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Ka Wai Ola: Honors, awards and accolades

As of fall 2025, 12,618 Native Hawaiians are enrolled across the UH System.

Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law celebrates 20 years of education, scholarship and community advocacy.

Camille A. Nelson has been named the 2025 recipient of the Dr. Alice A. Huffman “Hats Off” Award of Excellence.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, co-leader of Te Pāti Māori and a member of New Zealand’s Parliament.

Archivists from 35 countries convened at UH to explore the impacts of climate change on cultural preservation.

The cohort will work to advance long-term, meaningful change in Hawaiʻi.

The rankings are solely based on its surveys of college students about their schools.

UH law graduate Danicole Ramos and the Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic are leading efforts to bring deported U.S. veteran Sae Joon Park back home.

The Soifer Lecture Series launched in March and featured Rutgers’ Professor Ellen Goodman.

UH law student Benjamin Leider was named one of The National Jurist’s 2025 Law Students of the Year.