CAMPUS LIFE
2022
August
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Title: HPU College of Business Dean Selected as Featured Speaker at Coursera Webinar
Date: August 30, 2022
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HPU College of Business Dean Mark Rosenbaum, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker at an upcoming Coursera for Campus webinar on September 13. “The Evolution of Higher Education with Industry Micro-Credentials” webinar will focus on the importance of skills-based learning. Rosenbaum will be joined by the Global Head of Coursera for Campus Scott Shireman who has over 20 years of leadership experience in higher education.
The 45-minute webinar will examine the global pandemic and how it has drastically changed the way we all work. Many companies have experienced skill gaps and have had to adapt employees’ capabilities to meet rapidly changing technologies. In response, organizations are changing their recruiting priorities and are seeking more practical, job-ready skills when hiring entry-level employees.
Rosenbaum states that he will discuss how higher education can adapt to meet both industry and education needs.
“The new generation of students need career skills to prepare for job opportunities and prioritizing employability and integrating skill-based learning into curricula can be crucial to attracting future students,” noted Rosenbaum.
The webinar will explore the following key themes:
- How focusing initiatives on employability can help secure your institution’s future and attract more students
- How industry micro-credentials can prepare your students with the skills they need to be successful in a competitive job market
- How to leverage Career Academy to help efficiently prepare your students for future job
The free webinar is taking place in three time zones: 10am IST; 10 am BST; 9am PT.
To register for a time that works best for you, click here.
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Title: HPU Welcomes Students to Campus
Date: August 26, 2022
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August is always an exciting time to be at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. It’s when new students arrive on campus to move into their residences and take part in a host of activities during orientation week. Visiting students and transfer students join first-year students in meeting HPU faculty and staff members and fellow HPU students to take part in events and activities before the first day of instruction on August 29.
Orientation week started bright-and-early on August 24, with a festive move-in day at Aloha Tower Marketplace, Hawaii Loa Campus, and Waikiki Vista. Students arrived ready to begin college life, unpacking their suitcases and meeting new roommates and future life-long friends. HPU faculty, staff, and student orientation leaders were on-hand throughout the day greeting students and family members, helping students move in and introducing them to their HPU ʻohana.
A bright afternoon turned quickly into a serene evening. The candle lighting ceremony began at Aloha Tower Marketplace and first-year students and their families, joined by HPU President John Gotanda and Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer Walsh, Ph.D., participated in the beloved HPU tradition of lighting candles and participating in the recitation of the new-student pledge that signifies the beginning of their HPU careers. To signify HPU’s commitment to the new students President Gotanda recited the University pledge.
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Throughout orientation week, students, parents and family participated in engaging group activities and breakout sessions specifically designed to inform and answer questions that parents and students may have regarding academic support and student resources, including mastering the transition into college life. Students were also educated on how to thrive with a positive mindset, and how members of the HPU ‘ohana live and learn and interact with others, embracing the Hawaiian values of aloha, pono, and kuleana.
All HPU students will have the chance to get involved in the diverse campus life activities while studying at HPU. Opportunities include student government association, campus activities board, registered student organizations, and performing arts.
Wrapping up the week-long flurry of activities were educational off-campus excursions where students were taken to either Bishop Museum, ʻIolani Palace, Queen Emma Summer Palace, Hawaiʻi Museum of Art, or HPU’s Makapuʻu Campus.
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It is certainly an exciting time to be a student at HPU. New friends to be made, new experiences to be had, deserved degrees to be earned, all in the four-year journey of life at HPU. Welcome to your new home, and let’s go Sharks!
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Title: The Golden Apple Awards Go To...
Date: August 22, 2022
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The Scholarship and Learning Resources Committee of the Faculty Assembly presented the 2021 Golden Apple Awards at the Tuesday, August 16, 2022, fall kick-off meeting hosted by Provost Jennifer Walsh, Ph.D. The Awards recognize and commend colleagues’ contributions toward advancing teaching, scholarship, and service to the University.
The Award recipients were nominated by faculty, staff, and students. This year, the Golden Apple Awards went to:
Excellence in Scholarship
Assistant Professor Andrea Malji, Ph.D.
Andrea Malji has had an unparalleled level of academic output among HPU faculty over the past year. In 2021 alone, she published six scholarly articles in top rated academic journals in addition to a monograph entitled, Religious Nationalism in Contemporary South Asia that Cambridge University Press Elements will publish later this year.
Most scholars struggle to publish one or two articles every few years, so this is a remarkable achievement. Malji also co-authored an article in the Washington Post that dealt with the Red Hill fuel leak on Oahu, which is a great example of Malji’s public scholarship. Finally, in 2022, Malji was also awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in India.
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Innovative Graduate Program and Curriculum Design
Assistant Professor Ghazwan Hassna, Ph.D.
Ghazwan Hassna serves as the program chair for the Master of Science in Business Analytics and Information Security (MSBAIS). The nominator was impressed by the amount of innovation and creativity that Hassna brought to the graduate programs and curriculum design at the College of Business. Since joining the faculty at HPU in 2017, Hassna deserves credit for the instrumental transformation of the graduate programs and curriculum at the College of Business through leading several initiatives.
Hassna created the new Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics GCBA. This certificate was creatively established and linked to the MSBAIS program so that the College of Business can serve different segments of students without the need to schedule more sessions. Hassna not only worked on modernizing the graduate MSBAIS program and created the GCBA, but he also worked on updating the underlying graduate courses. He built IS6281 Data Mining for Big Data Analytics from scratch, while radically revamping IS6041 Business Analytics for Big Data Revolution & IS6006 Information Systems Management.
Hassna innovatively aligned his graduate programs and underlying courses with the most reputable professional certificates from the industry to increase the employability of his students. He is an extraordinary member of our faculty who has built a fine record of achievement and continually strives to bring the latest innovation to the graduate programs and curriculum design at the College of Business.
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Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching by a Full-Time Faculty Member
Associate Professor Peter Britos, Ph.D.
Peter Britos is an extremely experienced and talented teacher in many fields, including cinematography, critical studies, producing, directing, illustration, painting, photography, and screenwriting. He has taught and mentored thousands of students and worked on thousands of student short films and scripts since the 1990s. Britos is also a transdisciplinary artist and academic, engaged in original creative production and scholarship.
Over the past two years of the pandemic, Britos has taught over 20 courses, at a rate of approximately six classes per semester. He has also advised most of the Cinematic Multimedia Arts baccalaureate students. Britos has built the HPU Cinematic Multimedia Arts Program from the ground-up and has authored most of its syllabi.
Britos is an excellent advisor and mentor who listens to students and offers sage advice. He has helped students create various sorts of digital narratives, including short films, music videos, and animation films.
