Nursing professor elected to Global Health Board, UH presents free global health session
Kristine Qureshi, a University of Hawaii at Manoa professor of the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene has been selected to join the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Board of Directors. Qureshi, PhD, RN, FAAN, and associate dean for research and global health, will help support CUGH and its academic global health community of 179 member institutions around the world engaged in addressing health challenges to improve the well-being of people and the planet.
UH will present a free pre-conference satellite session on March 9, 2021 as part of the upcoming CUGH 2021 annual Global Health Conference with keynote speaker Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Qureshi and other interdisciplinary experts from the UH System’s Global Health and Social Justice Work Group will cover key issues on “Global Health in Hawaii and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands.” This is the first known time Hawaii and the Pacific region have been highlighted at the international CUGH conference.
Jenna Shotwell named to dean’s list at Biola University
Jenna Shotwell, of Waikoloa, was named to Biola University’s dean’s list for academic excellence. Shotwell was one of approximately 1,800 students who were named to the dean’s list in fall 2020 for having a GPA of 3.6 or higher while enrolled in 12 or more credits and whose cumulative GPA is at least 3.2.
Digitizing Hawaiian-language newspapers
Bishop Museum, the Hawaii Tourism Authority, and Kamehameha Schools are launching a collaborative project, He Aupuni Palapala, to newly digitize Hawaiian language newspapers in Hawaii repositories for free online access.
Images of newspapers currently available online were largely digitized in the early 2000s from microfilm images taken nearly 40 years ago. Under the guidance of a preservation specialist, tightly bound volumes will be unbound for new digital imaging and long-term preservation. The project will also make widely available for the first time, the numerous single issues and bound volumes that have been uncovered since the time of the early newspaper microfilm project.
He Aupuni Palapala aims to create new, high-quality scans of newspaper pages available from all known collections in Hawaiʻi. This requires a collaboration between Hawaii libraries and archives for the initial stage of inventorying the holdings to determine the best available source materials, and a comprehensive plan for digitizing the images.