The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo hosts a free public presentation featuring two members of the Maui EV (Electric Vehicle) Alliance on Tuesday, February 26 at 2 p.m. in UCB 127.

Project Director Dr. Anne Ku and Ethan Elkind, climate policy associate at the UC Berkeley School of Law, will discuss a recent study done to prepare Maui for EV’s. EV’s in Paradise: Planning for Developing Infrastructure in Maui Count, examined barriers, incentives, and other issues that can serve as templates for other isolated grids and island communities with similar challenges.

Ku, who lectures in mathematics and music (piano) at UH Maui College, holds degrees in electrical engineering, operations research/decision sciences, and music. She writes a regular column for Maui Weekly called “EV in Paradise,” and directs the monthly “Maui EVA TV” which airs on cable and YouTube.

Elkind has organized and facilitated high-level stakeholder meetings on various energy-related topics such as energy storage, renewable energy, energy efficiency and electric vehicles. He has also written and published numerous studies on energy-related matters for California policy makers including “Electric Drive by ’25: How California Can Catalyze Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles by 2025,” published in September 2012.

Maui EV Alliance (Maui EVA) is the name given to UH Maui’s EV readiness project. Maui EVA was the only education institution to receive one of 16 planning grants awarded in October 2011 by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program. It was also named the most innovative electric vehicle readiness project in the country by Green Tech Media in December 2012.

For more information, visit http://www.mauieva.org/.

Nā Pua No`eau, the Center for Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian Children, presents its 21st annual Hawaiian Family afFair on Saturday, March 2, from 9-3 p.m. on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Campus Center Plaza. The event is free and open to the public.

The theme of this year’s event is Ke Ola Mau (perpetuating our families through health and wellness) and honors Aunty Edna Baldado. Kaho`okele Crabbe will emcee with special guest emcee, former Nā Pua No`eau student and television news reporter, Mileka Lincoln.

Exhibits will highlight the various services available in the areas of health, education and social services such as free health screening and workshops. Participants can also dance for fitness to Zumba, Hip Hop or hula, enjoy live entertainment and visit a variety of food, arts and crafts booths. Children’s activities include a Keiki Fitness Center for ages six months to six years.

The event is produced in partnership with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Queen Lili`uokalani Children’s Center, Hui Mālama Ola Nā ‘Ōiwi, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaiian Civic Club of Hilo, INPEACE Keiki Steps, Hawaiʻi Community College, UH Hilo-Kipuka and the UH Hilo Minority Access and Achievement Program.

For more information, call the Nā Pua No`eau office at (808) 974-7678.

The Women’s Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo hosts a series of events during March in honor of Women’s History Month. The events are free and open to the public.

A lecture on “Gender Agenda” by Patrick Madden, is held on Monday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. in Campus Center 306. Madden is executive director of the United Nations Association. He previously served four years as president & CEO of Sister Cities International (SCI), building a network of U.S cities partnered with more than 2,000 international communities that worked to implement economic development, humanitarian, cultural and education programs and exchanges.

A film screening of “Half the Sky” is on Wednesday, March 6, 5 p.m., Campus Center 306. Discussion and light refreshments will follow. On Friday, March 8, an International Women’s Day presentation will be held at 10 a.m. on the Campus Center Plaza. Local women’s organizations will present information, discuss ways to help support woman locally and internationally, and to network.

The Women’s Center is also hosting Yoga Tuesdays with Amanda Pierson through the end of the school year. The weekly sessions are being held every Tuesday from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. in Campus Center 301.

For more information about any of these events, or disability accommodations, contact the Women's Center at 974-7306 or email uhhwomen@hawaii.edu.

A team of student pharmacists from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo attained the top spot in a national pharmacy organization’s student community service awards.

The American Association of College of Pharmacy (AACP) named Shanele Shimabuku (Class of 2013), Jed Sana, Tracy Nakama, Ann Txakeeyang, Brianne Gustillo, Amanda Wendel and Naoto Oki (Class of 2014) and Davis Hanai (Class of 2015) as the top team to have earned The Student Community Engaged Service Award.

The award, sponsored by Teva Pharmaceuticals, is “intended to encourage students and faculty to design and build programs of community-engaged service learning, deliver consumer education about medication use, expand access to affordable medications, and improve the public's health.”

