Hanakahi“News of People Working Together”

Ka Lono

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT HILO VOLUME 16, NO. 8, APRIL 2001

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SPOTLIGHTUH Hilo astronomyprofessor awarded time onSubaru Telescope;students assist withresearchby Susan Collins

Michael West, associate professor of astronomyat UH Hilo, was recently granted time on thebrand new, world-class Subaru Telescope atopMauna Kea.

This is no small feat. Since Subaru came on linein 2000, the amount of requests for observing timehas been six times the available nights. Subaru,along with all telescopes atop Mauna Kea, is re-quired to give 15 percent of observing time to UHastronomers, and this time is won through a com-

petitive selection process. For West to be awarded time indicates hisresearch proposal ranked as one of the top projects submitted, worthy ofthe estimated $3 per second cost of a 12-hour observing run.

But one would never know the personal significance of this achieve-ment when talking to the astronomer. For West, one of the best thingsabout this award is being able to share it with his students.

“I enjoy bringing UH Hilo astronomy majors with me on myobserving runs,” said West. “They can get involved with astronomyresearch from the collection of the first photon, and then assist later withanalyzing the data. Students are tremendously excited with this oppor-tunity; this hands-on experience with the very best telescopes in theworld is rarely offered to undergraduates. It gives our UH Hilo as-tronomy students a great advantage when applying for graduate schoolor for astronomy-related jobs.”

#1 priority for new Director ofInstitutional Research: WASCaccreditation report

by Susan Collins

Lynne Stamoulis has ar-rived at her new job nonetoo soon as Director of In-stitutional Research for UHHilo. The University’s self-study report for WesternAssociation of Schools andColleges (WASC) accredi-tation is due this summer,and Stamoulis’ expertise in

quantitative and qualitative research techniques,educational marketing research, and data analy-sis makes her an invaluable resource for the Self-Study Steering Committee.

“My first priority is the accreditation reportcoming up in July,” said Stamoulis. “I’ll be work-ing on several surveys: the entering freshmensurvey; the graduating student survey; and thealumni survey where I’ll be looking at alumniwho graduated from Spring ’95 to Spring 2000.I’ll be working with the marketing department tocollect data on student outcome, a movementthat WASC is emphasizing for every school in thedivision.”

In addition to gathering new data, Stamouliswill also be working to track information that isalready in place, such as in the areas of retentionand marketing. Specifically, she will be looking

Lynne Stamoulis

Michael West

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Accompanying West on the night of February 28 wereAstronomy majors Tamaka Miyake and Alexandre Bouquin.These two lucky students were the first UH Hilo under-graduates to be part of an observing run at Subaru. Miyakeis a transfer student from Japan, and Bouquin holds dualcitizenship with Japan and France. Both came to UH Hilobecause of the University’s astronomy program.

"I really want to get an astronomy Ph.D., so I wanted totransfer to a school that had a good undergraduate as-tronomy program to prepare me," said Miyake. "This trip toSubaru was a good experience for me, to see and learn whatan astronomer does."

Generally speaking, West’s astronomical research fo-cuses on galaxy formation and the large-scale structure of theuniverse. His workis presently sup-ported by threegrants: one in theamount of $58,578from the NationalScience Foundation(NSF), and twogrants totaling$37,002 fundedthrough NASA fortime that West andcollaborators havebeen awarded onthe Hubble SpaceTelescope (HST).

One of the maingoals of West’s cur-rent research is tofind star clusters inan area where noone has ever lookedbefore. All knownstar clusters arefound near galax-ies, but West andhis colleagues thinkthat some may ex-ist far away fromgalaxies in the emp-tiness of intergalactic space.

Through using both the HST and Subaru Telescope,more comprehensive data can be collected: HST gives theclearest, sharpest images because there are no distortionscaused by looking through Earth’s atmosphere, and SubaruTelescope gives a much wider field of view. The combinationof these two telescopes gives West a better chance of findingthe objects he is seeking.

The cosmic explorers pose for a picture onthe summit of Mauna Kea before beginningtheir night of observations with the SubaruTelescope. From left to right: Michael West,UH Hilo astronomy major Tamaka Miyake,Rutgers University astronomy graduatestudent Andres Jordan, and UH Hiloastronomy major Alexandre Bouquin.

