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- UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MANOA EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS FIND THE RIGHT EXECUTIVE PROGRAM FOR YOU! DISTANCE LEARNING MASTER OF HUMAN EXECUTIVE MBA EXECUTIVE MBA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WHO SHOULD ATTEND Experienced professionals Neighbor island professionals HR professionals and seeking career advancement and military personnel individuals seeking HR careers Tuesdays 6 - 9 pm Online Tues & Thurs 6 - 9 pm Wednesdays 6 - 9 pm CLASS SCHEDULE Alternating Saturdays Alternating Saturdays Alternating Saturdays 8 am - 5 pm 8 am - 12 pm 8 am - 5 pm • Study integrated core • Collaborative hybrid • Strengthen knowledge business disciplines learning environment of HR practices locally with cutting-edge with online and and globally business practices in-class lectures • Guest panelists offer PROGRAM FEATURES • Valuable networking • Optional Health Care real-world experiences opportunities amongst track offers insight into on HR strategies and diverse cohort the dynamics of health practices members and alumni care industry NEXT COHORT INTAKE August 2015 August 2016 August 2016 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CONTACT shidler.hawaii.edu/emba shidler.hawaii.edu/distance-emba shidler.hawaii.edu/mhrm For questions, call (808) 956-5774 www.shidler.hawaii.edu/executive UHAA 2015 Spring_FInal.indd 2 4/28/15 10:52 AM - UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MANOA EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS FIND THE RIGHT EXECUTIVE PROGRAM FOR YOU! DISTANCE LEARNING MASTER OF HUMAN EXECUTIVE MBA EXECUTIVE MBA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WHO SHOULD ATTEND Experienced professionals Neighbor island professionals HR professionals and seeking career advancement and military personnel individuals seeking HR careers Tuesdays 6 - 9 pm Online Tues & Thurs 6 - 9 pm Wednesdays 6 - 9 pm CLASS SCHEDULE Alternating Saturdays Alternating Saturdays Alternating Saturdays 8 am - 5 pm 8 am - 12 pm 8 am - 5 pm • Study integrated core • Collaborative hybrid • Strengthen knowledge business disciplines learning environment of HR practices locally with cutting-edge with online and and globally business practices in-class lectures • Guest panelists offer PROGRAM FEATURES • Valuable networking • Optional Health Care real-world experiences opportunities amongst track offers insight into on HR strategies and diverse cohort the dynamics of health practices members and alumni care industry NEXT COHORT INTAKE August 2015 August 2016 August 2016 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CONTACT shidler.hawaii.edu/emba shidler.hawaii.edu/distance-emba shidler.hawaii.edu/mhrm For questions, call (808) 956-5774 www.shidler.hawaii.edu/executive Untitled-2UHAA 2015 1 Spring_FInal.indd 3 3/24/154/28/15 11:0112:54 AMPM Table of Contents UH MAGAZINE Sharon Spear PUBLISHER sharons@pacifi cbasin.net Gail Miyasaki 6 NEWSMAKERS EDITOR/WRITER Maui’s teaching hotel, Hilo’s research drone and why Jay David Choo Shidler gave $100M Ti any Hill CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Wes Funai 8 UPDATE ART DIRECTOR Briefi ngs on the latest Odeelo Dayondon UH achievements Darin H. Isobe ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTORS 9 Q&A 2014 Young Community Leader of the Year Trisha Kehaulani Watson UH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND UH FOUNDATION Janet Bullard VICE PRESIDENT FOR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS ALUMNI AND DONOR RELATIONS [email protected] Margot Schrire DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS UH FOUNDATION [email protected] Tim Ing ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS – MARKETING AND 10 COMMUNICATIONS, THE INTERSECTORS OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Pastry Chef Michelle Karr Ueoka is one [email protected] of three professionals whose work at the Inside every small business is a bigger one. crossroads of Art & Science keeps their UH MAGAZINE IS PROVIDED 16 businesses creative and competitive. THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF THE GAME OF LIFE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES: Former Wahine athletes Beth American Savings University of Hawai‘i 4 McLaughlin and Maj Forsberg Bank Foundation tell why they’re “still in the Diversified Foods Inc. University of Hawai‘i game.” 24 MILESTONES at Mānoa College of Local matters for Bamboo Ridge, Indich Collection Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Stephany Nihipali Vaioleti and others Kahala Nui 19 2015 DISTINGUISHED University of Hawai‘i at Spring 2015 Spring Pōmaika‘i Ballrooms Mānoa Shidler College ALUMNI of Business 29 ALUMNI EVENTS & CALENDAR We understand where your business is now and where you want it to be. Ren Hirose University of Hawai‘i Happenings and upcoming activities Alumni Association Wilson Home Care Jillian Inouye That’s why we provide personalized services and critical tools that help Tom H. Shigemoto 30 PARTING SHOT you achieve your goals. Our products include business loans, business Stanford B.C. Yuen “UH MAGAZINE is published by Pacifi c Basin It’s Big Data, virtual reality and video Communications in partnership with the