The award-winning project is called the Pacific Islander Mobile Screening Clinic (PIMSC), which seeks to improve public health and access to people largely from the Marshall Islands through the use of health fairs and wellness clinics. Students conducted diabetes, cholesterol and blood pressure screenings, as well as provided wellness and lifestyle counseling and referrals to accessible health care services offered at reasonable costs.

Through collaboration with the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) and networking with other community organizations island-wide, the PIMSC has screened more than 350 participants so far this year through mobile screening clinics. PIMSC participants are invited back for follow-up, and Hawaiʻi County residents are welcome to take advantage of regularly scheduled clinic office hours at the free ADRC Wellness and Safe Medication Use Clinic run by Dr. Katherine Anderson and second-year pharmacy students.

“Part of the beauty is that students and our community partners serve when they are able and so there is a fluid combination of different members volunteering at different times,” said Anderson, who is the faculty adviser for the project. “In this way, in addition to providing an important service for our patients, the overall educational experience of our student pharmacists is enriched.”

The students were awarded plaques and a cash team prize to be used for enhancing or sustaining PIMSC, or for travel support for them to attend and present their projects at a professional meeting.

The College also received a cash award to be used exclusively to support program expansion of recognized or new community engaged service projects, as well as a Tiffany & Co. Shooting Star. One designated student and faculty advisor will receive funding to attend the national awards ceremony at AACP’s 2013 annual meeting that will be held in Chicago this July.

Txakeeyang, who is the lead author on a poster that will be presented at a conference for the American Pharmacists Association (AphA) March 1-4 in Los Angeles, said PIMSC has come a long way since beginning in 2010. She said being a part of the mobile clinic has helped her and her fellow students become better future pharmacists.

“By reaching out to disenfranchised Pacific Islanders and giving us hands-on, real professional pharmacy experience working with people, we as student pharmacists have the ability to increase our cultural awareness,” Txakeeyang said. “One of our greatest accomplishments this year was establishing relationships with some of the Marshallese leaders. This allowed us to build bridges with a group of individuals who typically do not seek health care due to barriers such as language and health care access.”

The Marshallese Mobile Screening Clinic got its start with funding from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy’s Student Leadership Enrichment fund. In March 2012, it was named one of 17 Healthy Eating and Active Living projects to receive funding from the Hawaiʻi Island Beacon Community.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo presents a senior project by three Performing Arts majors entitled “Everyday’s A Musical,” on Friday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Admission is by donation.

“Everyday’s A Musical,” produced by drama performance majors Alston Albarado and Angeline Jara along with music concentration student Justin Chittams, is a musical theatre revue laced with an original storyline featuring songs from various Broadway shows such as Fame, Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon, Dream Girls, In the Heights and Chicago. The show is choreographed by College of Continuing Education and Community Service Program Coordinator Dori Yamada, and co-directed by performing arts major Scott Wuscher, with music provided by the UH Hilo Jazz Orchestra’s Pathology Band.

Featured performers include Performing Arts graduates Kimo Apaka and Cristina Hussey, Agriculture faculty member Norman Arancon and graduate Bria Callaway. They’ll be joined by Zeisha Cobile, Jacob Griffin, Willyam Hodson, Lilinoe Kauahikaua, Paris Kippen, Lawrence Mano, Kawai Soares, and Katherine Wilson.

For more information, contact Alston Albarado at aa22@hawaii.edu.

The public is invited to a University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Open House on Saturday, March 16, 8:30-1:30 p.m. Check-in is at the Campus Center Plaza.

Sponsored by the UH Hilo Admissions Office, there will be information booths on the University’s various academic programs, residence halls, clubs, organizations, and student activities, as well as campus tours and live music.

Participants are asked to RSVP at hilo.hawaii.edu/rsvp (choose UH Hilo Open House). For any questions, email uhhadm@hawaii.edu or call (800) 897-4456.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Department presents a Senior Project of two performances of the rock musical and science fiction movie spoof, Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadow Cast, Saturday and Sunday, April 6 & 7, at the UH Hilo Old Gym on Kapi`olani Street at 7 p.m.