Under Britos’ tutelage students have gained internships and employment on multiple feature films, television series, commercials, PSAs, and other local, national, and international level productions. They have also gained access and experience on independent feature film, and other projects, including his own, which Britos uses as a laboratory and creative and critical workspace for his students. For some students, such experiences will be the only time they ever work on a feature film, documentary, or television show; for others it is the start of a robust engagement in the creative media, information technology, and entertainment industries.
Britos is a kind and caring person and professor. He genuinely cares about each
student, understands where they excel, and does everything he can to encourage and support them to succeed in their areas of interest.
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Excellence in Mentoring
Kelsie Okamura, Ph.D.
Kelsie Okamura is a leader in the community of public mental health implementation of evidence-based practice. Her work with the Hawai‘i State Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division has increased awareness and led to implementation of best practices around Hawai‘i. Bringing this expertise to HPU, Okamura set up the BRIDGE Research Lab with the goal to improve the delivery of mental health evidence-based practice in community settings. This not only has benefitted the students – graduate and undergraduate – involved in the lab by gaining meaningful research experience and providing some students with grant funded research assistantships, but also for the larger local population here in Hawai‘i for whom the research benefits.
In the brief amount of time at HPU, Okamura played an active role in mentoring numerous undergraduate and graduate students in social and behavioral research. She has served as the primary mentor to nearly a dozen HPU students as part of her BRIDGE Lab, which is focused on building dissemination and implementation research to support the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based interventions. Due in part to the outstanding research infrastructure of the Lab, some of her students have received competitive funding through the Hawai‘i Pacific University Undergraduate Infrastructure Student Research Center (HUI SRC) to further their own research. Okamura leads meaningful discussions in the classroom; she is fair in her assessments/grading, and values constructive feedback from anyone willing to share, encouraging any improvement that students may have. Her teaching methods point students in the right direction for self-learning without spoon feeding information. She teaches how to learn and not just what to learn. She has gone above and beyond her scope of necessity by miles. There is no one better suited to exemplify what “Excellence in Mentoring” means.
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Exceptional Service to the University by a Faculty Member
Bryan Gibson, Ph.D.
Faculty Senate Chair Bryan Gibson chaired multiple shared governance committees, including the Faculty Assembly, Senate, and the CFO-Faculty Working Group. He played a pivotal role in working with the administration to advocate for faculty and their concerns about the COVID Delta and Omicron waves that hit the island just as classes were returning from break. In particular, he decided to change the Faculty Assembly to split modality in fall and online in winter terms. More recently, he led a team of faculty to rewrite the University’s guiding documents, established a senate subcommittee to investigate how to increase the representation of Native Hawaiians, advocated for a more inclusive budgetary process, and worked with the senior administration to conduct a salary study.
Gibson also served as the Faculty Advisor for the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society. His role on the Faculty Senate Chair was an enormous amount of work that required diplomatic skills to act as a liaison between the faculty and administration.
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Distinguished Teaching by an Adjunct Faculty Member
Jessica Garlock, MSW
Jessica Garlock has a wealth of knowledge about the world, with connections around the globe. She has the positive characteristics needed to empower students, colleagues, and friends.
Garlock has an educational approach that is holistic, innovative, and creative. She is on the cutting edge of social work education. Social work is more than a profession to her. Garlock believes in social justice, dignity, the worth of the person, the importance of human relationships, and integrity. She exemplifies competence and creates learning opportunities for students to develop their skills in social work services, all of which are critical in the social work profession. She lives with those core values and continues professional relationships with former students as colleagues. Garlock’s students often comment that she impacts them because she encourages them to have authenticity, diverse perspectives, and passion.
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Title: HPU Professor of History Gives Presentation at Washington Place
Date: August 02, 2022
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HPU Professor of History Douglas Askman, Ph.D., gave a presentation on July 16 at Washington Place entitled "Washington Place: Hawai‘i’s Historic Governor’s Mansion in a National Context." First Lady of the State of Hawai‘i Dawn Amano-Ige hosted the event and delivered opening remarks. Guests heard Askman and historic architect Katie Stephens speak, learning about the construction of Washington Place and its evolution over the years. In advance of the formal program, guests had the opportunity to take a self-guided tour of Washington Place.
Pictured from left to right: Travis Hancock, curator of Washington Place; Katie Stephens, an architect from Architects Hawai‘i; Douglas Askman, Ph.D., HPU history professor; First Lady Dawn Amano-Ige.
July
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Title: HPU Professor Authors Article on Big Data and Analytics
Date: July 20, 2022
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HPU Assistant Professor of Information Systems Ghazwan Hassna, Ph.D., recently authored a research article in the journal Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education entitled Big Data and Analytics to transform higher education: a value chain perspective.
“BD&A can help institutions of higher education to thoroughly examine their newly emerging challenges, explore and identify new ways to address them, and predict future paths for growth and success,” said Hassna. “However, since BD&A is still an emerging phenomenon in higher education, there is limited knowledge about its transformative potential in creating value and gaining a competitive advantage.”
To bridge this gap, Hassna demonstrates how early adopters utilized the potential of BG&A to transform several primary value-creating activities along the high education value chain. The article demonstrates (with evidence collected from real-life examples) how BD&A can improve admission, teaching, marketing and sales, student advising, and alumni relationship management. The article also highlights the concerns associated with utilizing BD&A in higher education and calls for action to be taken by the higher education community to define ethical practices and responsible uses for BD&A in higher education.
While contributing to the academic literature on BD&A in higher education, Hassna’s work provides insightful implications for higher education leaders, administrators, and senior managers who are involved in setting the strategic directions of their institutions.
Hassna serves currently as the program chair of business analytics and information security at the HPU College of Business, and as the chair of the faculty senate and assembly at the university. He earned his Ph.D. in information systems from the College of Business of City University of Hong Kong, and he received his M.Sc. in management and information systems from the University of Manchester. Prior to joining academia, Hassna had more than 10 years of experience in formulating, planning, and managing large scale IT-enabled change initiatives. He worked in different geographies and for/with top international organizations and governmental agencies. Hassna is currently interested in the research areas of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence strategies and applications, blockchain strategies and applications, digital transformation, crowdfunding and internet finance, and smart governments.
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Title: HPU Arts Instructor Named Executive Director of Honolulu Printmakers
Date: July 19, 2022
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Denise Karabinus, adjunct Arts faculty in HPU’s College of Professional Studies (CPS), leads the Honolulu Printmakers, an over 90-year-old nonprofit organization, as its executive director, effective July 1, 2022.
Karabinus currently teaches Sustainable Art and Design and Introduction to Art. She has been with the university since 2015, teaching courses as an adjunct faculty.
“I enjoy working with the CPS veteran student population,” Karabinus said. “Veterans and their families come from diverse backgrounds and bring unique life experiences to the classroom. Our lively conversations about living abroad bring together real-world perspectives and ideas from across the globe to our Sustainable Art and Design course.”
