{"id":61000,"date":"2017-06-02T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=61000"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:17:58","slug":"albie-miles-kamehameha-schools-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/02\/albie-miles-kamehameha-schools-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Albie Miles receives $154,000 grant from Kamehameha Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/westoahu-sustainablefood-kamehameha.jpg\" alt=\"Woman working in field\" width=\"620\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/westoahu-sustainablefood-kamehameha.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/westoahu-sustainablefood-kamehameha-260x150.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\"><strong>Albie Miles<\/strong>, an agroecologist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of Â鶹´«Ã½&#8211;West O&#699;ahu<\/a> assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/bachelor-of-applied-sciences\/food-systems\/\">sustainable community food systems<\/a>, received a $154,000 grant from Kamehameha Schools.\u00a0The grant funds research and promotional activities relating to the advancement of sustainable community food systems in Â鶹´«Ã½.<\/p>\n<p>The grant supports\u00a0two positions in the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An indigenous natural resources management junior\u00a0specialist, which is currently filled by <strong>Daniel &ldquo;Bubba&rdquo; Lipe<\/strong> who is conducting research and teaching at the intersection of traditional ecological knowledge and western science. Lipe is\u00a0responsible for creating a wide range of courses on traditional food and agricultural systems of Â鶹´«Ã½ and beyond.\n<li>\n<li>A <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West O&#699;ahu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/ekamakanihou\/?tag=uhwo-student-organic-garden\">Student Organic Garden<\/a> manager, currently occupied by <strong>Tasia Yamamura<\/strong> who manages the garden and offers a range of programs for the campus and surrounding community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kamehameha Schools received a record 150 proposals requesting more than $60 million in funding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/ekamakanihou\/?p=4750\">Miles and the <abbr title=\"Sustainable Community Food Systems\">SCFS<\/abbr> program previously received $169,861 from Kamehameha Schools<\/a>\u00a0as part of an\u00a0<span aria-label=\"Aina\">&#699;Aina<\/span> Ulu\u00a0grant\u00a0to\u00a0manage agricultural and conservation\u00a0lands and provide culture-based and place-based learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>For more about sustainable community food systems program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/ekamakanihou\/?p=5785\">read the full story at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>&#8217;s <em>E Kamakani Hou<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Leila Wai Shimokawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grant funds research and promotional activities relating to the advancement of sustainable community food systems in Â鶹´«Ã½.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[906,861,59],"class_list":["post-61000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-e-kamakani-hou","tag-sustainable-community-food-systems","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61000"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112537,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61000\/revisions\/112537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}