Photos by Susan Collins

Tamaka Miyake at the controls of the $300million Subaru Telescope. Astronomers nolonger look through telescopes with theireyes to study stars and galaxies, but insteadsit in control rooms adjacent to the telescopelike the one shown here and view the imageson computer displays. West looks on asMiyake prepares Subaru's camera to take apicture of the Virgo cluster, an enormoussystem of thousands of galaxies located 15million light years from Earth.Subaru support astronomer YutakaKomiyama assists.

West and Bouquin examine one of the many images of galaxiesthat they took with the Subaru Telescope. The images arerecorded digitally by the telescope's extremely sensitive cameraand then sent to a computer in the control room where they canbe given a preliminary examination to monitor image quality.A more thorough processing and analysis of these images willtake weeks or months back at UH Hilo.

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Symposium inspires buddingjournalists

The Board of Student Publications of the University ofHawai‘i at Hilo and Hawai‘i Community College pre-sented “Behind and Beyond the Student Newspaper,” asymposium on student journalism, on February 23-24,2001. Close to 70 high school and college students fromaround the state attended. Keynote speakers were formerUnited Press/United Press international reporter RobertMiller, and former managing editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and UH Hilo alumnus David Shapiro. Studentsattended two workshop sessions each with professionalnewspaper editors, photographers, media consultants, ad-vertisers, and journalists. Lunch was held as a series ofroundtable discussions with local reporters, editors andother media professionals. Several awards were presentedto individual students and student papers for outstandingachievements of the past academic year. The event wassuch a success that organizers Susan Yugawa, UH HiloBoard of Student Publications representative, and EllenKusano, Campus Center coordinator, plan on making it anannual affair.

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“The HST and Subaru observations are a multi-telescope attack on the intriguing question of whether ornot intergalactic star clusters really exist,” explainedWest. “We’re looking in the Virgo cluster, which is thenearest large galaxy cluster to Earth—about 50 millionlight years away.”

Joining West and his students on the trip was AndresJordan, a graduate student from Rutgers University whohails from Santiago, Chile. Jordan is a student of Dr.Patrick Cote, a Canadian who is co-investigator of theproject along with West, as well as thesis advisor forJordan.

This run was an international collaboration, and tothe professional astronomers West and Cote, these stu-dents, both undergraduate and graduate, are an integralpart of the research process. Miyake, Bouquin and Jordanall took turns controlling the $300 million telescope,snapping astronomical images that will be used for theproject.

“Tamaka, Alex and Andres did a great job,” saidWest. “I’m very proud of them.”

Now that the data has been collected, analysis willtake many months. West will be including his studentsevery step of the way, and Miyake and Bouquin will beencouraged to use the data for their own senior thesisprojects. This means these students will have an experi-ence at UH Hilo that is rare among undergraduates: theopportunity to be there at the inception of the researchusing some of the newest and best telescopes in theworld, then the chance to assist with the project throughanalysis and into eventual publication in one of theleading astronomical journals.

“I learned so many things,” said Bouquin. “I con-sider this trip part of my education. Now my goal isclearer. I didn’t really know about observing with bigtelescopes. Now I know, and I am much more motivatedto be an astronomer.”

For West, helping students to find this inspirationand to experience the excitement of scientific discovery isjust as important as anything his research will reveal. Healready plans to bring two other UH Hilo astronomystudents on his next trip, to use the Keck Telescope inApril.

(Editor’s note: Susan Collins is a public information officer.)

Ka Lono Hanakahi is published by the Office of University Relations on the first of the month during the academic yearfor the faculty and staff of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. News and submissions are welcome. Deadlines are on the fifteenthof each month for the following first of the month publication. Contact Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, Director UniversityPublications, College Hall 9; (808) 974-7642 or email alyson@hawaii.edu.

Students and staff organizers of the student newspaper symposium.L-R: Karlen Suga, Lori Kawamura, Nic Los Banos, Susan Yugawa,Gabriel Luci, Courtney Albin, Koyu Wenty, Ellen Kusano andNathan Albin.

by Susan Collins

Newly selected president of the Universityof Hawai‘i system, Dr. Evan Dobelle, visited UHHilo on March 14 as part of a statewide tour to theneighbor island campuses. Dobelle, with wifeKit and 13-year-old son Harry, were greetedwith oli and lei, and then escorted by ChancellorRose Tseng to the Campus Center Dining Roomwhere a crowd of faculty, staff, and local com-munity leaders were gathered for the occasion.