Mason Pulgados and Nicole Cowan star as the clean-cut kids Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who encounter car trouble and stumble upon the laboratory where Dr. Frank-N-Furter, played by Kawai Soares, is in the midst of his maniacal experiments. Also featured is Randal McEndree as Dr. Scott, Bertram Kalani Spain as The Criminologist, along with “live” shadow cast performances.

The show is produced by Denyse Woo-Ockerman, Nicole Cowan and Jin Piper, who also directs. Choreography is provided by Agriculture faculty member Norman Arancon with Musical Direction by Performing Arts music concentration major Christopher Vizzone.

Participation Kits are $10. Tickets are $5 with costume or $8 without costume. All tickets are available at the door or can be purchased in advance by contacting Denyse Woo-Ockerman at 756-5575 or email dwoo.films@gmail.com.

The next film in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Global Lens international film series is

“Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures.” The film will be shown on Tuesday, March 19 at 7 pm in UCB 127. There is no admission charge.

Brazil’s official submission to the 2006 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film, “Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures” is set in Brazil in 1942. The story revolves around two very different men who meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship. The film is in Portuguese and German with English subtitles.

The last film in the Global Lens film series will be shown on April 16. For more information, visit http://hilo.hawaii.edu/studentaffairs/international.

Global Lens is sponsored by the UH Hilo International Student Services and Intercultural Education Program and the International Student Association. For more information or to request accommodations, call 974-7313.

For the third year in a row, students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy are offering a Health Screening and Fair for the people of Miloliʻi and their families on Saturday, March 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event, which will be held at the Miloliʻi Community Center, will include blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol screenings, brown bag medication reviews (please bring medications in original packagaing and leave refrigerated medicines at home), diet, lifestyle and health information, food, fun and more.

The students represent Phi Delta Chi, a professional pharmacy fraternity with more than 43,000 pharmacists and student members nationwide. Natalie Savona, a second-year pharmacy student from the Class of 2013, is coordinating the event alongside chapter president Janine Masri, a third-year pharmacy student from the Class of 2014.

The event will be managed under the supervision of Forrest Batz, a professional pharmacist and member of the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Other faculty will also take part in the event, such as Aaron Jacobs, Phi Delta Chi faculty adviser.

For more information, call 933-3854.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo would like to inform the public that there will be construction work taking place on Kawili Street as part of UH Hilo’s Hale `Alahonua (University Village Student Housing) development from Monday, March 18 through Friday, March 29, 8-4 p.m. on weekdays, weather permitting, to allow for the trenching of utility lines across the street.

Street crossings will take place about 250 feet east of the main entrance to the University and about 50 feet south of the entrance to the UH Hilo Athletic Complex. Although two-way traffic will continue to flow, a lane may be closed for a short period of time. Police officers will be on site to direct traffic. Motorists are advised to obey the traffic signs, to proceed through the work zone with caution, and to allow for extra time to traverse this area.

Questions may be directed to Construction Manager Robert Yamada at 960-8128.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center’s final event of the season will be held on Saturday, April 13 with Obake Stories and Ancient Hawaiian Myths, told by Alton Chung and Jackie Pualani Johnson at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

Chung grew up with the stories, superstitions, and magic of the Hawaiian Islands. “This combined with his Japanese and Korean roots gives him a unique perspective to tell cultural tales and personal stories with a deep sense of reverence and authenticity,” noted PAC Manager Lee Dombroski. “Alton breathes life into traditional Asian folktales with sensitivity and deep connection, and enjoys telling true stories of the Japanese-Americans during WWII. But his true passion is telling ghost stories.”

Storyteller Johnson weaves the epic tale of Pele and Hi`iaka into a stirring journey of moving images and lilting voices to recreate drama of devotion, revenge and love.

“The words and powerful visuals are taken from Volcano artist Dietrich Varez in his retelling of the ancient story of Pele and Hi`iaka ‘A Tale of Two Sisters,’ released by Hilo’s Petroglyph Press and graced with block prints befitting the striking confrontations between the passionate siblings,” Dombroski said.

Tickets are reserved seating and are $15 General, $10 Discount, $7 UH Student and Children 17 and under and are currently available at the PAC Box Office.

