UH pairs its nationally recognized startup accelerator with entrepreneurship program
The University of Hawaiʻi revamps its startup accelerator and calls it UH Ventures Accelerator.
Fewer years of healthy life for Native Hawaiians, UH study finds
New findings show that Native Hawaiians in Hawaiʻi have a shorter life expectancy and spend fewer years in good health.
UH Hilo aquaculture center partners with Honolulu CC to improve water quality at Sand Island
UH Hilo aquaculture center partners with Honolulu CC, Polynesian Voyaging Society to improve water quality with oysters.
UH researchers assist Navy in developing drone deliveries to subs at sea
For the first time ever, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivered supplies to an underway submarine, the USS Hawaiʻi, a mile off the coast of Oʻahu.
$1M to UH and collaborators to develop web-based research tool
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Hawaiʻi’s Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) and its collaborators $1 million to develop a web-based research tool.
Study finds ‘America First’ policy actually spurs minority-owned U.S. firms
UH Hilo Assistant Professor Todd M. Inouye and collaborators find the America First” policy encourages minority entrepreneurs to activate their diaspora networks in order to do more business abroad.
Harmful staph, bacteria in Hilo Bay increase with rainfall runoff
A team of scientists from the UH Hilo has published a paper on how rainfall-driven runoff increases concentrations of harmful bacteria in Hilo Bay.
UH Cancer Center receives $2M to study genetic risk factors to environmental toxins
UH Cancer Center researchers Michele Carbone and Haining Yang were awarded the grant, over a three-year period, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
UH data science institute awarded $1M National Science Foundation grant
The award allows the university to acquire and deploy a new community computer cluster in support of computational and data-intensive research for the 10-campus system.
Easy-to-use optical method invented to help disperse particles
Yi Zuo, a UH Mānoa professor, has invented a groundbreaking method that allows for easy determination of the surface free energy of particles as a quantitative measure of particle hydrophobicity.