Karabinus earned a BFA with Honors from Maine College of Art & Design and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Karabinus is pictured in front of her artwork titled Tear Mandala- Ocean Sway at her exhibition called Paper Processes at First Hawaiian Center presented by Honolulu Museum of Art. Photo by Shuzo Uemoto, 2017, courtesy of Honolulu Museum of Art.
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Title: HPU Welcomes Blue Coast Jazz on July 16
Date: July 05, 2022
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The 300th Army Band, southern California’s only Army Reserve Band, is a 40-member ensemble and is a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Reserve and the 63rd Regional Support Command.
Under the direction of CW3 Jeff Smith, the band travels coast-to-coast performing in a wide variety of settings, including military ceremonies, formal public concerts, school assemblies, educational outreach programs, festivals, and radio and television appearances.
The mission of the 300th is to foster the support of the American people for members of the Armed Forces, support diplomatic efforts around the world, and to instill in our Soldiers the will to fight and win.
The concert begins at 6:00pm to 7:00pm at the Aloha Tower Marketplace stage on Saturday, July 16. The concert is free and open to the public.
May
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Title: Wipawee Promprasit Named a Graduate Valedictory Speaker
Date: May 03, 2022
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Wipawee Promprasit (Master of Science in Business Analytics and Information Security ‘22) will represent the graduate students of the Spring Class of 2022 at the Saturday, May 7, afternoon graduation ceremony. Promprasit exemplifies the world-ready HPU graduate in many ways. Born and raised in Thailand, Promprasit has also earned a master’s degree in the UK, and she has worked professionally alongside executive management in multinational corporations based in Thailand, Australia, and the UK. She broadened her HPU experience with project-based learning with international businesses in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. Working collaboratively with project partners and classmates, Promprasit gained a breadth of knowledge in breakthrough technologies together with interdisciplinary aspects relating to these technologies. At HPU, she has completed her degree on the Thomas Vincent Scholarship, and has studied numerous areas, including big data and analytics, information security and forensics, and data management and privacy. She has a passion for technology and research, with a keen interest in disruptive technologies. Following graduation, she would like to pursue a career in Informatics, combining her background in business with technology to transform data into solutions, while safeguarding information security.
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Title: Cidney Hopkins Named an Undergraduate Valedictory Speaker
Date: May 03, 2022
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Cidney Hopkins (Bachelor of Arts in International Studies ‘22) will represent the undergraduates of the Spring Class of 2022 at the Saturday, May 7, afternoon graduation ceremony as the valedictory speaker. Hopkins, of Knoxville, Tennessee, embodies the HPU value of aloha by giving back to the HPU ‘ohana as much as she receives, according to her professors. She took on several leadership roles in the Student Government Association and was named Senator of the Year before taking on the role of Student Body President. In these roles, she has planned campus events in areas such as current affairs and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She completed two internships: one, a highly competitive opportunity with the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense; the other with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center. On campus, Hopkins was a research assistant to Dr. Andrea Malji, working on a project about climate refugees in Bangladesh and Myanmar, for which she constructed advanced maps detailing climate risks and refugee flows within Bangladesh and across its borders. Hopkins was included as a co-author of the project’s soon-to-be-published journal article. She was also a research assistant for Dr. Regina Ostergaard-Klem, working on the Genuine Progress Indicator for the State of Hawai‘i.
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Title: Alexxus Hi‘ipoi Ho Named a Graduate Valedictory Speaker
Date: May 03, 2022
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Alexxus Hi‘ipoi Ho (Master of Social Work ‘22) will represent the graduate students of the Spring Class of 2022 at the Saturday, May 7, morning graduation ceremony. Born and raised in Waimanalo, O‘ahu, Ho is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Kapalama, and Southern Utah University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Family Life and Human Development. She is regarded by her Social Work faculty in the College of Health and Society as an emerging leader and champion for her community. Previously, Ho was a community outreach specialist with the Partners in Development Foundation, serving young Native Hawaiian children and families. She is currently a resource specialist with the Lili‘uokalani Trust, continuing to serve Native Hawaiian individuals, families, and group in a variety of areas. Her active service to social work and her academic achievements earned her membership in the Phi Alpha Honor Society. She has completed the three-year Master of Social Work program not only with a 4.0-grade point average but as a successful mother of two boys, Lucas and Leelan. Ho has a strong desire to help the Native Hawaiian community thrive and plans to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to do so.
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Title: Paige Ahladianakis Named an Undergraduate Valedictory Speaker
Date: May 03, 2022
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Paige Ahladianakis (Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering ‘22) will represent the undergraduates of the Spring Class of 2022 at the Saturday, May 7, morning graduation ceremony as the valedictory speaker. Ahladianakis, of Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, completes her degree at Hawai‘i Pacific University after having transferred from the Florida Institute of Technology. Her love of animals guided her to the medical field. Her hope is to work with technologies that assist the creatures who cannot fully tell us themselves how we can help them. She has worked in veterinary settings and as a zookeeper intern at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida. While an HPU student, she has served as a technician in a private laboratory, conducted research in the cellular laboratory with Professor Chris Capaldo, and volunteered at Wild Bird Rehab Haven. Ahladianakis is described by her faculty as an exemplary student who regularly assists her fellow Engineering students.
April
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Title: UPDATE: Lt. Gov. Candidate Forum Postponed Due to Participants’ Schedules
Date: April 22, 2022
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UPDATE: Several Lt. Governor candidates are not available on Friday, April 29, for various reasons. The candidate forum will hopefully be rescheduled to a later date when candidates are available. Updates will be provided when possible.
HPU’s College of Liberal Arts will host a candidate forum for the Hawai'i Lieutenant Governor race. The event will be held at Aloha Tower Marketplace.
The Lieutenant Governor’s forum is scheduled for Friday, April 29, at 5:30 pm to 7:00pm, in Multipurpose Room 3. Invitations were extended to all announced candidates. The campaigns of Keith Amemiya, Ikaika Anderson, Tae Kim, Sherry Menor-McNamara and Jill Tokuda have accepted invitations to attend.
HPU Professor John Hart, Ph.D., will serve as moderator. Hart, a veteran political observer, has moderated many political candidate forums hosted at HPU and in the community. He has been on the HPU faculty since 1999.
"We envision the forum as a way for the candidates to help introduce themselves to the state’s voters and to provide them with as much information as possible in making their choices before the August 13 primary election,” said Hart.
The forum will feature opening and closing statements from each candidate, with a question-and-answer period in between the statements. Each candidate will be asked the same question by the moderator, after which each candidate can ask another candidate a question directly. This will be done for several rounds as time permits. Following the question-and-answer period, each candidate will give a closing statement. No questions will be taken from the audience.
"Hopefully, this format will encourage more of a discussion between the candidates rather than with the moderator," Hart noted.