Dobelle, relaxed and amiable, gave a shorttalk that touched all the bases. He spoke of hisbackground in politics—his two terms as mayorof Pittsfield, Massachusetts, his home town, whilestill in his 20s, and his roles in the Carter Admin-istration and the Democratic Party in the 1970s.He spoke of his experience in college governanceas president of City College in San Francisco,then as president of Trinity College in Hartford,Connecticut, prior to coming to UH.

Dobelle also expressed his wishes to nurtureUH staff and faculty; his awareness of the uniqueHawaiian culture and his feelings of obligation to help thatculture thrive; his wish to travel frequently to the neighborisland UH campuses to foster communication; and his dis-comfort at receiving such a high salary at a time of contractnegotiations between the state administration and UH fac-ulty.

Illustrating that he means what he says-”I never leave theoffice at night with a (message) slip left on my desk unan-swered”-Dobelle mingled with the crowd after his talk,attentively listening to each person’s greetings and concerns.In this spirit of open communication, the following are somethoughts and messages from a few members of the UH Hilo‘Ohana:

• Dr. Dobelle is a leading advocate for the liberal arts, astaunch supporter of research and technology, and a pas-sionate advocate of public-private partnerships. I’m so gladthis resonates with what UH Hilo is striving for.

-Chancellor Rose Tseng, in her welcome address to Dr. Dobelle

• Dr. Dobelle’s background shows tremendous support ofacademics and research, and this really impressed me. Ireally like his enthusiasm and I enjoyed talking with himvery much. He said he would like to come see our Collegefacilities in the near future and visit with me on our plans forgrowth and establishing areas of excellence within our Col-

lege. I’m looking forward to his visit.

-Dr. Michael Collier, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry,and Natural Resource Management

• Here is an individual who has been to a high quality liberalarts institution (Trinity) and can appreciate the value oftraining in arts and sciences. He can appreciate UH Hilo’smission. He can appreciate and value quality in teaching andresearch, and not focus solely on quantity. Also, I was struckby his involvement in local communities. I would look tohim to applaud the mission of UH Hilo as a communityresource and having community ties.

-Dr. Stephen Worchel, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

• I was interested to note Dr. Dobelle’s experience with arather wide variety of people from various social and educa-tional backgrounds. I do hope he remembers that the promo-tion of Hawaiian language and culture is mandated byHawai‘i’s State Constitution and that, systemwide, UH Ha-waiian language and studies programs need considerablymore support than they are now receiving.

-Dr. Kalena Silva, Professor of Hawaiian/Hawaiian Studies andDirector of Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikolani College of HawaiianLanguage

UH system President-Designate Evan Dobelleopens the lines of communication with agracious visit

Dr. Dobelle greets faculty and community guests upon his arrival on campus.Photo by Moses Gonsalves.

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for high-risk groups and what may affect retention. Stamoulissaid this study will also look for students that are a good fitat UH Hilo, and discover how the University can recruit thetype of students who are happy and do well here.

“I’ll also be looking (to conduct) an economic impactstudy for UH Hilo,” she said. “There’s a report on theeconomic impact of the UH system, and we need to make onefor this island.”

Also high on Stamoulis’ list of priorities, so that she cando her job quickly and effectively, is the task of learning thecomputer query program of the data warehouse at UHManoa, as well as the student information system here at UHHilo.

“I look at my job as one to facilitate any effort or initiativethat’s related to the advancement of UH Hilo,” she ex-plained. “My work helps the University serve the studentsbetter, helps secure foundation money, and helps to increaseenrollment.”

Stamoulis has a doctorate in Higher Education Policy,Governance and Administration from the University ofWashington (1988). The emphasis of her doctorate wasapplied research, and her dissertation was the developmentof a complex marketing segmentation model for education,which she later utilized in entering freshmen studies as anadmissions researcher at the University of Puget Sound.

Stamoulis has 12 years experience in marketing, public

opinion and educational research. She has extensive back-ground in statistics as well as knowledge of current educa-tional issues. Prior to joining UH Hilo, she served as theDirector of Institutional Research for the Pierce CollegeDistrict in Washington State. The Pierce District has twocolleges and a large extended learning arm that includescontract programs at two major armed forces bases andmultiple other sites. Her work there focused on retention,faculty-mix, student success and enrollment planning, aswell as a wide repertoire of multivariate data analytic tech-niques.

