Richard Kekuni Blaisdell, founding chair of the Department of Medicine at the UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine died of respiratory failure on February 12.
UH Mānoa Professor Heinz Gert de Couet appointed division director for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.
Stephen Vargo, Loïc Le Marchand and Laurence Kolonel have been named to Thomson Reuters’ World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds and Highly Cited Researcher lists in 2015.
Michael Sana awarded 2015–16 Milken Educator Award for excellence in education.
NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education award named after UH West Oʻahu Interim Chancellor Doris Ching.
Professor Robert A. Blust of UH Mānoa’s Department of Linguistics recognized for tremendous contributions to the field of linguistics.
John Madey, professor in the physics and astronomy department at UH Mānoa receives prestigious Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics.
UH West Oʻahu’s Chadwick Kamei inducted into the Bandworld Legion of Honor for outstanding work as band director.
Union, a feature screenplay by UH Mānoa Associate Professor Marc Moody accepted to the 2016 Richmond International Film Festival.
Gabriel Nakashima, founder of the Charter Substitute Teacher Network, is among the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education.