HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 14 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Pearl City High School students studying health care pathways hosted an inaugural Keiki Career and Health Fair today for neighboring elementary schools. Approximately 260 fifth and sixth graders from Lehua, Manana and Momilani elementary schools were invited to explore health careers, participate in interactive workshops, learn about the human body systems, and tour Pearl City H  more

LIHUE, Hawaii, March 15 -- The Hawaii Department of Health issued the following news release on March 14, 2024: The Kauai District Health Office (KDHO) is hosting an open house on Friday, April 5, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 3040 Umi St. in Lihue. The event will be open at no cost to the public in celebration of National Public Health Week. The April 5 event will provide the public with an opportunity to speak with Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) staff about programs as well as acti  more

KANE'OHE, Hawaii, March 14 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: Blaise Babineck, 18, and Skye Yasuda, 20, are two of the youngest full-time teachers in the Hawai'i State Department of Education. Through the Early College program, they both earned bachelor's degrees in less than four years, allowing them to get a head start on their teaching careers. Babineck is an eighth grade science teacher at King Intermediate School on Oahu's Windward coast. There is no   more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 15 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: The Hawai'i State Department of Education (HIDOE) named its 2022 and 2023 Employee, Manager and Team of the Year award winners, recognizing employees for their outstanding and continued contributions to education and the students of Hawai'i. "We have incredible individuals who have gone above and beyond the call of duty of their service and are deserving of their recognition of employee and tea  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 16 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * Fifteen HIDOE schools are participating in this year's Young Entrepreneurs Program, which is designed to empower students in grades 6-12 to develop real-world profitable businesses that feature original locally sourced agricultural products. * * * Hawai'i public school students are creating products featuring locally sourced materials and products like coffee, lavender, macadamia nuts,   more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 16 -- The Hawaii Department of Education issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Hawai'i State Department of Education (HIDOE) a more than $2 million grant to help address the acute needs of students and educators who were directly impacted by the Maui wildfires. The HIDOE applied for and was awarded a School Emergency Response to Violence -- or Project SERV -- grant, which provides short-term education-related services for sc  more

MANOA, Hawaii, March 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: Researchers may have a new way to monitor the health of reefs around Hawaii. A study co-led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa doctoral student revealed that each type of coral and algae from a coral reef produced a unique suite of chemical compounds was published in Communications Biology. Many of these new metabolites haven't been studied before. They could provide important insight in  more

MANOA, Hawaii, March 12 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: Storied Native Hawaiian navigator and explorer Nainoa Thompson will be recognized as Honorary Geographer of the Year when the American Association of Geographers (AAG) holds its 2024 annual meeting April 16-20, at the Hawaii Convention Center. The Department of Geography and Environment (GEO) in the College of Social Sciences at UH Manoa is the lead organizer in Hawaii. AAG, headquartered in Was  more

MANOA, Hawaii, March 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: In preparation for the 2024 Olympic surfing competition, a new judging tower is being constructed in the reef lagoon at Teahupo'o, Tahiti. That construction poses a threat to the reef and its ecosystem, according to researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, UH Hilo, Arizona State University and community partners in Tahiti. The group published a study in Remote Sensing that as  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: In preparation for the 2024 Olympic surfing competition, a new judging tower is being constructed in the reef lagoon at Teahupo'o, Tahiti. That construction poses a threat to the reef and its ecosystem, according to researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, UH Hilo, Arizona State University and community partners in Tahiti. The group published a study in Remote Sensing that assessed the  more

MANOA, Hawaii, March 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: University of Hawaii at Manoa public health researchers are collecting data from outrigger canoe paddlers to determine the activity's metabolic equivalents (METs), which show how many calories or energy expenditure a person burns when engaged in a physical activity. A total of 60 participants, including competitive and recreational paddlers with and without a spinal cord injury, were p  more