News from the Social Science Research Institute
Tomorrow! 📢 Do you have thoughts on how to improve compensation and benefits for postdocs? NIH wants to hear from you! Join us at the public virtual NIH listening session on March 17: https://t.co/Ew0SFcIQF5
WATCH | Carl Bonham discusses the collapse of two major mainland banks and reassures consumers about the strength of local banks.

Hawaii economist discusses collapse of two major banks, strength of local banks
Hawaii economist Carl Bonham discusses the collapse of two major mainland banks and reassures consumers about the strength of local banks.
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Please join us on Thursday, 4/20 from 1 pm at Sakamaki C204B for a Diversity Colloquium presentation by Dr. Sarah Townsend titled "Building a Culture of Inclusion at School and Work."
UH GEO lecture TODAY, Mar 9 @ 12p in 443 Saunders - "Systemic Bias in Science and a Program to Produce More Just and Equitable Research," by Sarah Rebolloso McCullough, Assoc. Director of the Feminist Research Institute & Director of the Environmental Fellows program at UC Davis.
UH GEO public lecture this Thursday, Feb. 16 @ 12pm in 443 Saunders - "Rendering water governance technical in the Mekong River Basin," by Dr. Ming Li Yong, Fellow at the East-West Center (@EastWestCenter). Dr. Yong's bio here: https://t.co/Sctk1rIywn
Post-docs – and those of you who interact and work with post-docs: @NIH wants to hear from you! 💭
RFI deadline is 4/14:

Share Your Thoughts on How to Re-envision NIH Supported Postdoctoral Training
Post-docs – and those of you who interact and work with post-docs: We want to hear from you!
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UH GEO capstone undergrads, grad student Kira Webster, and undergraduate chair and professor Dave Beilman went on a service learning trip at Kaʻala, working on invasive species control with Oahu Army Natural Resources Program this past Mon., Feb. 13th.
COVID-19 Workplace Mitigation Strategies and Employee Leave Policies Implemented during the Height of the Pandemic, United States, Fall 2020 and 2021 #mdpiijerph via @IJERPH_MDPI

COVID-19 Workplace Mitigation Strategies and Employee Leave Policies Implemented during the Height of the Pandemic, United States, Fall 2020 and 2021
COVID-19 workplace mitigation strategies implemented within US businesses have been effective at preventing disease and ...
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UH GEO Professor Reece Jones (@ReeceJonesUH).was interviewed in @LongRoadMag on the U.S. Border Patrol and his latest book, Nobody is Protected, https://t.co/4iXd7hL12H.
Join us Wednesday, October 19 at 11 am Hawai‘i time for our next Careers in Peacebuilding Talk Story Series on "Why I Embraced Being A Third Culture Kid" with Dr. Ann Auman and moderated by Dr. Maya Soetoro
Register at https://t.co/0s5tWcg6l7
#MatsunagaInstitute #WhatMovesYou
New research by #geog_uhm’s Renee Setter reveals that climate change impacts on coral reefs ecosystems are worse than previously anticipated. Half of world’s reefs may be gone by 2035 due to multiple stressors. ➡️https://t.co/z5P71DnLFi #css_uhmanoa #UHManoa #HIMBFranklinLab
Great to see UHM Anthro prof @nativemanremade Ty Tengan featured on @wearehpr!

Native Hawaiian activists stopped military bombing on Kahoʻolawe 32 years ago
Thirty-two years ago this month, the U.S. government stopped a practice it had been conducting since late 1941: th...
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Thursday, October 6 at 11 am Hawai‘i time for our Advocacy for Social Justice Talk Story Series on "How A Mangrove Can Help A Community" with Mirali Shukla and moderated By José Barzola.
RSVP at https://t.co/PYgVX0gNEV
#MatsunagaInstitute #WhatMovesYou #Mangrove #Mozambique
Come join the "Slice of PI-CASC" seminar series on October 4! Featured speaker Dr. Leah Bremer will discuss topics in "supporting community-based agroforestry restoration in a changing climate." Details & registration at: https://t.co/U6Lbi1N1Fk
Who is the first woman appointed to the Palau Economic Advisory Group? It’s our own CSS Dean Denise Eby Konan #css_uhmanoa

UH Mānoa College of Social Sciences dean named to Palau advisory group | University of Hawaiʻi System News
A noted international trade economist, Konan has worked extensively in the Pacific and Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
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More than $200K supports creation of Haunani-Kay Trask biography - Trask was one of the most influential Native Hawaiian scholars of the 20th century ➡️ https://t.co/4LUGWreP0b
How important is health as an investment or a consumption good? In this paper, we calibrated a Grossman model in OLG setting to match key features of the US economy. Health matters more as an investment good early in life but become a consumption good later in life. 1/N
UH Geography & Environment capstone students and Professor Dave Beilman's research and restoration work on Kahoʻolawe in Spring 2022 is featured in the latest @CSS_UH newsletter, https://t.co/rhWMaAxhDT
Join Dr. Karl Kim. from @uhmanoa next week and learn about
research that identified ten takeaways from the pandemic for
transportation planners. Webinar hosted by Caltrans. https://t.co/X202TKc5Wb
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi
Ecology & Society: Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi
Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are increasingly recognized as important conservation targets with linked ecological...
ecologyandsociety.org
UHERO's Carl Bonham said summer 2022 was pricey for travelers, but travel demand will fade as the month of August closes out.

Hawaii travel prices expected to drop in coming months
Summer is coming to a close, which means children are back in a school and demand for travel is dropping.
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