Media Coverage & Press Releases
27 Nov Pacific Council: “Facing Common Diseases as a Global Health Challenge”
Global health initiatives and dollars tend to focus heavily on infectious diseases such as malaria, AIDs, polio, and tuberculosis. Major goals of the Gates Foundation, for example, are to focus on childhood health and eradicate malaria and polio. At the same time, common, potentially hereditary...
11 Aug Honolulu Star Adviser: Korean firm buys land under Walgreens store
By Andrew Gomes August 11, 2017 A Korean real estate investment firm has paid $42.3 million to become the landlord for a flagship Walgreens store in Honolulu. Haeri Hacienda Plaza LLC is the new owner of land under the store at the corner of Kapiolani Boulevard and Keeaumoku Street,...
16 Jun Pasadena Independent: Pasadena Philanthropist Donates Matching Funds Of $500,000 To Establish Endowment For Operation Walk
Carolyn Miller, Pasadena area philanthropist and civic leader, will donate up to $500,000 in matching funds to Operation Walk, a Los Angeles-based non-profit medical humanitarian organization that provides joint replacement surgeries to people in need in the United States and internationally. [Read on Pasadena Independent]...
24 Feb Truthdig to publish series on successes and struggles of women behind the camera by film critic Carrie Rickey
-- Reveals Women Directors were Cinema’s Founding Mothers but Shut Out of Hollywood’s Old Boys Club today LOS ANGELES, February 24, 2017 -- Another Oscar weekend and no female filmmakers are nominated for director and none of the ten nominated screenplays have a female writer, points...