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BY TINA SHELTON - Second year medical students at UH Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) have out-scored their peers across the nation in the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 for the seventh year in a row, most recently with 100% of the class passing the exam, and the class’ scores exceeding [...]
REPORT FROM THE DOE - Top school leaders were celebrated by the Hawaii Association of Secondary School Administrators at a special awards banquet held at the Hale Koa Hotel on May 6. Randiann Porras-Tang, principal of Waialua High and Intermediate School, has been named the 2012 MetLife /National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Hawaii High [...]
REPORT FROM THE OFFICE OF U.S. SENATOR DANIEL INOUYE, D-HAWAII -- The Hawaii Congressional Delegation released the following statement in support of Hawaii's $75 million Race to the Top Grant after the U.S. Department of Education acknowledged that Hawaii has made significant progress in recent months. “Hawaii has made significant progress with its Race to [...]
HONOLULU, HAWAII - After an exciting three days of competition, the 2012 FIRST Championship robotics competition ended today with Kalani High School receiving the Making FIRST Accessible Award. The Kalani Falcon's outreach into the community and ability to introduce robotics to new people of all ages, were a few of the reasons they recieved the [...]
The 2012 FIRST Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, is underway. Hawaii has seven teams represented at the competition: Waialua High School, Kalani High School, Island Pacific Academy, Punahou School, Baldwin High School, Kealakehe High School, and Kohala High School. Today marks the first day of actual competition at the Championships. All seven Hawaii teams competing [...]
The Hawai‘i State Senate has confirmed the appointment of four new members of the University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents effective July 1, 2012, and renewed the appointment of two Regents, effective immediately. They are: John C. Dean, representing Honolulu County, is president and chief executive officer of Central Pacific Bank and Central Pacific Financial [...]
The University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law dropped 11 spots in a national ranking released this week. The law school, founded in 1973 on the University's Manoa Campus, is now ranked 106 best by U.S. News & World Report. The analysis includes information about the schools' location, tuition, size, and test scores, along with specialities [...]
REPORT FROM IOLANI SCHOOL - High school teams from Iolani School each claimed division titles in the 2012 Island Insurance Companies Economics Challenge. Hosted by the Hawaii Council on Economic Education on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at the University of Hawaii Campus Center Ballroom, the spirited competition featured nearly 175 registered students from Hawaii private [...]
REPORT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - Leaders of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa today announced plans to create a School of Global and Community Health to build on and expand the work of the former School of Public Health, which was closed in 1999 for fiscal reasons. In a joint statement, Mānoa Chancellor [...]
REPORT FROM THE HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - Hawaii public school students made an impressive showing at the 2012 Student Television Network Convention (STN) held in Dallas, Texas, on March 21, 2012 through March 24, 2012, bringing home a total of 23 awards. STN is a nonprofit organization started in 1999 by a group of [...]
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