The following students in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management received Dean’s List honors for the Fall 2013 semester:

Jean Marie Acuna, Harmony Aiona, Kevin Alison, Calvin Arca, Amber Au, Whitney Boteilho, Cody Butler, Elizabeth Capron, Sarah Chard, Megan Clowe, Shannon Correia, James Darden, Noel Dickinson, Alexandra Doi, Robert Dundas, Yasha Eads, Martin Ennis, Shawntiarre Faumui, Alyssa Fujii, Sydney Gamiao, Rachel Gorenflo, Kristin Hardy, Pavel Havlicek, Terence Hedtke, Ashli Hirai, Kelly Hodson, Amy Horn, Kayuri Kadoya, Aleysia-Rae Kaha, Lukas Kambic, Cornel Kea, Anna Kimball, Tiffany Kotani, Kuilei Kramer, Jordan Lee Loy, Daisy Maher, Jordyn Mansinon, Samuel Meleisea, Jade Miyashiro, James Moore, Ron O’Brien, Wesley Piena, Hannah Reid, Jake Rodrique, Jessica Scott, Johnathan Shestokes, Michael Sthreshley, William Trammell, Kirsti Vedenoja, Lehua Wall, Noelani Waters, Shohei Yamaki, and Stephen Zilch.

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo sophomore Jimmee Makamae Silva-Naone has received a Spring 2014 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad.

Silva-Naone was awarded $3,000 to continue her second semester at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. A Hawaiian studies and anthropology major, Silva-Naone looks forward to learning how Maori youth view their presence in a growing Western society. Upon her return, she hopes to share how young Maori balance their role in society with cultural preservation.

The Gilman program was established to promote interest in non-traditional study abroad destinations and to support students traditionally under-represented in study abroad activities. The scholarship also helps to promote multi-cultural fluency through exchange opportunities, which is a key objective of the UH Hilo Strategic Plan.

For more information, contact the Center for Global Education and Exchange, at 932-7488 or www.hilo.hawaii.edu/studyabroad.

The following students in Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo received Dean’s List honors for the Fall 2013 semester:

Alexandria U`ilani Agdeppa, Ka`alalani Wilson Ahu, Corey Thomas Bell, Samuel Frances Clubb, Dillon Keane Dominguez, Brandy Dugo, Martin Keone Ennis, Alexander Kawika Guerrero, Kana Hayase, Stacy Caruth Joel, Kamalani M Johnson, Aleysia-Rae K Kaha, Kamaleikuuipo Kalehuawehe-Valentine, Micah Leialoha Kealaiki, Emma Nohea Laurel Aika Koa, Dylon Garreth Koehn, Monique Lee Komoda, Ciera Mae Lamb, Yixiao Li, Daniel William McDonald, Hokulani Bennett Mckeague, Maranda Dawn Mumm, Amanda Rose O'Farrell, Angela Ann F Pastores, Natalie Laua`e Poy, Christopher Bryan Ramos, Ronald Kaipo Santos, Noriko Sato, Nelli Vyacheslavovna Semenko, Jennifer Ku`uipo Thomson, Teren Nahelenani Travaso, Kellie Chiemi Yagi, Cheyne Isao Yong Yonemori, and Abcde Kawehi Zoller.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo College of Continuing Education and Community Service (CCECS) and the North Hawai‘i Education & Research Center (NHERC) offers two Basic Grant Writing workshops in February. Each session is $55, space is limited, and advanced registration is required.

The first workshop is on Saturday, February 1, 9-3 p.m., at the NHERC in Honoka`a. Call 775-8890 to register. Another session is on Saturday, February 8, 10:30-4:30 p.m. in Hilo at CCECS. Call 974-7664 to register.

Participants will learn about the grant writing process, how to write a compelling statement of need, learn what funders are looking for, and where to find grants.

The workshops are presented by Jeani Navarro, who has over 30 years of grant writing experience.

Dr. Sethuraman Paramasivan, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from India, presents a public lecture on Functional Foods – Development, Marketing and Consumption in India at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo on Tuesday, January 28, 6:30 – 9 p.m. in University Classroom Building (UCB) Room 100.