The event is open to the public and media.
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Title: The 2022 Bauer, Optiz, and Vaughan Writing Award Winners Announced
Date: April 05, 2022
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Congratulations to the following HPU students! The winners were chosen by award-winning author Allison Amend.
Winner of the Mark David Bauer Award for Fiction:
“He Who Eats Sand” by Holly Tarver
Comments from Allison Amend: “He Who Eats Sand” reminds us that judgment is a
matter of perspective, and that putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes (even if that
someone is a deep-sea sand monster) can help us view our own world more clearly.
Runners up:
“Hazelnut” by Brigid O'Brien, “How to Ride a Bike Without the Support Wheels” by
Minken Angelica Austad
Winner of the Andrew Opitz Award for Nonfiction:
“Those Who Walk Barefoot” by Janelle Ann Mateo
Comments from Allison Amend: “Those Who Walk Barefoot” traces with fierce pride the
evolution of the author’s understanding of their Filipino American heritage in a way that
is both personal and universal.
Runners up:
“On Depression” by Aspen Pawlowski, “Girl Who Cried Monkey” by Rozzy Mullen
Winner of the James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry:
“Phantom Promise” by Janelle Ann Mateo
Comments from Allison Amend: “Phantom Promise” is a lovely elegy to youthful love,
with the moon as a vivid and insistent reminder of the permanence of what we pledge.
Runners up:“The Sky Is” by Kristina Bechthold, “My Body Tells My Story” by Alana
Espinosa
Allison Amend, a Chicago native, graduated from Stanford
University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of
the IPPY award-winning short story collection Things That Pass
for Love and the novels A Nearly Perfect Copy and Stations West,
which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish
Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award. Her most recent book,
Enchanted Islands, was on the longlist for the International Dublin
Award. Amend teaches creative writing at Lehman College, CUNY,
in New York City, where she has visited every museum, all 115 of
them.
Pictured from left to right; Holly Tarver and Janelle Ann Mateo
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Title: The 2022 HPU Short Script Contest Winners Announced
Date: April 05, 2022
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Congratulations to the following HPU students!
BEST ADAPTED SCRIPTS
1ST Place: Angeleyh Pasco for Phased (based on a dramatic monologue by the author)
A very sophisticated and visually involving presentation of depression. We are impressed with the clarity and purpose of how this moves and sustains interest, even while dwelling on and ruminating through the 15 phases of depression. To be 3rd in the que for the Suicide Help Line is such a great concluding touch, to escape any false or easy hope.
2ND PLACE: Emma Williams for To Seek a Hidden Joy (based on “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf)
An engaging adaptation of Woolf’s Haunted House with thoughtful character development of the ghosts and loving spirits. Through successful dramatic tension and clever dialogue, the explicit theme is neatly woven into a tight and cohesive script.
BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPTS
1ST PLACE: Minken Austad for Beautiful
A thoughtful and provocative story, carefully crafted to share both personal introspection on inner beauty and self-esteem, along with engaging drama and insightful dialogue among hopeful friends. Though we expected the happy ending, it satisfies with rekindled promise.
2ND PLACE: Lara Wuehrl for Tick Tock Tick Tick.
An imaginative narrative, skillfully developed into a clear plotline with keen imagery and tangible dramatic tension; this script is creative and clever, complete with detailed production instruction.
Comments are from the judges, who are either current or former members of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics involved in drama and scriptwriting. This year’s winners were selected from 22 submissions presented to the judges anonymously. The contest is open all HPU students. The contest awards ($808 in scholarships) are provided by the Mark David Bauer Fund. For additional information on the HPU Short Script Contest, contact Professor of English Mark Tjarks at mtjarks@hpu.edu or (808) 566-2445.
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Title: Urmston Publishes MS Thesis Chapter
Date: April 05, 2022
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MSMS graduate Jennifer Urmston (2018 cohort) has published the first chapter of her MS thesis. Urmston worked with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agent Keith Swindle and her HPU advisor David Hyrenbach, Ph.D., analyzing eight years (2012–2019) of observations of road-killed shearwaters along the Kalanianaʻole Highway on Oʻahu to compare mortality before (2012–15) and after (2016–19) a transition in highway lighting from unshielded high-pressure sodium (HPS) to full-cutoff light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights. Altogether, the interaction between moon illumination and wind speed was the most important predictor, suggesting that more shearwaters are grounded during nights with low moon and strong winds. The lack of an increase in mortality after the change from HPS to shielded LED streetlights suggests the new streetlights did not worsen the light pollution impacts on wedge-tailed shearwaters on Southeast Oʻahu.
You can download this open-source paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265832
You can read more about this project here: https://www.pelagicos.net/research_lightpollution.htm
Photo courtesy Pelagicos Lab
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Title: HUI SRC Nurturing Native Hawaiian Scholars
Date: April 05, 2022
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Nurturing and supporting an indigenous scholar is an art and science that embraces the totality of a person in environment. For Catherine Jara, she’s not only a brilliant emerging scholar but a mana wahine, who enjoys paddle boarding, spending time with ‘ohana, kako‘o her community, and hanging out with her two rescue dogs.
Jara is a Social Work major and the first Native Hawaiian student at HPU to be awarded the prestigious HUI SRC Health Research Concept Competition (HRCC) grant! Jara, standing on the shoulders of an extraordinary mentor—Dr. Ngoc Phan and their groundbreaking work on Native Hawaiian identity and well-being and a presentation at the 2022 Western Political Science Association national conference—will focus her research for HRCC on understanding Native Hawaiian identity and well-being in improving mental health outcomes for Native Hawaiian young adults.
Truly honored to represent indigenous peoples, Jara embraces research as a way to give back to her Native Hawaiian community. She stated, “Research is special to me because it’s where I found my voice and gained confidence in my story as a Native Hawaiian….” Through research, she hopes to use a strengths-based approach to empower the Native Hawaiian community to be tellers of their own stories of pride and resilience. As for the future, the sky is no limit, with a trajectory towards graduate school and a career that would position Jara to give back and pay forward.
Jara’s proposed project was reviewed by research experts and approved by the HUI SRC team. She will receive $3,000 in research funds and a $1,000 stipend, and her mentor will receive a $1,000 stipend from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on General Medical Sciences grant #U01GM128435.
Visit https://www.hpu.edu/chs/huisrc/index.html for more information on HUI SRC.
March
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Title: 3C’s for Connecting with Online Audiences
Date: March 29, 2022
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Connecting with our students in the digital space can be challenging. It requires competing with myriad distractions while also creating a welcoming sense of community. Many of the ways we may keep the pulse of the in-person audience don’t translate well to the digital. Following are three tips for connecting with online audiences and creating a sense of shared responsibility for learning.