“I’m very interested in all sorts of research,” she said.“UH Hilo is a very stimulating place. There’s a lot you canlearn here.”

Stamoulis holds a B.A. in Russian (1971), a M.A. inRussian Literature (1973), and a B.A. in Editorial Communi-cations (1975), all from the University of Washington. Shehas studied at L’Alliance Francaise, Paris (1968); the Univer-sity of Leningrad, USSR (1973); and the Institute for BalkanStudies, Thessaloniki, Greece (1975). She speaks Russian,Modern Greek, and French, and looks forward to studyingHawaiian language here at UH Hilo.

Stamoulis has three children: a 14-year-old daughterwho currently resides with her, and two sons who will joinher later to enroll in UH Hilo next fall.

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• Dr. Dobelle’s talk to the UH Hilo community was veryimpressive. It will be his decisions, though, that really count.One way to show his support for East Hawai‘i in general andUH Hilo in particular would be to approve the proposedCounseling Psychology M.A. for UH Hilo. The communityneeds trained mental health professionals and many peoplewho would love to acquire the skills and credentials neces-sary to meet those needs can’t leave the Big Island for familyand other reasons. UH Hilo is positioned to offer the pro-gram. All we need is system support.

-Dr. Kenith Simmons, Professor of English and Chair of theHumanities Division

• There are two messages from the UH Hilo Athletic Depart-ment that I would like to share with Dr. Dobelle. The firstmessage is defined by a mandated federal law that UH Hilomust meet Title IX requirements now. The second messageis about appropriate funding. Athletics by its mere existence

has an obligation to recruit quality students, travel exten-sively to meet NCAA requirements for minimum competi-tion, and we must seek to hire quality teachers/coaches. Allthis costs money—much more than we have had in the past.

-Ms. Kathleen McNally, Director of Athletics

• In order for the UH Hilo astronomy program to grow andto become what everyone expects it to be, we need a presenceon the summit of Mauna Kea, i.e., a UH Hilo telescopedevoted to education as well as research. Not only will thisbecome a major resource for our undergraduate curriculum,K-12 outreach, and summer programs, but it will also makeus a bona fide member of the research community. I hope Dr.Dobelle will do everything in his power as president of UHto help us achieve this goal.

-Dr. Richard Crowe, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

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Hats off to...

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Chancellor Rose Tseng last monthwas honored on the House Floor by the21st Hawai‘i State Legislature. Marchwas Women’s History Month andTseng was recognized for her accom-plishments and dedication as chancel-lor of UH Hilo.

Michael West, Associate Professorof Astronomy, has been invited to givea review talk on the formation of galax-ies and the large-scale structure of theuniverse at a special session of the June2001 meeting of the American Astro-nomical Society in Pasadena, CA. Themeeting is the largest of its kind inNorth America and draws roughly2,000 attendees.

Kauanoe Kamana, Associate Pro-fessor of Hawaiian/Hawaiian Studies,and Pila Wilson, Professor of Hawai-ian/Hawaiian Studies, provided thekeynote address at the Administrationfor Native Americans Grantee Confer-ence in Las Vegas in February. Theconference provided assistance to tribalgroups that have received federal fund-ing to document, teach, or use theirtraditional languages. Both also gave apresentation at the University of Wash-ington on a similar topic with DarrellKipp, director of the Piegan Institute, aMontana Blackfeet non-profit that hasestablished a Blackfeet language me-dium school based on the model of thelaboratory school program of Ka Haka‘Ula O Ke‘elikolani College of Hawai-ian Language.

Christian Weisser, Assistant Pro-fessor of English, had his article on“Toward Ecocomposition: An Over-view and Some Critique” accepted forpublication in the journal College En-glish. The article explores intersectionsbetween discourse and ecological theo-ries in an attempt to map the emergingfield of ecocomposition. Additionally,Weisser recently received copies of hisnew book, Ecocomposition: Theoreti-cal and Pedagogical Approaches.

Judith Gersting, Professor of Com-puter Science, served as program co-

chair for the recent Thirty-Second Tech-nical Symposium in Computer ScienceEducation in Charlotte, NC. This ma-jor international meeting on computerscience education drew over 1,000 par-ticipants. While there, she also partici-pated in a panel discussion, “Program-ming Early Considered Harmful.”