Parental discretion advised as some material may be too intense for children under age 11.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo invites the public to watch the 50th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition April 4, 5, 6 from 6 p.m. to midnight on the Campus Center Plaza. The events will be shown on a large screen with 125 seats available on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no admission charge.

“UH Hilo is proud to serve as an overflow venue for the viewing of this year’s festivities,” said University Relations Director Jerry Chang. “We will also have food booths available by various University clubs and organizations.”

The event is sponsored by the UH Hilo Student Association and the Office of the Chancellor.

For more information, contact Rachel Nazara at 974-7500 or Gail Makuakane-Lundin at 974-7444.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center features the UH Hilo Acting Troupe in HAUNT!, ghost stories from around the world, on Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, April 14 at 2 p.m. in the PAC.

“The Troupe begins with an exorcism at Waipi’o Valley and ends with what might just be Pele disappearing from a car in a ride on the Hamakua Coast,” said Director Jackie Pualani Johnson. “In between, the raconteurs will perform eerie tales from Japan, China, Iraq, Germany, England, and Mexico. The stories, recommended for audiences nine years old and older, are staged to terrify in one moment and generate giggles in the next!”

Actors include Performing Arts majors Karla Ahn, Willyam Hodson, Alyssa Lassiter, Peter Veseskis, and Denyse Woo-Ockerman, who are joined by graduates Rob Hunt and Angela Nakamura. Blesson Allen, a political science major, auditioned and landed roles in the Troupe along with community actors Joyce Alcouloumre, Wolf Daniel Braun, Tyler Gee, Joann Hale, and Dickie Motherwell. Geoff Staton is assistant director and Apollo Harris is technical director.

Tickets are reserved seating and priced at $12 General, $7 Discount and $5 UH Hilo/HawCC students and children up to age 17, and are available by calling the UH Hilo Box Office at 974-7310 or ordering online at artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu.

Two University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo students pursuing double majors in Astronomy and Physics have earned prestigious and highly competitive national internships in their respective fields.

Junior Robert Pipes has been accepted to the National Undergraduate Fellowship through the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). This summer, Pipes will attend a one-week series of lectures on plasma physics at Princeton University before beginning a nine-week research project with Dr. David Pace at the General Atomics DIII-D tokamak in San Diego, California. His project will involve tracking high-energy ions to model heat loss along the walls of the reactor.

Jordan Bledsoe, a sophomore, has accepted an offer of a Maria Mitchell Observatory summer internship in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was one of just six selected out of 180 applicants for the internship, which is part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation. Bledsoe leaves at the end of May for her 10-week internship. She expects to be assigned a research project on “Quasars as markers of distant galaxy clusters” or “structure and evolution of clusters of galaxies.”

Dr. Marianne Takamiya, UH Hilo assistant professor of astronomy, said both internships are highly coveted, and being among the few who are selected is a great, personal achievement that sets up future success.

“Robert is the first student from UH Hilo to be admitted to the PPPL Internship, where students typically go on to top-notch universities or companies following their undergraduate work,” Takamiya explained. “The Maria Mitchell Observatory Internship is of similar caliber and Jordan and a small, select number of students will be mentored by visiting astronomers from renowned universities like Harvard, Yale and the University of California.”

The final film in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Global Lens international film series is “The Kite.” The film will be shown on Tuesday, April 16 at 7 pm in University Classroom Building (UCB) 127. There is no admission charge.

Set in Lebanon, this award-winning film tells the story of a teenage girl who must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to marry a man she has never met. Neither she nor her betrothed are eager to consummate a marriage to a stranger--a matter further complicated by the girl's surprising admission that she is in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the border.

The film is in Arabic with English subtitles.

Global Lens is sponsored by the UH Hilo International Student Services and Intercultural Education Program and the International Student Association.

For more information or to request accommodations, call 974-7313.

Applications are currently being accepted and registration is now in progress for the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo 2013 Summer Session. Classes will be conducted over two sessions: May 20-June 14, and June 17-July 26. Students will be able to take advantage of the tuition schedule introduced in 2011, which rolled undergraduate resident rates back to 2009 levels.

Tuition costs range from $248 per credit hour for resident students to $357 for non-residents, and $483 for graduate students. There is also a special $302.50 rate for Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) and Pacific Islander students.