Chunk the Time
Build in a 10-15 minute break for every 75 minutes of presentation time.
Add in short activities that allow participants to move away from the computer (ex. brainstorming, reading an article, writing an opinion). This activity will help to keep participants focused on learning.
Check for Understanding
Take time to gauge whether your audience is with you. Use formative assessments like questioning, polls, surveys, and exit tickets. There are a host of tools that can be used, such as Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere, Google Forms.
Crowdsource Ideas
Use shared documents to conceptualize or synthesize understandings. You can ask participants to verbally or visually map out ideas in relation to one another. Use tools such as Google Docs, Google Jamboard, Padlet, and Perusall.
Katalin Wargo, Ph.D., is the Director of Online Programs and Academic Partnerships for HPU. For more tips like these, check out the Online Learning and Academic Partnerships instructional resources page!
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Title: Nguyen’s Co-authored Book Chapter Is Now Published
Date: March 15, 2022
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Hanh Nguyen, Ph.D., Professor of Applied Linguistics, has just published a co-authored chapter entitled "Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis" in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics. The book overview reads: "This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors’ role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups. Top scholars from around the world synthesize current and past work, contextualize the central issues, and set the future research agenda on second language variation, including languages studied or taught less commonly. The book will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of SLA, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in the social aspects of language learning in research practice and instruction."
February
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Title: First Look Poster Competition 2022: Open to all students
Date: February 28, 2022
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The Multimedia Programs have announced the 2022 First Look Mixed Media Festival Poster Design Competition. The contest is open to all HPU students. The deadline for submissions is MONDAY, APRIL 11, AT 5 P.M.
Questions on the competition? Contact Associate Professor Pete Britos, Ph.D., pbritos@hpu.edu.
COMPETITION SPECIFICATIONS
• Your Challenge is to create the 2022 First Look poster.
• Create at least two files, one for print, one for the web.
• Print Specs: 22.5X28.5 (includes bleed); 300 dpi
• Web Specs: 22X28; 1000 pixels height; jpg file
• Please provide your image in High-Resolution and Low-Resolution, as well as your original PSD or Illustrator or other file.
• We will accept animated or motion graphics First Look "Posters" or time-based teasers.
• Packages w/ POSTER and TIME-BASED encouraged.
• Electronically Deliver ZIP file to: pbritos@hpu.edu, and wkennelly@hpu.edu
• Or, HAND-DELIVER ALL FILES on Flash Drive to Professors for Upload.
WHAT TO INCLUDE:
• 2022
• A main image/brand
• First Look Mixed Media Festival
• Hawaii Pacific University/HPU
• HPU/Hawaii Pacific University LOGO
• Cinematic Multimedia Arts
• www.hpu.edu
• Curators: Pete Britos, Quest Kennelly
• Sponsors: HPU Multimedia Cinematic Production Club (MMCP), Cinematic Multimedia Arts Program, HPU Department of Arts Communication Languages Media, HPU College of Liberal Arts, Hawaii Media Inc., Sight & Sound Productions, Island Film Group, Black Sand Productions, Hula Girl Productions, Edge City Films, Iodice Media
• Designed by YOUR NAME
• Add whatever else you think works
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Title: Jennifer Lynch Interviewed on Hawai‘i Public Radio
Date: February 18, 2022
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HPU's Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) Co-director Jennifer Lynch, Ph.D., was recently a guest on Hawai‘i Public Radio's The Conversation to discuss Maui's 2018 ban on polystyrene and the impact the ban has had on Hawai‘i beaches.
Lynch was one of the scientists that worked on the study. To listen to the complete interview with Russell Subino on The Conversation click here.
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Title: HUI SRC is Here for You!
Date: February 11, 2022
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Attention all HPU students! HPU’s Undergraduate Infrastructure Student Research Center (HUI SRC) is here, and they are all about entrepreneurship and research. HPU students interested in biomedical research receive mentorship and training.
All HPU students are eligible to join the HUI SRC. You do not need to have a background in science or medicine. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to join the Center.
HUI SRC’s goals are to leverage entrepreneurial research, preparing students for graduate school and linking them into the scientific workforce. The Center was founded by the National Institute of Health and the National Institute on General Medical Sciences.
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Get the chance to earn a grant award up to $3,000 per health-related project! This is a perfect opportunity to begin a thesis or dissertation in higher education prior to attending graduation with your undergraduate degree.
Interested in the award? Learn more about past grant winners Andy Yu and Isabelle Yazel Eiser.
Last fall, HUI SRC held their first-ever mixer, where student officers created the Center’s first Squid Games Mixer at Aloha Tower Marketplace. Students also got to learn from HPU and JABSOM faculty members at a research workshop.
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HUI SRC is led by Halaevalu Vakalahi, Ph.D., Blaize Soakai, Ngoc Phan, Ph.D., Eunjung Lim, Ph.D., Scott Okamoto, Ph.D. and David Horgen, Ph.D. Research opportunities are available, including INBRE IV, UH Cancer Center, and the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine Graduate Certifications.
Click here to learn more about HUI SRC; or email Dean Halaevalu Vakalahi, Ph.D., at hvakalahi@hpu.edu, or Blaize Soakai at bsoakai@hpu.edu.
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Title: HPU Installs Blue Light Emergency Phones on Campuses
Date: February 08, 2022
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HPU is dedicated to maintaining public safety in its parking lots, campuses, parks, and walkways. The University has recently installed two Blue Light Emergency Phones at its Aloha Tower Marketplace campus, with a third emergency phone to be installed soon at Waterfront Plaza. The emergency towers and communication equipment will assist HPU students, faculty, and staff, and campus visitors with emergency communication access. When a student presses the red button, it will immediately call the security operation center and put the student directly in touch with HPU security for assistance.
The Blue Light Emergency Phones are a beacon for public safety and are in operation 24/7 – 365, even in harsh weather conditions. The top-mounted solar power and internal battery provide consistent and reliable operation.
A Blue Light Emergency phone is located at the top left-hand corner of Aloha Tower Marketplace (Irwin Park), directly under the flagpole that faces Ala Moana Boulevard. The second installed phone is located at top-righthand corner of Piers 5 & 6.
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Please see the map for a detailed view of the emergency phone’s locations. The blue square icon represents the location of the phones.
January
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Title: HPU College of Business Dean Co-Authors Paper on Impact of Great Resignation
Date: January 28, 2022
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HPU Dean of the College of Business Mark Rosenbaum, Ph.D., has co-authored an article in the Journal of Global Hospitality and Tourism entitled “Reconsidering services marketing as a discipline.” The article discusses the impact of the Great Resignation on consumers and organizations and considers the possibility that consumers may now accept lower levels of service offerings and performance.