University credit cards, and merchant and payroll services. Talk to us. We’ll help you of Hawai‘i Alumni Association and UH Foundation. games for inventor Jason Leigh All contents copyright ©2015 by Pacifi cBasin become the bigger business you were meant to be. Communications, 1000 Bishop Street, Suite 405, Honolulu, HI 96813. Printed in Hawai‘i. All information contained herein is based on information currently available and is subject to change at any time without ON THE COVER: Motorcycle customizer Ivan Gabriel of Ivan’s Psycles. notice. No rights or benefi ts of any type are inferred by Photo by Aaron Yoshino. this publication.” Member FDIC asbhawaii.com Credit cards are issued by First Bankcard®, a division of First National Bank of Omaha, pursuant to a license from VISA U.S.A., Inc. UHAA 2015 Spring_FInal.indd 4 4/28/15 12:43 PM 05-15 ASB FP UH.indd 1 3/16/15 5:28 PM Inside every small business is a bigger one. We understand where your business is now and where you want it to be. That’s why we provide personalized services and critical tools that help you achieve your goals. Our products include business loans, business credit cards, and merchant and payroll services. Talk to us. We’ll help you become the bigger business you were meant to be. Member FDIC asbhawaii.com Credit cards are issued by First Bankcard®, a division of First National Bank of Omaha, pursuant to a license from VISA U.S.A., Inc. 05-15UHAA ASB2015 FP Spring_FInal.indd UH.indd 1 5 4/28/153/16/15 10:52 5:28 PMAM Newsmakers 4 29 2 3 Percent of Hawai‘i students, grades 9-12, reported by a UH Cancer Center 1 study to use e-cigarettes—the highest rate in the nation at more than double the national teen average of 12 percent. “Well-designed studies are (now) needed to provide a clearer picture of the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes by teenagers,” says Thomas Wills, lead researcher and interim director of the Center’s Cancer Prevention & Control Program. Sources: Pediatrics Journal online 12/15/14; Pacific Business News 12/18/14 6 PHOTOS COURTESY OF SPACIAL DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION LABORATORY 1 HILO Spring 2015 Spring DRONE ON— Flying 400 feet above Pāhoa, UH Hilo’s FAA-authorized UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) or drone captured this now historic 2014 photo of the lava flow encroaching on the Pahoa Transfer Station’s buildings (it stopped just short). Making up to six flights daily to remote, uninhabited and even dangerous lava flow areas, the fixed-wing drone, outfitted with a high-resolution camera, “is a great use of UAV technology to benefit people and communities,” says Hilo’s Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Ryan Perroy of the drone’s contributions of rapid, frequent and updated data for use by Civil Defense, Hilo County and UH researchers. (Inset: Pictured with drone, Hilo’s Spatial Data UAV team (L-R) Ryan Perroy, Nicolas Turner and Jonathan Price). For more information: Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization Laboratory | spatial.uhh.hawaii.edu UHAA 2015 Spring_FInal.indd 6 4/28/15 10:53 AM Newsmakers – 2 MANOA “Actually, it exceeded my expectations.” Jay H. Shidler (BBA ’68, Mānoa), Hawai‘i real estate leader and philanthropist, of his $100 million total gift— the largest by a single donor—to his namesake Shidler College of Business because of its outstanding growth under Dean Vance Roley in “three key aspects: faculty, students and reputation.” The unique gift, including ownership income interests (leased fees) generated by Shidler’s downtown office buildings in Chicago, Denver and other cities, will provide an ongoing source of PHOTO: OLIVIER KONING PHOTO: cash to meet the College’s long-term financial needs. 3 MAUI HOMEGROWN HOSPITALITY Heard of teaching hospitals? How about Hawai‘i’s Act Restaurant, will offer food and beverage services. first ever teaching hotel at UH Maui College? Thanks Maui-born Grand Wailea Director of Operations to $3.5 million in state funding, former dormitory Kai Pelayo, also chair of Maui College’s Hospitality buildings will be transformed beginning this year to Advisory Committee, says HA will “impact the whole “a fully functional hotel where guests can stay and campus academically, from accounting, natural students can have ‘hands-on’ real-world hospitality resources to IT, marketing, retail and more” because, work experience,” says Lorelle Peros, UH Maui’s like small, ever-changing communities, hotels’ work hospitality and tourism program coordinator of its force needs are diverse. Hospitality Academy (HA). “It creates unprecedented opportunities for local Through a unique Adopt-a-Room collaboration with talent to train here for competitive jobs and to share Maui’s major resorts, HA guests can choose from among their knowledge of our cultural values, sense of place hotel-sponsored interior decors outfitted to individual and aloha.” resorts’ standards. The College’s Maui Culinary Academy, featuring award-winning fine dining Leis Family Class For information: maui.hawaii.edu/haofmaui/ 4 MĀNOA BARRACKS TO BEDSIDE 7 “Successful veterans able to work in the civilian preference points for military nursing experience, says sector are what we’re about,” says Associate Professor Mark, herself a 34-year Army veteran.