Recipients of the 2019 Women’s Campus Club grant awards totaling $13,315
UH Hilo – School of Nursing – $1,023 – Grant to purchase child mannequins and renewal course DVD required by American Heart Association for Basic Life Support courses. Contact: Patricia Hensley, Assistant Professor (hensleyp@hawaii.edu)
UH Manoa – Dept. of Anthropology/College of Social Sciences – $2,896 – Grant to acquire and transport 100 Hawaiian pohaku Ku’i’ai (poi pounders) (gifted to the department) for research, teaching and community outreach purposes. Contact: Mark Oxley, Archaeology Lab Manager (oxley@hawaii.edu)
UH Manoa – College of Natural Sciences, Student Academic Success Center – $2,806 – Grant to purchase metal tape embosser for labelling campus plants.
Contact: Roxanne Adams (adamsrox@hawaii.edu)
UH Manoa – School of Law Library – $2,000 – Partial grant to purchase supplies for archival and rare book preservation initiatives at the Law Library. Contact: Ellen-Rae Cachola, Evening Supervisor & Archives Manager (ellenrae@hawaii.edu)
Kapi’olani Community College – Dept. of Math & Sciences – $3,130 – Grant to fund a collaborative demonstration chemistry and horticultural project for both KCC and Hawaiian Studies students at UH Manoa. The chemistry portion will sustainably produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil. This grant funds a pump-diesel generator and related equipment. For the horticultural portion, the pump system will provide water for 5 mala (gardens) at UH Manoa. The mala will provide horticultural crops for Hawaiian medicine courses and ascertain best practices for pairing pumping technology with traditional methods of mala irrigation. Contact: Kathleen Ogata (ogatakat@hawaii.edu)
UH Manoa – Generation Action (an RIO) – $310 – Partial grant to purchase 2 Dual Condom Dispensers for use in the UH Residence halls. Generation Action will seek other funding to stock the dispensers with condoms. Generation Action exists to raise public awareness about reproductive health and to educate young people about sexual health and create lasting behavioral change. Contact: Jennifer Hsu (jhsu2@hawaii.edu)
UH Manoa – Hamilton Library – $150 – Grant to assist the exhibits committee in obtaining the exhibit, “A Voyage to Health”, which explores the history of Kaho’olawe and traditional Hawaiian voyaging, and the resurgence of Native Hawaiian medicine. The funds will be used to ship the exhibit to its next location, at UH Hilo and supplied for signage for the exhibit. Contacts: Margaret Joyce and Patricia Brandes, Co-chairs Exhibit Committee (brandesp@hawaii.edu)
Kapi’olani Community College – Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society – $1,000 – Partial grant to purchase sanitary dispensers in 5 campus restrooms (40 stalls). The KCC Honor Society wants to provide access to menstral supplies in restrooms, on a campus with 60% females students. Contact: Julie Rancilio, Associate Professosr of History and Phi Thete Kappa Honor Society Adviser (rancilio@hawaii.edu)