HPU appointed Rosenbaum dean in November 2021. He previously was the dean and professor of marketing with the Graham School of Management at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in marketing from Arizona State University and holds master’s degrees from San Diego State University, New York University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Rosenbaum also serves as co-editor of the Journal of Services Marketing, an associate editor for the Journal of Business Research and the Service Industries Journal, and an editorial board member of several services and travel related journals.
2021
December
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Title: Nguyen's Co-authored Paper Is Published
Date: December 20, 2021
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The co-authored paper of Professor of Applied Linguistics Hanh Nguyen, Ph.D., entitled "'But I want to say I means love you': A child's development of stancetaking in parent-initiated language-focused sequences" published in the journal Research on Children Social Interaction (Equinox). Her paper posted here has implications for second language teaching and is based on a conference presentation in 2018 at the University of Loughborough, UK, supported by HPU's Faculty Development Grant. Pictured is Hanh Nguyen (left) presenting with co-author Minh Nguyen at the International Conference of Conversation Analysis, Loughborough, UK, 2018.
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Title: Iacchei, Hyrenbach, and Former Students Co-Publish a PaperÂ
Date: December 17, 2021
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Natural Science faculty Matthew Iacchei, Ph.D., and David Hyrenbach, Ph.D.,and former students Ilana Nimz (MSMS) and John Baczenas (Marine Biology) and research colleagues had their paper entitled “MetaBARFcoding: DNA‐barcoding of regurgitated prey yields insights into Christmas shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis) foraging ecology at Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll), Hawaiʻi” published in Environmental DNA. Nimz leads the Winged Ambassadors program for the NGO Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge and works as a biologist for Tree Solutions & Environmental Consulting Services.Baczenas is a technician in the Schumer lab at Stanford University.The paper is accessible at the following Wiley Online Library web link.
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Title: Communication Major Awarded Journalism ScholarshipÂ
Date: December 17, 2021
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The Hawaii Filipino Chronicle announced earlier in December Jasmine Sadang as its 2021 Journalism Scholarship recipient. A Communication Studies and Practices major with a concentration in Strategic Communication, Sadang is also minoring in English. Her instructor and faculty advisor AnnMarie Manzulli describes Sadang as a “multi-talented, determined student with a range of skills and ability.” Her Campus, an online magazine and student-run organization, recruited Sadang, an active member of the group, contributing ;her writing talent and demonstrating her commitment to teamwork.
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Title: Hawaiian Properties Supports the HPU College of Business
Date: December 17, 2021
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HPU alumnus Dass Ramadass (far right) '85, President/CEO of Hawaiian Properties Ltd., and Frank Tokioka (far left), Board Member of Hawaiian Properties Ltd., visited campus last month and presented HPU President John Gotanda with a donation. Ramadass continues to support the College of Business (COB) Dean's Fund to ensure that COB students have every opportunity to learn and thrive in Hawai'i's dynamic business community and beyond. Hawaiian Properties’ donation allows the COB to offer special programming, speaking engagements, and project-based experiences to diversify undergraduate learning.
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Title: Fall 2021 Graduation Graduate Valedictory Speaker Announced
Date: December 07, 2021
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Elsa Saskia van Hall (Master of Science in Marine Science ‘21) will represent the graduate students of the Fall Class of 2021 as the valedictory speaker. She will deliver her address at the Saturday, December 11 graduation ceremony.
Growing up in the landlocked mountains of Colorado did not stop van Hall from developing a deep curiosity to study marine species. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology, van Hall worked as the head of the nursery at an oyster farm in Maryland. She then moved to Vietnam, where she taught English and discovered how thoroughly she enjoyed teaching. She enrolled in Hawaiʻi Pacific University’s Master of Science in Marine Science program, where she researched how climate change will impact an ecologically and economically important Hawaiian surgeonfish. Following graduation, van Hall hopes to teach as an adjunct faculty member and obtain a doctorate in Marine Science to further research climate change effects on tropical coral reef ecosystems and pursue marine conservation.
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Title: Fall 2021 Graduation Undergraduate Valedictory Speaker Announced
Date: December 07, 2021
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Nicolle Anne Medak (Bachelor of Arts in International Studies ‘21) will represent the undergraduates of the Fall Class of 2021 as the valedictory speaker. She will deliver her address at the Saturday, December 11 graduation ceremony.
Medak became a delegate of the National Model United Nations team in her first year at Hawaiʻi Pacific University and eventually became the Alumni Relations Officer for the United Nations Club. Over the years, Medak became more involved on campus, working for Dr. Yong Jae Kim on comparative politics as his research assistant and being the Chief of Staff for the Student Government Association. While earning her bachelor’s degree, she earned membership into various honor societies for political science and history, was published in HPU’s Fresh Perspectives Journal, and won the 2021 award for the Best Undergraduate Capstone Project for the International Studies and Political Science Department. Medak also held internships with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and the Department of Homeland Security’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center. After graduation, Medak plans to continue at Hawaiʻi Pacific University to obtain her master’s degree in Diplomacy and Military Studies.
November
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Title: Management Information System Class hosts a Professional Panel
Date: November 30, 2021
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Management Information System Instructor Jamie Champagne’s IS6066 class partnered with the local Project Management Institute Honolulu Hawaii chapter (www.pmihnl.org ) and the International Institute of Business Analysis Hawaii Chapter (www.hawaii.iiba.org ) to host a professional panel on Monday, Nov. 15. The participating business professionals represented various experience levels in multiple industries in Hawaiʻi, providing students the chance to hear about different careers and see different perspectives on jobs, skills, and opportunities emerging in technology and business.
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Title: HPU Center for Marine Debris Research receives Recognition
Date: November 22, 2021
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HPU's Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) Co-director Jennifer Lynch, Ph.D., (pictured right) received a $3,000 donation from the Outrigger Reef Hotel for the CMDR team's tremendous work on researching plastic pollution and its impact on the environment.
Artist and marine scientist Ethan Estess (pictured left) partnered with CMDR and Sustainable Coastlines Hawaiʻi to create a special mural from derelict fishing gear from CMDR's research study. The mural is called "Coming Home," and was recently installed in the lobby of the Outrigger Reef Hotel.
Lynch and Estess attended the Saturday, November 13 event hosted by Outrigger Reef Hotel, unveiling the artwork and celebrating the the reopening of the hotel's Kani Ka Pila Grille and music venue.
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Title: Biology Professor researches Yellowstone's Hydrothermal Fluids
Date: November 09, 2021
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Assistant Professor of Biology Olivia Nigro, Ph.D., co-authored a paper entitled "Sulfur cycling and host-virus interactions in Aquificales-dominated biofilms from Yellowstone's hottest ecosystems" published in October in the journal International Society for Microbial Ecology.
Nigro, a microbial ecologist, collaborated with scientists from Montana State University on this research to better understand the interactions between viruses and microbes that live at up to 160 degrees C. She took the role to help understand the relationships between viruses and microorganisms in the hydrothermal fluids from Yellowstone National Park.