Paramasivan is senior scientist at the Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research in Trivandrum, India and current Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His specialty is the psychology of eating and his work focuses on how psychological and health factors influence the choice and consumption of foods.

Paramasivan’s visit is underwritten by the Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF), which allows Fulbright Visiting Scholars who are currently in the United States to travel to other higher education institutions across the country. The event is also sponsored locally by the UH Hilo College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management (CAFNRM).

For more information, contact CAFNRM at 932-7691.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo continues its “Global Lens” international film series this spring. The film series is intended to promote intercultural understanding through the medium of cinema and to expose audiences to new voices from relatively unfamiliar parts of the world. All films begin at 7 p.m. in the University Classroom Building (UCB) Room 127. There is no admission charge.

The first film, “Nothing More (Nada+),” is shown on Tuesday, January 28. The film is a debut feature that explores the political and social aspects of today's Cuba. It is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Algeria’s official submission to the 2009 Academy Awards, “Masquerades,” is shown on February 25. This heartfelt comedy is in Arabic with English subtitles.

“I Am From Titov Veles” from Macedonia is shown on March 18. This Academy Award nominee blends realism with performances to create a vivid landscape of life and longing in post-communist Macedonia.

The final film is “Belvedere” on April 15. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission to the 2012 Academy Awards, “Belvedere” is a portrait of war’s troubled aftermath and paints an uncommon image of patience, faith, love, and forgiveness.

“Global Lens” is sponsored by the UH Hilo International Student Services and Intercultural Education Program. For more information, visit hilo.hawaii.edu/international or call 932-7467.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo International Student Association presents International Nights 2014 on Friday, February 7 and Saturday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center. This annual event features performances from around the world and is a favorite among students, the community, and visitors.

This year’s shows feature performances from Samoa, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Germany, Micronesia, Japan, Tahiti, Kiribati, China, Tonga, West Africa, Palau, Timor-Leste, the Marshall Islands, and the United States.

Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students, children, and seniors. Tickets may be purchased at the UH Hilo Box Office from 9-1 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, or at the door. Advance ticket purchase is recommended. For ticket information, call 932-7490.

For more information, visit http://hilo.hawaii.edu/international/IN.php.

Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance performs once again at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center in one performance only on Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30 pm.

“Back by popular demand, the Bad Boys of Dance is comprised of the most talented and versatile young male dancers in the world today,” said PAC Manager Lee Dombroski. “Each Bad Boy is selected based on his extraordinary physical abilities and artistry; the talent of the Bad Boys is unparalleled in the industry.”

Founded by the dance world's very own Bad Boy Rasta Thomas, “we show the world what great male dancing looks like, and to make dancing fun, entertaining and accessible to a whole new generation.”

Tickets are reserved seating and priced at $25 General, $20 Discount and $12 UH Students/Children. Box Office hours are Tuesday - Friday, 9 a.m. -1 p.m.

For more information and to purchase tickets, call 932-7490 or order online at artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and the Institute for Shipboard Education (ISE) are marking this year’s 50th anniversary of the popular Semester at Sea (SAS) program by extending their scholarship agreement.

A renewal agreement was signed on Friday, January 17 by ISE/SAS Vice President Michael Zoll and UH Hilo Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Matthew Platz aboard the MV Explorer during a visit to Hilo. Under the open-ended agreement, UH Hilo and ISE plan to award a total of 10 scholarships each year.

Among the students receiving a scholarship for the current voyage is Kyle Davis, a student in the UH Hilo College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management (CAFNRM). Davis will visit 16 cities and 12 countries around the world during his voyage.

Since 2009, 21 UH Hilo students have benefited from the program.

For more information, contact the Center for Global Education and Exchange at (808) 932-7488 or visit: hilo.hawaii.edu/studyabroad.

A limited number of tickets are still available for the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo 14th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet, scheduled for Saturday, February 22, at the UH Hilo Campus Center Dining Room beginning at 5 p.m.

This year’s Distinguished Alumni honorees are Attorney and State Board of Education Vice-Chairman Brian De Lima and Retired School Principal Joyce Iwashita. The Distinguished Service honorees are the late Physics and Astronomy Professor Dr. Richard Crowe, former Center for Continuing Education and Community Service Director Mary Matayoshi, and UH Hilo Chancellor Emerita Dr. Rose Tseng.

