Education briefs
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$250,000 grant goes to UH project
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to Monique Chyba, assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, for a three-year project to develop an autonomous underwater vehicle for ocean exploration.
Chyba will work in a partnership with the mathematics department and the autonomous system laboratory in the Manoa College of Engineering. Chyba said she hopes the application of control theory to underwater vehicles will demonstrate the potential for successful collaborations between engineers and mathematicians.
Kalakaua school to mark 75th year
Former students and the public are invited to Saturday's celebration of the 75th anniversary of Kalakaua Middle School.
Food, entertainment and door prizes will be offered at the event, which runs from noon to 5 p.m.
Organizers are seeking volunteers and businesses that can donate to the event.
Waipahu principal gets national honor
Curtis Young, the principal at Honowai Elementary School in Waipahu, will be among 65 principals honored tomorrow in Washington, D.C., by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.
The association said that Young and the others have been named distinguished principals for being "models for school leadership throughout the nation and the world."
UH piano chief to perform recital
Ronald Morgan, head of the piano department at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, will perform works by Chopin, Morel and others tomorrow at Orvis Auditorium.
Morgan also will present an original composition by Marty Regan, a graduate student, at the recital, which is part of the 36th annual convention of the Hawai'i Music Teachers Association.
The recital starts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and students.
Physicist to discuss use for neutrinos
Internationally renowned physicist Hirotaka Sugawara will lecture today on the futuristic idea of harnessing neutrinos into beams that can locate and destroy nuclear weapons in a free talk beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Yukiyoshi Room at Krauss Hall at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
Sugawara holds the Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair in Arts & Sciences at the Manoa campus, and has held positions at Cornell University, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Chicago and Tsukuba University. In 1974, he joined KEK, the Japanese National Accelerator Laboratory, serving as director general from 1989-2003.
Sugawara's illustrated lecture, "Eliminating Nuclear Bombs with Neutrino Beams," is an advanced scenario in which high-energy neutrino beams can travel through the earth to a targeted location to melt nuclear weapons.
He will talk about the possibilities of such a system — and the science that could make it possible — to enforce worldwide nuclear disarmament.