"This study helps us to understand how life functions in extreme environments, at the limits of where life can exist, as well as helps us to understand how life formed," Nigro said. “I am interested in terrestrial geothermal systems as they are analogous to their deep sea counter-parts, but a lot easier to access. I am also interested in what this means in terms of alternative energy sources, as well as the origin of life questions.”
At Hawai'i Pacific University, Nigro teaches General Biology, Geological Oceanography, and General Oceanography and is the Master of Science in Marine Science program director. She engages in research with students, including Master of Science in Marine Science student Cherise Spotkaeff and Isabelle Yazel Eiser (Biochemistry '21). Spotkaeff had the opportunity to participate with Nigro on a 2019 research expedition on the Research Vessel Atlantis, studying an underwater volcanic mountain range along the coast of Washington and Oregon. Nigro mentors Yazel Eiser, who received a 2021 grant from the HPU Undergraduate Infrastructure Student Research Center to conduct novel research on the deadly bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, found in brackish water and is growing widely in Hawai'i.
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Title: HPU announces new Fall Concert at Aloha Tower Marketplace
Date: November 09, 2021
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HPU’s Department of Arts, Communication, Languages and Media and the College of Liberal Arts is proud to announce a return to live music at the university. HPU’s fall concert, “Pathways to Joy: The Music of Healing and Humor,” will be held in the Sunset Ballroom at Aloha Tower Marketplace on Friday, November 19, at 7:30pm.
The concert will also be live streamed on Facebook through “Arts at HPU.”
The concert features the students of the International Vocal Ensemble and the Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Teresa McCreary and Dr. Alec Schumacker. The program includes works by Haydn, P.D.Q Bach, Helen Parker and HPU’s Alec Schumacker.
To reserve a seat click on this link.
In alignment with health and safety practices, numbers of in-person attendees are limited and are required to show proof of COVID vaccination at the door (no negative tests are permitted).
October
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Title: Men's Basketball Team engages in Community Service
Date: October 26, 2021
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The Hawai‘i Pacific University Men’s Basketball team visited Ka Papa Lo‘i o Punalu‘u on Saturday, Oct. 9, for a community service activity. The team members were able to assist the farmers with weeding lo‘i kalo (taro field) to prepare it for planting and helping to huki kalo (harvest taro) for food and replanting. The team members acquired a unique cultural perspective and gained valuable life and team lessons to take with them as they gear up for the upcoming 2021-2022 basketball season.
“This was a terrific experience for our student athletes to gain understanding about the culture of Hawai‘i and the importance of sustainability,” Head Men’s Basketball Coach Darren Vorderbruegge said. “Coach Nakanishi is from Hawai‘i and set up this opportunity to blend our local players with our mainland and international team members. They all learned the meaning of ‘malama ‘aina’ and gained an appreciation for their island.”
The HPU Men’s Basketball team members and coaching staff extend mahalo nui to the kumu (teachers) of Ka Papa Lo‘i o Punalu‘u and the Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, who took the time to impart their mana‘o (knowledge) to the HPU Sharks.
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Title: HPU Student wins First Prize at National POSEA Conference
Date: October 20, 2021
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Cherise Spotkaeff, a Master of Science in Marine Science (MSMS) student at HPU, took home first prize in a national Marine Science conference centralized around People of Color.
The POSea 2021 Conference is a virtual national conference that focuses on Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) scientists from different parts of the world. The joint conference took place from Oct. 1 to 3. Topics discussed were focused on conservation efforts and challenges among scientists between different ethnic minority groups.
“I think it’s important to remember where you come from and to take care of your place. But, also remember that there’s the rest of the world out there,” Spotkaeff said. “Everyone’s contribution to science is valid.”
Spotkaeff placed first in the Outstanding Presentation category for her work on the Research Vessel Atlantis in 2019, along with previously recorded expeditions. These expeditions cruised the Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank, an underwater volcanic mountain range along the coast of Washington and Oregon. Spotkaeff was responsible for filtering out water and collecting data samples, which she says was a rewarding yet tremendous effort.
“The cruise was really fun. It was interesting in the fact that I’ve never done that before, and it was also a huge learning curve,” Spotkaeff said. “It also taught you that things can really go sideways.”
In response to winning first prize, Spotkaeff says she was shocked, but overall was proud to have represented herself as a Native Hawaiian amongst BIPOC scientists.
“It makes me feel more valid and I worked really hard,” Spotkaeff said. “It’s just representing who I am and my heritage.”
Growing up in Kalihi, Spotkaeff attended Kamehameha Schools and took an interest in their Honors Science Research program. She attended HPU and earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Marine Biology. Ultimately, Olivia Nigro, Ph.D., had convinced her to pursue the MSMS program and this project.
“If you do a master’s project, you know that you have to be very independent and figure out all your problems. But there’s a point when you get stuck especially with something very niche,” Spotkaeff said. “She’s a tremendous help.”
Currently, Spotkaeff is interested in marine viral ecology and studies viruses in extreme environments. Her graduate thesis focuses on the global scaled comparison of viruses in the oceanic basement.
With this new accomplishment, Spotkaeff hopes that her gained confidence can carry over as she hopes to defend her thesis later this fall.
To learn more about HPU’s MSMS program, click here.
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Title: HPU Professor helps author research paper on Seabirds
Date: October 13, 2021
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HPU Professor David Hyrenbach, Ph.D., helped author a peer-reviewed paper entitled, "Plastic additives and legacy persistent organic pollutants in the preen gland oil of seabirds sampled across the globe" in the journal Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry (J-Stage).
The paper, published on October 11, 2021, states, "Plastic pollution, and its associated impacts on marine fauna due to chemical contamination, is an area of growing global concern. We analyzed 145 preen gland oil samples from 32 seabird species belonging to 8 families with different foraging habits and life history strategies from around the world for plastic additives and legacy persistent organic pollutants."
J-Stage states that Hyrenbach was part of an international team from 18 institutions in seven countries that found up to 52% of seabirds not only ate plastic, but also accumulated the plastic’s chemical components in their bodies.
To read the complete peer-reviewed paper click here.
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Title: HPU presents Pride Week
Date: October 09, 2021
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HPU's Campus Activities Board presents Pride Week at Aloha Tower Marketplace starting October 9 to October 16. Various events have been scheduled, both in-person and virtually.
Event Schedule:
OCTOBER 9 - Tie-Dye Pride
OCTOBER 11 - Speakout: Coming Out Stories
OCTOBER 12 - Safezone Training: Day 1
OCTOBER 14 - Safezone Training: Day 2
OCTOBER 15 - To Be Announced
OCTOBER 16 - Honolulu Pride (Virtual)
For more information about each day, be sure to check your HPU emails. If you have any questions email the Campus Activities Board at cab@my.hpu.edu.
