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12 Sunday, March 19, 2017 Hawaii Tribune-Herald Maunakea Astronomy Ohana celebrates the 54th Merrie Monarch Festival Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope East Asian Observatory Gemini Observatory ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Maunakea Visitor Information Station NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Pacifi c International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) Smithsonian Submillimeter Array Subaru Telescope Thirty Meter Telescope UKIRT University of Hawai‘i at Hilo University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy Very Long Baseline Array W.M. Keck Observatory Visit our Website: mkaoc.org • Like us on Facebook Celebrating the Merrie Monarch King Kal–akaua–An Astronomy Enthusiast Shop These Fine Merchants! Corner of Kilauea ave. & KeKuanaoa St. PerSonal ServiCeS Balancing Monkey Yoga Center Diet Center Jin Ju Salon LV Nails Tram’s Day Spa retail Diva’s Boutique Island Naturals Lanky’s Pastries Sole Comfort The Orient Connection Yi Qin’s Gifts reStaurantS Happy Valley Seafood Hawaiian Brain Freeze Kamana Indian Kitchen Restaurant Miwa Sunlight Café finanCial Edward Jones Hawaii First Community Resource Center Hawaii First Federal Credit Union Liberty Tax ServiCeS Aloha Care Bayada Home Health Care Hilo AC & Refrigeration Hilo Family Dental - Bay Clinic Institute of Acupuncture Keiki Dental Clinic Longs Pharmacy National Fire Protection Native Nations Education Foundation Optical Dispensers UNIVERSITY TOWN hall learning,” Ma said. Some of the building’s features will include: • Breakout rooms for small-group instruction. Rooms will allow for an 85-student class to break into smaller learning groups. They also will be available as student studying space. • Compounding lab space. A place for students to learn how to construe different drug formulations such as capsules, pills, creams, gels and ointments. • Mock pharmacy and institutional pharmacy space. A mock pharmacy simulates a community pharmacy setup. An institutional pharmacy simulates a hospital pharmacy setup and includes various drug distribution technology and intravenous preparation hoods, Ma said. • Space with audio and visual capability, which also would allow for remote observation or off-island remote group work. Ma said that will especially be important for inter-professional collaboration — for example, with nursing, medicine, social work and public health programs. • Mannequin simulation. This is “high technology,” Ma said, in which students use adult-size dummies to simulate real-life patient situations. Mannequins are operated by computers and programmed for changes in vital signs via a simulation technician, Ma said, and they can even speak. • Two 120-student lecture halls and multiple seminar rooms. • Administrative space. Administrative offices are currently located off-campus in a county annex near Rainbow Falls. • On-site portables currently used as classrooms will be redesigned to house research labs once the new building opens. (The pharmacy school currently conducts research off-site at old Department of Agriculture buildings past the Panaewa Zoo.) Original building plans called for research labs to also be located in the new building, but those plans were ultimately scaled back to lower the cost. Accreditation The college is also seeking an extension of its accreditation status from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, which is up for renewal this year. Ma said she is “very confident” status will be extended, and a visit this month will determine for just how long. The decision is ultimately up to the council, which will meet to consider the review in June. Ma said the new building’s on-time progress should bode well during the visit. “(A permanent building) is really important to PHARMACY From page 11 Image courtesy Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy A rendering of the new pharmacy school building. See PHARMACY Page 13


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