The Historic Hawaii Foundation will honor architecture professor Spencer Leineweber today with the Frank Haines Award for achievement in preserving significant historic and cultural places of Hawaii.
Leineweber is a professor and director of graduate programs at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Architecture. She has 30 years of experience in architecture and historic preservation. She was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1996 and was the 2011 president of the 700-member American Institute of Architects Hono-lulu.
Marshall Design Studio LLC will also be recognized at the foundation’s 39th annual Preservation Honor Awards ceremony at Blaisdell Center.
Marshall Design is receiving a Preservation Award for its rehabilitation of a 1940s Wailuku plantation home. The prestigious award recognizes the Maui-based interior design and architecture firm for exemplary achievement in historic preservation.
The home is in the Old Sand Hills neighborhood of Wailuku, which has a high density of middle-class homes built during the 1930s and ’40s.It was the long-time family home of Masa and Florence Shimoda, who operated Hali‘imaile General Store before it became a restaurant.
Many of the home’s features were preserved, including the double hung wood sash windows and the original window and door hardware of solid brass.
For more information, go to www.historichawaii.org, email awards@historic-hawaii.org or call 523-2900.
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» ‘Iolani School took first place in the Leibniz (large teams) and junior varsity divisions in the Oahu Mathematics League 2013 season, the league announced.
Saint Louis School won the Newton division (small teams). Punahou was named most improved team in the varsity division, Mid-Pacific Institute was most improved in the junior varsity division and Radford High was most improved in the Newton division.
More than 300 students competed in seven math competitions from September through April. The final competition was April 20 at Kamehameha Schools, where 27 public and private high schools competed.
At each meet, students compete in 10-minute quizzes involving algebra, geometry, trigonometry, algebra II and analytic geometry.
Here are the team standings:
Leibniz division: 1. ‘Iolani; 2. Punahou; 3. Kamehameha; 4. McKinley; 5. Hawaii Baptist.
Newton division: 1. Saint Louis; 2. Kaiser; 3. Radford; 4. Hanalani; 5. Farrington.
Junior varsity: 1. ‘Iolani; 2. Punahou; 3. McKinley; 4. Kamehameha; 5. Radford.
» The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named three federal agencies in Hawaii as winners in the EPA’s Federal Green Challenge Program.
The U.S. Postal Service Honolulu Processing and Distribution Center achieved a 70.7 percent recycling rate, increasing the amount recycled by 400 tons in the past year, a news release said.
The Honolulu office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development decreased its staff’s car commuting by more than 5 percent, creating a tracking tool to analyze transportation methods.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, in conjunction with the University of Hawaii at Hilo, developed an employee survey to ascertain energy knowledge, views and habits. As a result, informational signs and stickers were put up and energy meters were added to some equipment.
» University of Hawaii Manoa assistant professor Jelena Maricic has received an Early Career Research Program award from theU.S. Department of Energy to search for a new type of elementary particle.
The award provides $750,000 in funding over five years.
Mariciccame toUH in 2012from the Drexel University in Pennsylvania.She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Belgrade and her doctorate in physics from UH Manoa in 2005.
Maricic’s research was selected for funding by the Office of High Energy Physics and the department’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