September
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Title: Professor completes 2021 Guahan Survey with Undergraduate Researcher
Date: September 21, 2021
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During the summer, Ngoc T. Phan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, traveled to Guam to recruit and complete the 2021 Guahan Study (guamstudy.org). To date, this is the largest public opinion dataset of residents living in Guam, 18+, who self-identify as Chamorro. The survey recruited over 1,100 respondents and asked respondents about their identity and what they envision for the future.
Her research team included HPU sophomore student Nikki Aubree San Agustin, a Computer Science student. San Agustin served as a team lead on the research project.She is passionate about advocating for indigenous rights and embracing her cultural heritage.
San Agustin says, "I care about this project because I am a young CHamoru woman who cares about her land, people, and culture. This project does what I believe in personally; amplifying CHamoru voices, opinions, and concerns. I am invested in this because I believe the data collected from this project and the results will benefit the CHamoru people. I also want to use this project as a stepping stone into collecting data in the future. I have adopted Dr. Phan’s mindset of, “Data is power. Power to the people.” I want to be able to spread that mindset around, starting with this project."
Professor Phan is always looking for undergraduate research assistants to work in her Behavioral Research Lab. If you are interested, please email her at ntphan@hpu.edu for research opportunities.
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Title: Experiencing Simulation in Virtual Reality
Date: September 17, 2021
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In celebration of Global Healthcare Simulation Week, September 13 through 19, the College of Health and Society (CHS) students, faculty, and staff participated in various activities to advance educational opportunities and awareness of healthcare simulation.
One of the popular activities of the week included the chance for CHS students to test their skills using virtual reality goggles to experience medical training scenarios. CHS student Nicholas Enrico takes part in a medical scenario training session with the virtual reality goggles.
“If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the need for more simulation experiences in the avenue for training, not just nursing students but also other members of the interprofessional healthcare team,” Kristine Slagle, DNP, RN, simulation educator and nursing professor.
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Title: The Latest Addition to the Student Union
Date: September 16, 2021
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Students, have you visited Sharky's Cove at Aloha Tower Marketplace yet? Come down and check out the new digital jukebox, a modern take on a classic Wurlitzer, and take in some tunes. A soda bar and foosball, pool, and ping pong tables are also available for students to enjoy.
Opened at the start of the fall 2021 academic term, Sharky's Cove is the perfect ocean-front spot for HPU students to socialize, relax, have a snack, or catch up on studying.
August
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Title: Asia Pacific Management Survey Review publishes the research of Tolga Ulusemre, Ph.D.
Date: August 31, 2021
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HPU Assistant Professor of Management and Management Program Chair Tolga Ulusemre, Ph.D., had his article entitled “Making sense of business-to-government guanxi amidst the northern-southern and rural-urban divides in China: The institutional vs. the cultural perspective” accepted for publication by APMR.
The article focuses on a study that examines, "Chinese mangers' ethical evaluations of business-to-government guanxi in three regions of China."
Prior to the joining HPU, Ulusemre taught at Georgia Southern University and the University of South Carolina.
To read Ulusemre's complete article click here.
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Title: HPU Student on winning US Pitch Competition Team
Date: August 30, 2021
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Hawai‘i Pacific University senior business major with a concentration in finance and economics Quynh Bach participated in the 2021 U.S. Enactus Summer Leadership Series. Her team took 2nd place in the series' pitch competition for the project entitled "UNLOCKWORK Online Program: A Solution for Attracting Workers to a Slowing Labor Market." (Pictured, clockwise: Quynh Bach, Dudu Kakhu, Sophie Shulman).
Bach learned of this five-week immersive program sponsored by KPMG corporation with support from Robert Half corporation from her economics professor and HPU Enactus club advisor Ken Schoolland.
Of the Enactus national summer program, Bach said working with her fellow team members Dudu Kakhu of Andrews University in Michigan, and Sophie Shulman of Carthage College in Wisconsin, in different time zones improved her time management skills. Bach, who is originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, spent the summer in Hawai‘i. And the team's KPMG mentor was in Connecticut.
While it may go without saying, Bach honed her skills as a team player through this program: the team members used a Google doc to share their brainstorming ideas, set project deadlines, and created a table with problems and solutions. Bach, Kakhu, and Shulman would convene for a team meeting on Fridays.
Equipped with new personal and project development skills through her participation in the Enactus leadership institute, Bach said, "The most important thing I learned from this program is how to be a good team player. You have to be a perfect team player before you can lead somebody else."
In addition to working on their project pitch, Bach and her fellow program participants had the opportunity to learn through training and development modules provided by KPMG and Robert Half. "Expert Insights on Managing a Culturally Diverse Team," "Developing an Effective Business Case," and "Expert Insights on Setting and Managing Priorities" were among the educational modules offered to the participants.
Bach continues to stay connected with Kakhu and Shulman through LinkedIn, and according to Bach, that is a significant plus of participating in the summer leadership institute.
"It is a chance for you to meet other people and learn from them," Bach reflected.
Featured below is a video of Bach, Kakhu, and Shulman’s project pitch.
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Title: The History of the Bishop Bank Building
Date: August 25, 2021
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Did you know that the oldest bank in Hawai‘i was once located behind Pioneer Plaza?
Located at 65 Merchant Street across from Pioneer Plaza is the old Bishop Bank Building. Although the date over the entrance is “1877,” the structure was not occupied until 1878. The building was designed by Thomas J. Baker, who was also the first architect of ‘Iolani Palace. Bishop Bank, which was founded in 1858 (now First Hawaiian Bank) is the oldest bank in Hawai‘i. The headquarters of Bishop Bank resided in this building until 1925.
The structure was renovated in 2010 and is now occupied by a charitable trust and scholarship fund named after Harriet Bouslog. Bouslog was a prominent labor and civil rights lawyer in Hawai‘i in the decades after World War II.
Story and photo by HPU history professor Douglas Askman, Ph.D.
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Title: Students Enjoy New Student Union
Date: August 23, 2021
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HPU announced its new student union called Sharky’s Cove at Aloha Tower Marketplace. The student union is open to all students and features a soda bar, foosball and ping pong tables, and a digital jukebox.
“The new student union represents HPU’s commitment to a student-centered experience,” said HPU President John Gotanda. “Students will enjoy a fun and welcoming ocean-front space where they can socialize with friends, relax, have a snack, or catch up on studying.
Sharky’s Cove plans to host a series of small concerts that will feature some of Hawai’i’s top local musicians. The union’s furniture has been socially distanced and there will be reduced capacity. Proof of vaccination, or a negative covid test, is required for entry.
The student union opened at the start of the fall 2021 academic term. Its location is panoramic and ideal, located right at the Aloha Tower waterfront facing the harbor and an endless blue sea.