People – University of Hawaiʻi System News

Classics instructor’s paper on ancient Greek figurines wins national award

January 18, 2019

Chelsea Gardner, a classical archaeologist, received the award for her talk, “Mycenaean Kourotrophoi Figurines and Lateralization Bias.”

UH West Oʻahu’s Sumiye selected for prestigious filmmaking fellowship

January 17, 2019

Sumiye is one of a dozen filmmakers who were selected for the 18-month Firelight Documentary Lab fellowship and hopes to finish A Paradise Lost, her first feature-length documentary.

January 2019 anniversaries

January 11, 2019

The University of Hawaiʻi celebrates January 2019 faculty and staff anniversaries.

Rolovich contract extended through 2022

January 8, 2019

University of Hawaiʻi head football coach Nick Rolovich has received a two-year extension to his contract, running through the 2022 season.

Astronomer receives American Astronomical Society’s highest award

January 8, 2019

Ann Merchant Boesgaard, professor emerita of astronomy, is the 2019 recipient of the American Astronomical Society's 2019 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the organization's highest award.

UH West Oʻahu student rose from struggling immigrant to Academic Olympian

January 8, 2019

Leanne Villanueva earned an associate of arts degree from Leeward Community College through the Early College program and is now studying business administration at UH West Oʻahu.

Hawaiʻi island resident’s long and challenging road to graduation

December 19, 2018

Ten years after Keren Motonaga started attending UH Hilo, the 28 year old graduated in December 2018 with a bachelor of arts in Japanese studies and a minor in linguistics.