Jennifer Wheat, Assistant Profes-sor of English, had her proposal for apanel on “Visions and Realities: Tac-tics for Promoting Student Involve-ment In and Beyond the Classroom”accepted for the June meetings at theAssociation for the Study of Literatureand the Environment in Flagstaff, AZ.In addition to chairing the panel, shewill give a presentation on the uses ofdebate in the environmental literatureclassroom.

Manu Aluli Meyer, Assistant Pro-fessor of Education, gave a talk on“Our Epistemic Possibilities: Hawai-ian Research Potential” at the Univer-sity of California, Santa Cruz in Febru-ary. The conference, “DecolonizingMethodology and Beyond: Construct-ing Indigenous Methodologies in Re-search,” was attended by over 120 in-digenous scholars worldwide. Ad-ditionally, Meyer visited the Univer-sity of Michigan in March to discussHawaiian educational ideas, philoso-phies and pedagogy with educationstudents and faculty.

Kelly Burke , Assistant Professor,Management Information Systems,and Eric Jeschke, Assistant Professorof Computer Science, conducted anelectronic commerce workshop spon-sored by the UH Hilo School of Busi-ness and the State Department of Busi-ness, Economic Development andTourism on February 24 and March 3on campus. Topics included electroniccommerce strategies and models, in-frastructure needs, server and softwareoptions, site design, security, market-ing and other implementation alterna-tives.

Rose Tseng

Michael West

Pila Wilson

Christian Weisser

Judith Gersting

Jennifer Wheat

Manu Aluli Meyer

Kelly Burke

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Bob Watson, Associate Professor ofPolitical Science, served as project di-rector and editor of the first-ever “Re-port to the First Lady.” Sponsored bythe National First Ladies’ Library, itwas presented to Laura Bush and herstaff. Watson also completed his text-book, Public Administration: Cases inManagerial Role-Playing, due out inlate summer, and also recently com-pleted editing the first comprehensiveencyclopedia on the first ladies, Ameri-can First Ladies. Finally, he was invitedto submit his article, “The White GlovePulpit: A History of Policy Influence byFirst Ladies,” to be published in theOrganization of American Historians’Magazine of History.

Cornelia Anguay, Director of Up-ward Bound, Ginger Hamilton, Direc-tor of Minority Access & AchievementProgram, and Gail Makuakane-Lundin, Director of Hawaiian Leader-ship Development Program and HealthCareers Opportunity Program wereselected among applicants nationwideto be readers for the Gates MillenniumScholars (GMS) Program in San Fran-cisco, held last month. The GMS Pro-gram is funded by a grant from the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation to pro-vide African Americans, American In-dians/Alaska natives, Asian PacificAmericans, and Hispanic Americanswith an opportunity to complete a col-lege education, particularly those in-tending to study mathematics, science,engineering, education or library sci-ence.

John Kusinski, Professor of Music,conducted the Big Island High SchoolSelect Band in January and February atthe invitation of local music educators.The band included instrumentalistsrepresenting six Big Island school andUH Hilo. This month, he travels toFlagstaff, AZ for a three-day festival toconduct the 2001 Arizona All-StateBand. This annual event is sponsoredby the Arizona Band and OrchestraDirectors Association and this year fea-tures over 100 auditioned players fromArizona.

Miyoko Sugano, Associate Profes-sor of English, had her article,“Hawai‘i’s Local Literature,” and herpoem, “Training,” published in the in-augural issue of Meridians: Feminism,Race, Transnationalism, an interdisci-plinary journal of Smith College andWesleyan University.

Wayne Miyamoto, Professor of Art,last month participated in a nationaljuried exhibition entitled, “Works onPaper, Krishna Reddy’s Selections,” atthe SOHO-20 Gallery, New York, andin the Honolulu Printmakers 73rd An-nual Exhibition, Academy Art Center,Honolulu. He also participated in the3rd International Graphic TriennialBitola 2000 - Macedonia, Ministry ofCulture and Institute for Preservationof Cultural Monuments, Natural Rari-ties, Museum and Gallery, Bitola, Re-public of Macedonia last fall.