“Many of today’s students are trying to balance their studies with a full- or part-time job and/or raising a family,” said Dr. Matthew Platz, vice chancellor for academic affairs. “So it’s important for us to provide our students with both educational value and more opportunities to meet their needs.”

This year, students will have more selections to choose from with a total of 171 courses, or 8% more than the 159 provided last summer. Over 40% of those courses are being offered online.

Organizers have adjusted their curriculum to address newly revised General Education requirements and to support the goals of the UH System’s “15 to Finish Campaign” that seeks to increase the number of students graduating in four years by emphasizing courses that fulfill the students needs in those areas.

“We fully support ‘15 to Finish,’ but recognize the challenges some students face making that commitment to go all in,” Platz said. “Summer Session can be a valuable planning resource that allows them to spread out that commitment yet still achieve the goal of graduating in four years.”

This summer’s course offerings highlight UH Hilo’s familiar role as a living, learning laboratory with classes and programs emphasizing the island’s cultural and academic resources including field courses in biology, geography and marine science.

Back by popular demand is QUEST (Quantitative Underwater Ecological Surveying Techniques), the intensive marine science field course conducted each year on the west side of the island. The two-week course trains undergraduates in underwater ecological surveying methodologies including design, implementation and analysis of a research project, and incorporates instruction in identifying the common seaweeds, corals, invertebrates and fishes of Hawaiian reefs.

A number of unique or novelty courses are also being offered, including an Island Ecology Field School taught by Dr. Allan Arndt from the University of Fraser Valley (UFV) near Vancouver, British Columbia, and UH Hilo’s Dr. Cam Muir. The course will combine students from both universities who will register with their respective home institutions.

For a tentative course listing and information, visit http://hilo.hawaii.edu/depts/summer/, email ccecs@hawaii.edu, or call (808) 974-7664. Students who haven’t registered for a UH Hilo credit course within the last six months can apply at http://hilo.hawaii.edu/studentaffairs/admissions/Apply.php. International students will need to submit additional forms.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo recently hosted over 40 researchers from universities, local and federal agencies, as well as natural resource managers and community planners to share information about their past, current, or future projects regarding freshwater and coastal water resources on the Big Island at the 2nd Big Island Water Resource Meeting held March 25th on the UH Hilo campus.

Effects of climate change, invasive species, development, and pollution on Big Island water resources, as well as cultural and traditional Hawaiian management use and practices were discussed by presenters, specifically ecohydrology, hydrology, ecology, and biogeochemistry of freshwater and coastal resources.

“This meeting was a great opportunity for the water resource community to share information about their ongoing projects and brainstorm on collaborations that will allow us to more effectively manage and protect our island’s water resources,” said Dr. Tracy Wiegner, associate professor of marine science and event chair. “We hope to make this meeting an annual event.”

UH Hilo, Hawaiʻi EPSCoR, and Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES) funded and provided logistical support for the meeting.

Highlights of the presentations can be found at: http://www.epscor.hawaii.edu/content/big-island-water-resources-conference-ii.

The second cohort of prestigious Dorrance Scholarships has been awarded to 10 Hawaiʻi Island high school students who will begin their studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in fall 2013.

The Dorrance Scholarship is an innovative, four-year award designed to benefit local students who are the first in their family to attend college. Each year, up to 10 eligible students are awarded need-based scholarships of $8,000 per year to attend UH Hilo. Awards are renewable for a total of eight semesters of funding, and additional cohorts of scholars will be added in subsequent years.

The 2013 recipients include:

• John Alokoa, Kealakehe High School, Waikoloa

• Rachel Gristock, Kea`au High School, Kurtistown

• Tawanaka (Puki) Kaupu, Kamehameha Schools Hawaiʻi, Ocean View

• Richard Kerr, Hilo High School, Hilo

• Cheyenne Losalio, Konawaena High School, Captain Cook

• Gabriel Lubbess, Kamehameha Schools Hawaiʻi, Kea`au

• Stareynelle (Kaua) Mitchell, Ke Kula`o `Ehunuikaimalino, Holualoa

• Justin Shiigi, Hilo High School, Hilo

• Benjamin Wada, Christian Liberty Academy, Pahoa

• Luana Zablan, Kanu o ka `Aina, Kamuela

Prior to their freshman year, Dorrance Scholars will participate in a custom-designed summer bridge program to help them transition from high school to college. In future summers, scholars will take part in international travel and employment preparation, bringing the estimated total value of each award to over $60,000 for the entire four-year period.

