Reading time: 2minutes Patsy Dung was hired by UH women’s athletic director Donnis Thompson in 1974 to lead the university’s newly established women’s basketball program.
Reading time: 3minutes Emmeline Tomimbang Burns, a trailblazer in the Filipino community and a pioneer in radio and television in Hawaiʻi, died on February 19.
Reading time: 5minutes A number of UH’s most respected educators, researchers, graduates and supporters passed in 2023. Here are their In Memoriam stories, as each had a profound impact on the university, Hawaiʻi and the world.
Reading time: 2minutes Murli Manghnani, emeritus professor in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, died at the age of 87 in his home country of India on August 6.
Reading time: 4minutes Ryuzo Yanagimachi, whose pioneering contributions to reproductive biology and cloning have impacted millions of people and allowed families to grow, died on September 27, 2023 at the age of 95,