UH Community Design Center wins two national awards
The University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center received two national American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Awards.
Presenting plans for future urban living
UH Mānoa students took on the UrbanPlan challenge of designing a proposal to revitalize a neighborhood.
Transportation research journal names UH Mānoa professor editor-in-chief
Karl Kim, executive director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, has been named editor-in-chief of a new open access journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
UH graduate students sing a song of inclusion
East-West Center affiliates record a music album to raise awareness about the global refugee crisis.
Planning on making a difference
The UH Community Design Center is taking the lead on addressing critical problems facing the state’s built environments.
Plan for disruptive high-tide flooding by mid-century
This column on the rising sea level change in Hawaiʻi by Makena Coffman and Chip Fletcher ran in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on October 14, 2018.
Advanced environmental planning degree launched
Beginning in fall 2018, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students will be able to pursue a combined undergraduate and graduate degree in environmental planning in five years.
UH-led Honolulu commission issues sea-level and climate-change guidance
In response, Mayor Caldwell issued a formal directive to all city departments and agencies to take action in order to address, minimize the risks from and adapt to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise.
UH experts appointed to city climate change commission
The role of the commission, which includes UH Mānoa's Rosie Alegado, Makena Coffman and Chip Fletcher, is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawaiʻi.
Hurricane Harvey’s a harsh reminder for Hawaiʻi
This editorial by Karl Kim was published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on September 3, 2017. Kim is the executive director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaiʻi and is a professor in the UH Mānoa…
