National Cancer Institute boosts UH Cancer Center support to $8.4M
The National Cancer Institute increased its support of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ Cancer Center from $5.7 million to $8.4 million and extended its NCI designation to July 2022.
Spring 2019 commencement schedule
The University of Â鶹´«Ã½ celebrates at spring commencement ceremonies systemwide.
Bias against Micronesians in Hawai?i explored in UH social work research
In a School of Social Work study of more than 500 people from the Micronesian region currently living in Â鶹´«Ã½, 24 percent reported discrimination because of their ethnicity.
UH+community=beneficial health outcomes
Researchers take the time to get to know their communities by being present and listening to their concerns and priorities.
More children could mean higher risk of heart disease
Public health researchers report that, in a survey of 25,000 participants, 30 percent of parents who said they had five or more keiki had a heart condition.
Tuberculosis could be eradicated in 26 years, public health report says
Researchers, including Victoria Fan in the UH Office of Public Health Studies, say ridding the world of TB is a realistic goal.
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ graduate programs receive national recognition
The medical, nursing, law and social work schools, and four colleges, made the U.S. News and World Report’s 2020 ranking.
Award-winning author of The Art of Choosing to speak at UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹
Sheena Iyengar, the world¡¯s foremost expert on choice, will speak at a free public lecture at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½at ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ on March 14, 2019.
Training college students in Brazil how to improve their country¡¯s public health
UH researchers are partnering with Brazilian epidemiologists to teach college students in Brazil about public health issues.
Foster children who become homeless have increased risk for HIV
Important new research is led by Assistant Professor Amanda Yoshioka-Maxwell in the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.