17th International Education Week in Photos
By Kapiʻo News Staff Here is a look at the happenings of Kapi‘olani Community College’s 17th...
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Author: Lexus Yamashiro
WOTS: Store Discount
By Lexus Yamashiro | Staff Writer Word on the Street: If you got a 75 percent discount at...
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KCC Classes Provide Insight for Students Learning Styles, Pace
By Lexus Yamashiro | Staff Writer With registration for Spring 2018 courses now open, there are...
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Beau Fujii
Beau Fujii is a third-year student attending KCC majoring in Liberal Arts. Striving to transfer into the EMT program on campus, the 21-year-old is working toward his intended career of becoming a fireman. Being that firemen are typically the first responders for any type of emergency, Fujii is hoping to get into the EMT program to gain knowledge in the medical field so that he can use valuable information learned in his future career.
Fujii said that getting accepted into the EMT program is quite competitive, but he is confident that he will be able to get in and complete this one semester course to earn a certificate of completion.
In the meantime, Fujii is looking for volunteer work in hospitals and is looking to take medical classes as preparation. As a worker for the Office of Student Activities (OSA), Fujii wants to remind students that registration begins on Monday, Nov. 6. Fujii can provide help to students as a Hoʻokele Peer Mentor in ʻIliahi 231.
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Accounting Club Seeks Members for Student Night
By Lexus Yamashiro | Staff Writer As part of the curriculum for the Accounting 231B Capstone...
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Deadline for Class Withdrawals Ends Soon
By Lexus Yamashiro | Staff Writer By Monday, Oct. 30, the deadline for students to either withdraw...
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WOTS: Scariest Movie
By Lexus Yamashiro | Staff Writer Word on the Street: What was the scariest movie you have watched...
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KCC Parents Program Supports Student Families
By Lexus Yamashiro | Staff Writer Nanette Fritz recalled the time when she took Math 75X during...
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Erika MatsuiErika Matsui is a 35-year-old first-year Natural Science/Biology major from Tagimi, Japan (Gifu Prefecture). Before moving to Hawai'i, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design and began work as an aesthetician and hair stylist. Matsui, whose father was previously a guest geophysics researcher at UH-Mānoa, decided to continue her studies here, beginning at KCC. “I am appreciative and glad to be a student at KCC," Matsui said, "and my fathers' peers recommended I begin here. ... The instructors offer a better atmosphere for learning, they told me." Working as an aesthetician and hair stylist, Matsui became concerned with only being able to treat the symptoms of the chronic skin disease and alopecia. She wants to do more and be able to treat the underlying cause of the symptoms, to find a cure. “Observing my father, how he studied and how he approached his research, he inspired me to want to be a biomedical researcher ... so that I can really help these people," she said. Matsui is currently working on her prerequisites so that she can begin her graduate studies at UH Mānoa and to eventually earn a doctorate in either Microbiology or Molecular Biology and Bio-engineering.