Organized by the University’s Alumni and Friends Association, this signature event includes a buffet dinner, live and silent auctions to benefit the alumni scholarship program and alumni activities, and the opportunity to meet and network with University and community leaders and supporters.

Tickets are $75 each or $600 for a table of eight. To purchase tickets, or for more information, contact UH Hilo’s Marketing and Alumni office at 974-7501 or 974-7643.

Thirteen students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Marine Science Department and Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science (TCBES) Graduate Program will attend this year’s Ocean Science Meeting February 23-28 at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center in Honolulu. The meeting is the largest gathering of ocean scientists in the world and is expected to attract more than 5,000 people.

The students will be among presenters sharing the results of their research via posters and oral presentations. They will also showcase Hawaiʻi’s cultural heritage by performing a series of traditional Hawaiian chants, including a chant about voyaging that follows the introduction of the opening speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Kapu`uwailani Lindsey, who will be recognized and honored for her role as a way-finder.

The trip is sponsored by various scientific endeavors. Seven students have received travel grants from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Multicultural Program. The other six are supported with funds from the Hawaiʻi EPSCoR grant.

Na Pua No`eau, the Center for Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian Children, is calling on all of its former students to come and be recognized at this year’s 22nd Annual Hawaiian Family AfFair. The free, public event will be held on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo campus on Saturday, March 1, from 9- 3 p.m. This year’s theme is “E Ola Koa: Living long and strong like a koa tree in the forest.”

Activities include various exhibit booths, free health screenings, a keiki fitness center, arts and crafts booths, make and take workshops, entertainment, food booths, and more.

More than 16,000 Native Hawaiian children from across the State and around the globe have participated in a Na Pua No`eau activity since its first event was held in 1990. The Center provides educational enrichment that guides students to learn through the Hawaiian culture.

“The best way to describe the program’s impact on students is that the students create a healthy life and lifestyle for themselves, their family and their community,” said Executive Director Dr. David Sing. “The Center helps them define and understand themselves as Hawaiians and to build a future that acknowledges and embraces who they are in the evolving world.”

Sing said the Center wants to celebrate the lives its alumni have made for themselves, their families and community. Approximately 18-percent of the native Hawaiian students currently attending UH Hilo and 17-percent attending Hawaiʻi Community College are products of the Na Pua No`eau pipeline.

For more information, call 974-7678.

The public is invited to the 7th annual University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Ocean Day Mālama Kanaloa Festival on Sunday, March 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hilo’s Bayfront Beach Park.

This free, event is hosted by the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s Pacific Island Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES) in partnership with the County of Hawaiʻi, EPSCoR Hawaiʻi IMUA III, UH Hilo Student Activities Council, UH Hilo Student Association, Board of Media Broadcasting, Board of Student Publications, and the University of Hawai’i Sea Grant.

Since its debut as Ocean Day in 2007, the festival has become a popular community event, drawing crowds in excess of 2,000 participants. Volunteer Coordinator Amelie Sterling says the event also serves as an important learning resource for students.

“Ocean Day is a great volunteer opportunity for students to gain a service learning experience as well as enhance their resumes and build skills for the future,” Sterling said. “Some faculty members even offer it as an opportunity for students to gain extra credit or fulfill a community service requirement within their course.”

The Ocean Day Mālama Kanaloa Festival is focused on increasing awareness of ocean and coastal issues such as conservation, sustainable use of resources and ocean safety through interactive displays, activities and booths. Activities include fishing games, marine critter touch tanks, craft making, makahiki games, face painting, poi-pounding, seed planting, marine debris displays, and more. The event also showcases ongoing research while providing opportunities to interact with people interested in working together to care for island and ocean communities.

For more information, email: UHpipes@hawaii.edu or call Amelie Sterling at 933-0707.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center welcomes Rhythmic Circus on Tuesday, March 11, with Feet Don’t Fail Me Now beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center.