Andrew Grabar, Assistant Profes-sor of Art, is participating in the 75thAnnual International Competition, ThePrint Center, Philadelphia, PA, andthe Honolulu Printmakers 73rd An-nual Exhibition, Academy Art Center,Honolulu. He was also in Curious Jour-ney, National Juried Exhibition, Gal-lery 214, Montclair, NJ, and is publish-ing an article on “Gypsum, Alabaster,and Egyptian Alabaster,” to be in-cluded in the Encyclopedia of Sculp-ture.

Thom Curtis , Assistant Professorof Sociology, had his article on “Tele-vision Violence and Aggression” pub-lished in the March issue of NationalConference on Family Relations Re-view. The study involved more than1,100 subjects and found that there isno correlation between television view-ing habits and later acts of aggressionagainst people or property. However,the study found a strong correlationbetween children who witnessed orexperienced acts of family violencewhile growing up and subsequent vio-lent behavior as adults.

Bob Watson

Ginger Hamilton

Gail Makuakane- Lundin

John Kusinski

Miyoko Sugano

Wayne Miyamoto

Andrew Grabar

Thom Curtis

by Susan Collins

The UH Hilo Performing ArtsDepartment recently sponsored aseries of master classes in the area ofoperatic singing, with visiting pro-fessionals giving individualized in-struction to both music faculty andstudents.

The first workshop was held inFebruary with world-renownedbaritone Stephen Salters, movementexpert Eileen Kinsella, and pianistLinda Osborn-Blaschke. Co-spon-sors of the event were UH Hilo’sPerforming Arts Department, theCollege of Arts and Sciences Hu-manities Division, and the Hawai‘iConcert Society, with support in theform of a generous gift from theManey Fund.

Salters is the first American everto win the Grand Prix of one of themost important vocal competitionsin the world: the 1996 Queen Eliza-beth International Voice Competi-tion. In 1999 he captured America’smost prestigious vocal award at the Walter W. NaumburgCompetition. Salters has traveled the world performing inboth opera houses and concert halls.

Following his UH Hilo performance, Salters, along withKinsella and Osborn-Blaschke, spent two afternoons with 16workshop participants, which included UH Hilo music fac-ulty and students. An advocate of community participation,Salters conducts master classes for young singers and takespart in community- and school-based outreach programsthroughout his travels.

The event was co-organized by UH Hilo music facultyAmy Yamasaki, Melanie Robinson and Verna Post. “It was ablast, I didn’t want it to end,” said Yamasaki, who was alsoa workshop participant. All three instructors provided andprepared students for the master class instruction.

The concluding event of the workshop was a StudentSingers’ Recital at UH Hilo Theatre. “It was a knock-your-socks-off performance,” said Kenith Simmons, UH Hilo Col-lege of Arts and Sciences humanities division chair, whohelped facilitate the master class series.

Richard Harrell, director of the San Francisco OperaCenter—the training arm of the S. F. Opera, the largesttraining program for opera singers in the world—conducted

the second master class of the series on March 16. Harrell wasin Hilo with the resident artists of the San Francisco Opera,who gave a public performance at the UH Hilo Theatre thesame evening.

Four music students and Yamasaki each received indi-vidual instruction from Harrell during the master class.Through a series of techniques involving the imaginationand body movements, Harrell tailored the instruction to suiteach participant’s voice and abilities. Gloria Mendoza-Watson, piano teacher and performer in the Hilo commu-nity, provided accompaniment.

The final master class in the series was held on March 19by soprano Catherine Gayer of the Berlin Opera. Six Univer-sity music faculty and students participated. The workshopalso included counseling from Gayer in the auditioningprocess. Pianist Glenn Jacobsen, a classical performer andteacher in the Hilo community, accompanied the instruction.

“This plethora of master classes in the area of operaticsinging is just wonderful,” said Simmons. “UH Hilo vocalstudents and faculty have enjoyed these professionals fromaround the world, and we are very grateful for the commu-nity support that has made these classes possible.”

A treat for the ear: series of vocal masterclasses held at UH Hilo

Amy Yamasaki, UH Hilo music instructor, is tutored by Richard Harrell, director of the SanFrancisco Opera Center, at a vocal master class held on campus February 16. Photo by SusanCollins.

Love Makes a Familyphoto exhibit ondisplay

The nationally acclaimed photo exhibit,Love Makes a Family, will be on display in theCampus Center Dining Room April 24-26.Photographs by Gigi Kaeser are accompaniedby text and portray the existence, the love, andthe power of gay and lesbian families.

