WAIKIKI, Hawaii, Sept. 5 -- UNITE HERE, a labor union in the U.S. and Canada, issued the following news release: Today 7,800 UNITE HERE hotel workers at Marriott-operated hotels across four of the largest tourism destination locations in North America announced that they will be holding strike votes against Marriott next week in a series of rolling votes. The strike votes for next week in Waikiki, Maui, San Francisco, and Boston Marriott hotels cover 7,800 union UNITE HERE workers throughout tw  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- B'nai B'rith International issued the following news release: B'nai B'rith International has opened its Disaster Relief Campaign to assist in two domestic disasters. It will provide assistance to the Idyllwild Help Center in Idyllwild, California in response to the wildfires that have devastated the community, and the Ahava 'Aina Synagogue in Hawaii whose members have been dealing with the impact from the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano. We are providing an allocation to  more

CLINTON, New York, Sept. 6 -- Hamilton College issued the following news: Simon Coppard, scholar-in-residence in biology, recently published a research paper titled "Gene expression across tissues, sex, and life stages in the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla" in the journal Marine Genomics. The article was written with Aki JarlLarusona and Floyd Reeda of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Melissa Pespenic of the University of Vermont. Coppard and his co-authors conducted research that genera  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Sept. 4 -- The University of Hawaii's Manoa campus issued the following news release: A pioneer in genome editing opens the Rose and Raymond Tseng Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, September 17, at 7 p.m., in the University of Hawaii at HiloPerforming Arts Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., an internationally renowned professor of chemistry and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, presen  more

HILO, Hawaii, Sept. 4 -- The University of Hawaii's Hilo campus issued the following news release: A pioneer in genome editing opens the Rose and Raymond Tseng Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, September 17, at 7 p.m., in the University of Hawaii at HiloPerforming Arts Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., an internationally renowned professor of chemistry and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, presents  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 6 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: On Sept. 5, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, submitted into the record of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing a letter organized by the Secular Coalition of America and signed by FFRF urging senators to reject his nomination. The Freedom From Religion Foundation proudly signed onto this letter, which pointed out that Kavanaugh's nomination is a threat to the constitutional order   more

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, Sept. 7 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University issued the following news release: From Bosnia to Korea and assignments to the South Pole and Joint Typhoon Warning Centers in Guam and Hawaii, U.S. Air Force Col. Jason Patla has been all over the world providing weather intelligence to the U.S. Army and Air Force. With a specialty in tropical cyclones and climatology, the aviation and space forecasts from his squadrons aided four-star generals and admirals in their decis  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation issued the following news release: The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced seven grants totaling $1.5 million to reduce derelict fishing gear - lost, abandoned or discarded in the marine environment - in targeted areas in U.S. coastal waters. The projects supported by the seven grants announced today will support the removal and disposal of an estimated 170,000 pounds of derelict gear from the coastal wa  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Sept. 6 -- The University of Hawaii's Manoa campus issued the following news release: Two University of Hawai'i at Manoa students are the only U.S. award recipients of the 2018-19 Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Japanese government's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). JiaJie He and Yunmi Kim are Japanese language majors in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Both are also graduates of Hawai`i public high schools. The De  more

HILO, Hawaii, Sept. 7 -- The University of Hawaii's Hilo campus issued the following news release: University of Hawaii at Hilo Visiting Artist Miwa Matreyek performs "This World Made Itself" at the Palace Theater on Friday, September 14, 7-8:30 pm. Doors open at 6 pm. Matreyek will also deliver a free public lecture in UH Hilo's Campus Center Room 301 on Thursday, September 13, from 2-3 pm. She will be at UH Hilo September 12 - 22. Matreyek is an animator, director, designer, and performer ba  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Sept. 5 -- The University of Hawaii's Manoa campus issued the following news release: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that computer science and related industries are projected to grow faster than any other over the next 10 years, and U.S. universities are not currently able to meet the projected demand. To combat this problem, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to evaluate a new a  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Sept. 6 -- The University of Hawaii's Manoa campus issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii-West Oahu is once again the fastest growing school of its type in the nation, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual almanac. The chronicle's Almanac of Higher Education 2018-19 listed UH West Oahu's enrollment growth tops among 86 public baccalaureate granting institutions. Enrollment jumped 239 percent between 2006, when the campus had 866 students, a  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Sept. 6 -- The University of Hawaii's Manoa campus issued the following news release: Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) are discovering how forest conservation in Fiji can minimize the impact of human activities on coral reefs and their fish populations. Authors of a newly published study in Scientific Reports have used innovative modeling tools to identify specific locations on the land where conservation actions would y  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 7 -- The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science issued the following news: University of Miami (UM) scientists will participate in a Sept. 8 testing expedition on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the world's first ocean cleanup system, a large area of plastic debris between Hawaii and California. UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Professor David Die is providing expertise as a research collaborator to the Californ  more