“It is said that there's tap dancing, and then there’s Rhythmic Circus,” noted PAC Manager Lee Dombroski. “This percussive-dance phenomenon electrifies audiences with its hard-hitting, rapid-fire tap, sidesplitting humor and finger-snapping tunes. Their performance features unbelievable tap from four award-winning dancers, a one-man beat-box phenomenon, and an infectious six-piece band that channels everything from funk to blues and rock and roll to salsa that will excite, energize, and inspire audiences of all ages.”

Tickets are reserved seating and priced at $25 General, $20 Discount and $12 UH students (with a valid student ID) and children up to age 17, and are available by calling the UH Hilo Box Office at 932-7490 or ordering online at artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu.

The English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo presents A Night of Local Literature, featuring readings by two prominent Hawaiʻi authors on Wednesday, March 5, in UCB Room 127 from 5-7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Hawaiʻi Island-born Juliet S. Kono is best known for her works Hilo Rain, Tsunami Years, Ho`olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile, and Anshū.

Darrell H.Y. Lum, one of the founding editors of Bamboo Bridge Press, was behind the hallmark publications Paké: Writing by Chinese in Hawaiʻi and Growing Up Local: an Anthology of Poetry and Prose in Hawai‘i. He is also the author of Sun: Short Stories and Drama and Pass On, No Pass Back.

Kono and Lum will offer a selected reading of their works. Their presentations follow an opening discussion on the importance of local literature by Arnold Hiura, a key figure in the 1980s movement known as Talk Story that has its roots in Hilo.

For more information, call Seri Luangphinith at 932-7216.

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected John M. Pezzuto, dean of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, to receive their top research award.

Pezzuto receives the 2014 Volwiler Research Achievement Award for his outstanding research and contributions to the field of natural product drug discovery. The award will be announced in July at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas, and will be published in Academic Pharmacy Now and on the AACP website.

“It is a tremendous honor, and I am very grateful for being recognized by the AACP in this manner,” Pezzuto said. “Over the years I have had the privilege of working with many fine colleagues, students, postdocs and visiting scholars. We continue to hope our hard work will make a difference for future generations.”

As Founding Dean of the UH Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy created in 2007, Pezzuto leads approximately 100 faculty and staff to educate and train students for careers in pharmacy.

After 35 years in academia, he has amassed more than 500 publications, is the co-inventor of several patents, the editor of four books, a member of more than 10 editorial boards of international journals, and the editor-in-chief of Pharmaceutical Biology. He is widely known for identifying the cancer-prevention aspects of resveratrol, a chemical found in grapes and grape products. Primarily noted for working in the area of natural products, he has been an administrator and researcher in pharmacy and drug discovery.

Pezzuto received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Rutgers University and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers University). He was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute and performed two years of postdoctoral work in the Department of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“I have been witness to John’s work for many years, and have been impressed with the intensity that he displays when pursuing his research,” said Lucinda Maine, AACP executive vice president and CEO. “His research is world renowned and has the potential to affect the health of millions not only now but in the future.”

The Volwiler Research Achievement Award was established as the research prize in academic pharmacy to honor the late Ernest H. Volwiler, former president and research director of Abbott Laboratories. According to AACP, “the intent of the Award is to recognize annually an individual within the ranks of pharmacy education recognized by his or her peers as one of the leading research workers in a given area of the pharmaceutical and clinical sciences, pharmacy practice and the social and administrative

sciences, and for outstanding contributions to the respective disciplines.”

Pezzuto joins a highly distinguished group of researchers who have received this award since it was introduced in 1977.

Two Art/Printmaking students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo had their works accepted into the Honolulu Printmakers 86th Annual Juried Exhibition, on display until March 21, 2014.

Juror Liz Chalfin selected senior Liv Johnson’s and junior Rosella Manja Vaughn’s pieces out of 241 entries from Hawaiʻi. Johnson’s work, Pods #2, also received an Award for Excellence.

“The student works showcased in this well-established, juried exhibition are a testament to the quality and rigor of the UH Hilo Art Program and the exceptional abilities of its students,” said UH Hilo Assistant Professor of Art Jon Goebel.