A reception will be held on Wednesday,April 25 from 4-6 p.m. in the Campus CenterDining Room. A performance will be given byHalau O Kahiwahiwa, led by Kumu HulaAuli‘i Mitchell, and a talk by Dr. DougMikkelson, UH Hilo associate professor ofreligious studies.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Univer-sity of Hawai‘iís Systemwide Task Force onSexual Orientation, the UH Hilo WomenísCenter, Student Activities Council, and theUH Hilo Gay and Lesbian Ohana.

For additional information, please call theWomenís Center at x47306.

New athletic director/coaches highlight AprilFocus on UH Hilo

Kathleen McNally,the new director of in-tercollegiate athletics,will be among the fea-tured guests appearingon the April 4th telecastof Focus on UH Hilo.The program, hosted byChancellor Rose Tseng,airs 8-8:30 p.m. on Chan-

nel 4. McNally will be joined by Vulcan HeadBasketball Coach Jeff Law and Head Volley-ball Coach Sharon Peterson.

The guest line-up for the April 18th pro-gram is currently being finalized.

Focus on UH Hilo highlights UH Hiloprograms, up and coming developments, andthe Universityís partnerships with variouscommunity organizations.

Final catalog proof due April 27The deadline for the final proof of galleys for the 2001-2002 Catalog

is Friday, April 27, 2001. Deans and Directors will be receiving theirrespective sections around April 11.

The publication is scheduled to arrive for distribution by July 3.Please contact Alyson Kakugawa-Leong at x47642 or email

alyson@hawaii.edu with any questions.

Kathleen McNally

John Kusinski, professor of music, counts the beat for drummer Fred La Chance during aperformance on the Library Lanai in celebration of March's Spirit Week. Members ofboth the Vulcan Band and the Jazz Ensemble joined together to produce an hour ofoutstanding music. Photo by Susan Collins.

Two literary readings this month

The UH Hilo English Department presents readings in April bytwo recipients of the Hawai‘i Award for Literature, an award givenfor outstanding literary achievements with relevance to Hawai‘i andHawai‘i’s people.

The first is a reading of fiction by Ian MacMillan, winner of the1992 award and professor of creative writing at UH Manoa, onThursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the UH Hilo Library Third Floor StaffLounge.

A reading of scenes from various plays by Victoria NalaniKneubuhl, winner of the 1995 award and presently a freelance writerand consultant, will be held on Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. on the UHHilo Theatre Lanai.

The event is sponsored by the Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council, theHawai‘i Island Writers Association, and the UH Hilo Library.

For additional information, please call Miyoko Sugano at x47463.

The 2001 Chancellor’s Celebration and Recognition Cer-emony will be held on Thursday, May 3 at 3 p.m. in theCampus Center Dining Room and this year will recognizefour individuals for their outstanding achievements. Nomi-nations must be received by Barbara Heintz, Office of Stu-dent Affairs, no later than Monday, April 16, 4:30 p.m.

“Over the years, a number of awards have been createdto recognize achievements attained by University person-nel,” said Kevin Roddy, committee member. “To streamlinethe award process, the awards have been placed on rotation.”

This year’s awards include:* Outstanding University Support Employee Award:

presented to a University support service employee who hasmade significant contributions to the University;

* Professional Staff Award: presented to a faculty/pro-fessional staff member who has made major professional

contributions to his/her unit and to the University as awhole, and a positive impact on the welfare of students andcolleagues;

* Outstanding Advisor/Mentor Award: presented to anindividual who has demonstrated outstanding academicadvising and/or mentoring of students; and

* Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities:presented to a member of the tenure track faculty or a full-time BOR-classified professional staff member for outstand-ing achievement in scholarly and/or creative endeavors,including publication of well-reviewed books, publication inrefereed journals, or performances or exhibitions at the stateor national levels.

Nomination forms are available from the Web site: http://library.uhh.hawaii.edu/awards or by contacting KevinRoddy at x47343 or email kroddy@hawaii.edu.

Nominations for Chancellor’s Recognition Ceremony due April 16

The University Canoe Club put a new twistto the usual celebrations on this year's March 17by holding their St. Paddles Day Regatta at HiloBayfront.

