M.Ed. students explore Mars

The HPU Teacher Education Program (TEP), in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Bishop Museum, held a week-long workshop July 14-18 for students pursuing their Masters in Secondary Education and for licensed teachers who mentor the students. Ten participants, two-thirds of whom were graduate students, learned about the red planet and how to integrate what they had learned into teaching science, math, and technology in the classroom.[More]

HPU alumna directs beauty pageant

Eleven girls from across Hawai’i gathered on O‘ahu the week before Labor Day to participate in the Miss Young International USA Beauty Pageant at the Cirque Hawai‘i in Waikiki. The event, a sister pageant to the Miss International, the third largest in the world, was produced by Alicia Michioka Jones, a 2002 HPU graduate with a B.A. in Advertising and Journalism. Jones, who resurrected the pageant after a 20-year hiatus in the islands, said that one of the most rewarding aspects of being the pageant director was “working with the girls, seeing them achieve goals, and seeing them, through the process, grow as individuals.”[More]