern that Earth's oceans will lose oxygen. A study published by oceanographers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa revealed that locked in ancient deep-sea sediments is evidence for oxygen loss in the world's ocean during past glacial periods. Scientists first measured oxygen in the oceans in the 1960s. Since then, they have obs  more