“Higher education is the key to a brighter future,” said Chancellor Don Straney. “The Dorrance Scholarship goes to the heart of our mission at UH Hilo, where some 70 percent of our students are the first in their family to attend college and an equal number rely on some form of financial aid.

“The support from the Dorrance family is a very important gift to UH Hilo and we are extremely grateful for their commitment to our Hawaiʻi Island students,” he added.

UH Hilo’s program is an extension of the highly successful Dorrance Scholarship Programs that have operated in Arizona for the past 13 years. The program is credited with opening the doors of higher education while boosting graduation rates for more than 400 first-generation college students.

Consulting pharmacists on Maui and Kaua`i are now helping patients at risk of medication-related hospitalizations and ER visits through Pharm2Pharm, a project from The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

The project, located in the UH Hilo DKICP’s Center for Rural Health Science and led by Karen Pellegrin, launched on Maui in February and on Kaua`i earlier this month. Plans are to expand the services to Hawaiʻi Island in June.

Funded by a $14.3 million CMS Health Care Innovation Award, Pellegrin and her team are using a model of care that is designed to improve quality and reduce costs among elderly and others at risk in Hawaiʻi’s rural counties of Maui, Kaua`i and Hawaiʻi.

“By offering these consulting pharmacist services, we can improve the quality of life for our elderly population,” said Pellegrin, who is director of Strategic Planning and Distance/Continuing Education for DKICP. “In addition, we can make healthcare in Hawaiʻi more sustainable by preventing hospitalizations and ER visits.”

Patients who may benefit from the services are identified by the hospital consulting pharmacists, who begin working with the patients on medication management issues while they are still in the hospital. At discharge, the patient is formally connected to a community consulting pharmacist, who continues providing medication-management services for a year.

“I have been encouraged by the reaction from the physicians and pharmacists in our rural communities,” Pellegrin said. “Everyone has been extremely positive about this additional patient care.”

Maui-based Anita Ciarleglio and Kaua`i-based Roy Goo, both assistant professors of pharmacy practice for DKICP, are leading the hospital component of the project. Additional project partners are: Hawaiʻi Community Pharmacist Association, Hawaiʻi Health Systems Corporation, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health, Hawaiʻi Health Information Exchange, and Hawaiʻi Health Information Corporation.

All consulting pharmacists participating in the Pharm2Pharm service are required to complete an eight-hour continuing education program. Some DKICP student pharmacists are now receiving experiential training, called rotations, using this model.

“The goal of the Pharm2Pharm project is to achieve the three-part aim of the CMS Innovation Center: Better health, better care, lower cost,” Pellegrin said.

The Spring 2013 Great Leaps Dance Concert takes place at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center on Saturday, April 27 at 2 pm and at 7:30 pm. The shows offer an array of 11 different styles and moods in choreography, showcasing over 100 dancers.

Faculty Celeste Staton, Annie Bunker and Kea Kapahua will span the fields of modern technique, jazz dance entertainment and ballet. The advanced ballet class fuses the talents of the dancers in their choreographic contributions, including Irish step dancing, jazz and contemporary techniques threaded with classical ballet.

Guest choreographer Trina Nahm Mijo presents an ocean-inspired dance with the UH Hilo Dance Ensemble. UH Hilo seniors Scott Wuscher and Stephanie Whitehall have joined together to create a duet filled with passion and intricate partner work. Meika Wilde, also a UH Hilo senior, performs her Directed Studies project. Dori Yamada, a long-time favorite dancer/choreographer on the UHHPAC stage, will not disappoint with another innovative creation.

Tickets are $7 General, and $5 Seniors, Students & Children. This is an open seating event. Call 974-7310 to order by phone. For disability accommodations, contact Heidi Veilleux at 933-3209 (V) or 933-3334(TTY) at least 10 working days prior to the event.