Twenty-two crews of UH Hilo/HawCC fac-ulty, staff and students, along with UniversityPark personnel participated in friendly – butsometimes fierce – competition.

The University Canoe Club, founded in 1996,has provided opportunities for over 200 partici-pants this academic year to learn and enjoy Ha-waiian outrigger paddling on Hilo Bay. Themission of the UCC has been to provide theUniversity community with recreational pad-dling especially geared toward students meet-ing and interacting with faculty/staff/Univer-sity Park staff as well as invited communitymembers.

A University Canoe Program AdvisoryBoard has been appointed by Dr. Keith Miser,vice chancellor for student affairs, to overseedetails of equipment and facilities for the canoeprogram year-round. Gail Makuakane-Lundinserves as convener.

This year, the UCP has added two new outrigger canoesto its inventory as well as paddles, buggie and a storageenclosure donated by Keiichi and Uta Kodaira. The Kodairasremain honorary members of the UCC and plan to partici-pate in Club activities upon their return to the islands.

Everyone a winner at St. Paddles Day Regatta

The “Hilo Honeys” captured a hardworking 3rd place in the Women's Novice division.The happy crew are (L-R) Olivia Rivera, Stacey Simmons, Glorianna Gusman, RoseTseng and Alane Fieldson. Photo by Susan Yugawa.

The UCC practice schedule for Spring 2001 (until April28) is Mondays and Thursdays at 4:30 pm and Saturdays at9:00 am. Faculty and staff are invited to join the Club anytime throughout the year. For more information, contactSusan Yugawa at x47571 or e-mail yugawa@hawaii.edu.

Grants Updateby Kawika Lovell

The following PIs were awarded grants totaling just over $322,000:

Rose Tseng/ Harold Masumoto: EPSCoR $173,698Experimental Program toStimulate Competitive Research

David Sing: QLCC $10,000Hilo ED 2000

Dan Brown: HCF $22,000Nitric Oxide

Randy Senock: USDA/COH $16,835Impact of Timber Harvesting(2 separate awards)

Timothy Kane: HI Campus Compact $9,600Service Learning(3 separate awards)

Tanya Johnson: HCF $25,000Home Safety Monitoring

Stephen McLean: COH $50,000UH Hilo - University Park

Don Hemmes: HARC $10,632Study of Saprophytic Fungi

Sheldon Furutani: COH $5,000Development of a Second Generation Solar Pasteurizer

Congratulations to all of you!

Want in on the Action?If you have a good idea for a research or training project, please do not hesitate to contact the great team at RCUH:933-0898, grants@uhh.hawaii.edu, or visit them at their new offices in the Institute for Astronomy building atUniversity Park, Room 105.

(Editor’s note: Kawika Lovell is the Director of Administrative/Client Services for the RCUH-Hilo Office.)

Campus Events

April

2 Last Day to Apply for Credit-by-Exam for Spring

“I” Removal Deadline: Student to Instructor

Vulcan softball vs. Pima College (exhibition), 2 p.m.,UH Hilo Field

4 Focus on UH Hilo, 8 p.m., Channel 4

5 Ian MacMillan reading, 7:30 p.m., Library Third FloorStaff Lounge

6 Vulcan baseball vs. Univ. of Washington, 6 p.m.,Wong Stadium, Admission

7, 8 Vulcan softball vs. Chaminade University, Noon,UH Hilo Field

Vulcan baseball vs. Univ. of Washington, 1 p.m.,Wong Stadium, Admission

9 “I” Removal Deadline: Instructor to Records Office

12 Last Day to Submit Credit-by-Exam Results toRecords Office

12, 13 Vulcan baseball vs. Fresno State University,6 p.m., Wong Stadium, Admission

13 Holiday: Good Friday

14 Vulcan baseball vs. Fresno State University, 11 a.m.,Wong Stadium, Admission

14, 15 Vulcan softball vs. Hawai‘i Pacific University, Noon,UH Hilo Field

16 Nomination deadline for Chancellor’s Celebrationand Recognition Ceremony

18 Focus on UH Hilo, 8 p.m., Channel 4

20 Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl reading, 8 p.m.,Theatre Lanai

22 Vulcan baseball vs. Hawai‘i Pacific University,Noon, Wong Stadium, Admission

24-26 Love Makes a Family photo exhibit, CC Dining Room

25 Love Makes a Family reception, 4-6 p.m.,CC Dining Room