Students of the John A. Burns School of Medicine have assembled health screenings and information from all over Oʻahu to offer at this year’s “Celebrate Health” Community Health Fair from 12-3 p.m. this Friday, January 9.

Roundtable discussions for the University of Hawaiʻi Faculty of African Descent’s Third Biennial Winter Institute for Black Studies are free and open to the public 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2009 at the Hawai’i Imin Conference Center adjacent to the UH Mānoa campus.

Four University of Hawaiʻi campuses have commencement exercises in December 2008. Two represent milestones.

The University of Hawai’i campuses celebrate the holidays with festive events.

An extraordinary exhibition of an unmatched collection, Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery.

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The University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Kennedy Theatre presentation of Macbeth is a multi-cultural/multi-lingual performance designed to shatter preconceived notions about Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of murder and ambition.

Award-winning artist Whitfield Lovell will give a series of slide lectures on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, including at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Kapiʻolani Community College’s Koa Gallery presents Local Motives, an exhibit exploring what it means to be local in Hawaiʻi.

University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa Department of Art and Art History’s glass program presents a collective of student work highlighting an array of techniques including blown, kiln formed and hot cast glass.

The Sea Grant Hanauma Bay Education program, in partnership with the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaiʻi (B.E.A.C.H.), hosts a series of lectures about the pervasive problem of marine debris.