Caution urged as COVID numbers increase; Progress slow but continual at DKIST; Governor unveils plans for November furloughs; Impact-Bound promotes student civic engagement
Caution urged as COVID numbers increase
Can we still control an out of control COVID spread? We talked to epidemiologist Tim Brown, a tracking expert at the East West Center, who last week cautioned the public about how risky it is to be out and about with community spread now growing.
Progress slow but continual at DKIST
At the beginning of the year scientists testing out the optics of the world’s largest telescope on Haleakala published the first pictures of activity around the sun. The call for proposals for time on the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope had a deadline of last week Friday. Director of the project, Thomas Rimmele, says never in his wildest dreams did he imagine the response he got.
Governor unveils plans for November furloughs
Honolulu Civil Beat’s Reality Check highlights a fear of thousands of government workers. FURLOUGHS. It’s a story reporter Kevin Dayton has been tracking. Click here to read his story on CivilBeat.org.
Impact-Bound promotes student civic engagement
As in-person instruction was pushed back for many of Hawaii’s schools this week, more and more students are coming to grips with receiving their education online. For many, this has been an obstacle that educators across the state have been dealing with since the beginning of the pandemic. But for Robert Landau of Impact School - online was the plan all along. He spoke with The Conversation’s Harrison Patino on the program’s rollout and what it hopes to achieve.