MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, Dec. 22 (TNSres) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: Wesleyan's faculty has been hard-at-work in 2023 sharing their scholarship with the world. Here are some of the books written by Wesleyan's faculty over the past year. * * * Homesick Blues: Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan by Scott Aalgaard (https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/homesick-blues-politics-protest-and-musical-storytelling-in-modern-japan/) Assistant Profe  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 21 -- Gov. Josh Green, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2023: Governor Josh Green, M.D., today named State Representative and former State House Vice Speaker John Mizuno as the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness. Mizuno will succeed James Koshiba, who laid the groundwork for Governor Green's campaign to reduce chronic homelessness and provide housing solutions for the disadvantaged. Koshiba will return to nonprofit work. A successor for Mizuno  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 21 -- Hawaii State Auditor issued the following report (No. 23-17) on Dec. 20, 2023, entitled "Review of Special Funds, Revolving Funds, Trust Funds, and Trust Accounts of the Department of Accounting and General Services." Here are excerpts: * * * AUDITOR'S SUMMARY One revolving fund, one trust fund, and five trust accounts did not meet criteria OUR REVIEW of seven special funds, five revolving funds, nine trust funds, and twelve trust accounts of the Department of A  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 23 -- The Hawaii Department of Transportation issued the following news: The Hawai'i Department of Transportation (HDOT) reports that work is on track to reopen the town-bound lanes of Pali Highway (Route 61) from the highway's intersection with Kamehameha Highway (Castle Junction) to the vicinity of Nu'uanu Pali Drive by 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 24. The town-bound lanes were closed Wednesday, Dec. 20 in response to a landslide approximately 100-yards outside the 2nd tunnel.   more

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, Dec. 21 -- Indiana University issued the following news release: Indiana University faculty member Charles Horowitz received the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics Mentoring Award at the organization's Nov. 30 meeting in Hawaii. Horowitz was honored for his "selfless mentorship and support of students and postdocs over four decades, and outstanding mentorship of early-career scientists from historically underrepresented groups in physics." The annual   more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 21 -- The Hawaii Department of Transportation issued the following news: The U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii and the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) announced important progress in the continuing negotiations for a new long-term lease at Kawaihapai Airfield, formerly known as Dillingham Airfield, to ensure the North Shore airfield remains open for commercial activities. The current short-term lease between the Army and HDOT expires on July 5, 2024. "Like so  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers set out to answer in a study published in One Health. Randi Rollins, Matthew Medeiros and Robert Cowie of UH Manoa's Pacific Biosciences Research Center, found that rat lungworm larvae (th  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 19 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news on Dec. 18, 2023: Frank Marshall Davis was virtually lost to the canon of African American poets when he left the 48 contiguous states for the Territory of Hawaii in 1948. Twenty-five years later, he would be discovered and brought back to the mainland to an appreciative audience of students at several historically Black colleges and universities. In new work, a University of Kansas professor emeritus of English mai  more

SANTA BARBARA, California, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- Westmont College issued the following news: By Scott Craig Two Westmont students presented their research at a joint meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the American and Japanese Physics Societies Nov. 26-Dec. 1 on the Big Island of Hawaii. Natalie Fogg '24 and Reese Toepfer '26 joined Robert Haring-Kaye, Westmont professor of physics and department chair of physics and engineering, at the event that featured more than 100 undergraduates f  more