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UH to launch completely online AA degree program
This new program provides more flexibility for residents to reach the goal of earning a degree while working and raising their families.
Hawaiʻi keiki appear more susceptible to cat scratch disease
Doctors in the University of Hawaiʻi Pediatric Residency Program examined cases of cat scratch disease affecting children at one medical center over an eight-year period.
UH Hilo students use biotechnology methods to study invasive mosquitoes
Students are learning new cutting-edge technologies that can help them get jobs in fields like biotechnology and conservation.
UH in the News
- Hawaiian-language experts make their mark on the Solar System, Nature
- University of Hawaii online program caters to parents, full-time workers, Honolulu Star-Advertiser (subscription required)
- These are the least expensive community colleges in every state, Reader’s Digest
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First-in-the-world UH ethnomathematics for licensure approved
The ethnomathematics program at the College of Education is the culmination of more than 10 years of building the UH Ethnomathematics and STEM Institute.
Construction on Academy for Creative Media building at UH West Oʻahu begins
Work on the $33.3 million, two-story building is scheduled for substantial completion in June 2020.
Hawaiian students learn, name astronomical discoveries
Hawaiʻi is the first place in the world to weave traditional indigenous practices into the process of officially naming astronomical discoveries.
- UH partnership saves residents $24M in interstate tuition fees
- UH Hilo students use biotechnology methods to study invasive mosquitoes
- UH to launch completely online AA degree program
- First-in-the-world UH ethnomathematics program approved by Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board
- Construction on Academy for Creative Media building at UH West Oʻahu begins
To prevent chronic disease in Hawaiʻi, researchers look to Albania
Researchers study how Albania is preventing chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease to learn how it can be applied in Hawaiʻi.
Study links climate change to increased risk of Hawaiʻi wildfires
The first study linking climate change to an increased probability of wildfires in Hawaiʻi also weighs the increased risks facing tropical regions around the world.
- Hawaiʻi keiki appear more susceptible to cat scratch disease
- Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute receives $1.3M to advance wave energy
- To prevent chronic disease in Hawaiʻi, researchers look to Albania
- Study finds Japanese Americans vulnerable to excess body fat
- Amphetamine users require more hospital resources, UH study
Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute receives $1.3M to advance wave energy
During the three-year innovative project, the team of researchers and engineers will develop a wave-energy converter concept culminating in a set of tests in a sophisticated mainland wave tank.
January 2019 anniversaries
The University of Hawaiʻi celebrates January 2019 faculty and staff anniversaries.
UH West Oʻahu’s Sumiye selected for prestigious filmmaking fellowship
Sumiye is one of a dozen filmmakers who were selected for the Firelight Documentary Lab fellowship.
Astronomer receives American Astronomical Society’s highest award
Ann Merchant Boesgaard, professor emerita of astronomy, is the 2019 recipient of the American Astronomical Society’s 2019 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship award.
Rainbow Shuttle launches new Parking Express Route
The new route makes the following stops: Zone 20 (lower parking structure) to Hawaiian Studies to Street Johns and then to Varney Circle.
Obama addresses emerging Asia-Pacific leaders at UH
The Obama Foundation convened 21 future leaders from 16 countries and territories across the Asia-Pacific region in a workshop at the East-West Center adjacent to the UH Mānoa campus.
- Dynamic sculpture, painting and more in Taking Flight exhibition at Windward CC
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ellis Henican discusses Media in the Age of Trump
- Join climate action plan meeting at UH Mānoa
- New renovations “A Game-Changer” for UH Mānoa Athletics
- Rainbow Shuttle launches new Parking Express Route
New renovations “A Game-Changer” for UH Mānoa Athletics
UH Mānoa celebrates the completed renovations of the baseball clubhouse and Gym 2.
Recommended UH Hilo chancellor brings vast expertise, experience
Bonnie Irwin will be recommended for approval as the next chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
Brennon Morioka recommended as new dean for the College of Engineering
His appointment would be effective April 1.
New members appointed to UH Board of Regents
Robert Frank Westerman (Kauaʻi County), Alapaki Nahale-a (Hawaiʻi County) and Kelli K.K. Acopan (Student Regent) join the board.