The exhibition is open to the public at the Honolulu Museum of Art School on O`ahu.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo announces the collaboration between sculptor Chakaia Booker and Phil Sanders, director and master printer for the EFA Robert Blackburn Print Studio and Workshop and Residency hosted through the UH Hilo Art Department Print Making Studio.

The Residency project features two free public presentations. On Thursday, March 13, Sanders shares the history of the Robert Blackburn print workshop and information regarding prints from the studio collection currently on view in the UH Hilo Campus Center Gallery, CC Room 301. On Monday, March 17, Booker discusses her work in sculpture and ongoing collaboration with Sanders in the UH Hilo Printmaking Studio. Both presentations begin at 6 pm in UCB Room 127.

The events are made possible with support through the Campus Center Gallery – Fee Board, Chancellor’s Diversity Committee, and the Art Department at the UH Hilo Visiting Artist Program.

For additional information, contact Professor Michael Marshall at mdmarsha@hawaii.edu or call 974-7524. For disability accommodation, contact 933-0816 (V), 933-3334 (TTY), or uds@hawaii.edu.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Department presents Miss Saigon, the award-winning musical written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, opening April 10th at 7:30 p.m. for a two- weekend run at the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center (PAC).

A cast of 37 performers and conductor Armando Mendoza bring to life the story of an American G.I. who experiences war’s emotional choices when he falls in love with a Vietnamese girl just as Saigon is besieged by the North Vietnamese.

Advanced student choreographers and directors have joined faculty choreographer Celeste Staton and stage director Jackie Pualani Johnson to create several dances and scenes. They include Dance majors Kawehi Kanoho-Kalahiki and Kawai Soares, who devised original choreography for The Fall of Saigon and The Heat is on in Saigon, two iconic numbers that set the backdrop of the war.

The dances feature College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management faculty member Norman Arancon as The Engineer; Rachel Edwards, a Performing Arts Department Senior in her final semester as a music concentration major as Kim; community member Scott Wuscher as the American GI; and UH Hilo students Lilinoe Kauahikaua, Angeline Jara, Bailey Woolridge, and Kanoho-Kalahiki as the working girls of the Dreamland Bar: Gigi, Mimi, Yvette and Yvonne.

Miss Saigon also marks the full-scale musical debut of Performing Arts graduate Kimo Apaka and senior Denyse Woo-Ockerman, who completed the University’s stage directing course and will stage several songs in the production.

Tickets are available by calling 932-7490 or can be purchased online at artsctr@hawaii.edu.

For more information, contact Professor Johnson at 932-7491 or email jpjohnso@hawaii.edu.

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo students recently competed in the 9th annual Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) Statewide competition on O`ahu and received several honors that qualified them for the national competition in Orlando, Florida, June 25-28, 2014.

The Public Service Announcement Team, categorized as a Teamwork Event, took first place with their 30-second PSA on “Educating the Community about Child Hunger.” The topic was to promote a healthcare service organization and bring awareness to a healthcare situation. Team members, all freshmen, include Lark Jason Canico (team captain), Ridge Cabacang, Sheldon Cabudol, and Guinevere Davenport. Each member gave an oral presentation in addition to displaying the PSA.

Kimberly Cabreros, a sophomore, took first place in Pharmacology. Categorized as a “Knowledge Test,” the test was related to a specific career or specialty area from within the healthcare community that measured proficiency at the recall, application, and analysis levels.

Junior Mandee Miyake took third overall in Prepared Speaking, which was categorized as a Leadership Event. She wrote a paper and presented a speech on “The Future Starts Now.”

The UH Hilo team also received an award for having the highest increase in membership in the Post Secondary Chapter for 2013-2014.

Dr. Cecilia Mukai, UH Hilo HOSA faculty adviser, shared, “By competing in these events detailing healthcare provider skills, students learn invaluable lessons to last them a lifetime. We are all very proud of these students’ efforts and accomplishments.”

Hawaiʻi HOSA provides opportunities for secondary and postsecondary students to develop character and apply leadership skills within the area of the healthcare industry. It is one of the five Career and Technical Student Organizations in Hawaiʻi. UH Hilo HOSA is a Registered Independent Student Organization (RISO).