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MEDIA RELEASE A student team from the University of Hawaii at Hilo recently won the prestigious 2013 U.S. Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship held in San Jose, California. The team now heads to St. Petersburg, Russia for the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July. Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s premier student technology competition that honors technology innovations [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard will address the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s spring commencement as keynote speaker beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 11 at Edith Kanakaole Stadium. Students have petitioned for a total of 765 degrees and/or certificates from the colleges of Arts and Sciences (460), Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Two Hawaii Community College professors and a longtime UH Hilo employee have been named 2013 Educators of the Year by the Native Hawaiian Education Association, one of the most prestigious awards in Hawaiian education. Dr. Taupouri Tangaro, an associate professor and the chairman of the humanities department at HawCC; Kekuhi Kanae Kanahele KealiikanakaoleoHaililani, [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE University of Hawaii at Hilo Athletic Director Dexter Irvin has announced that men’s basketball head coach Jeff Law will not be returning to the Vulcan bench after completing his 15th season. Law has accepted a position at former Pacific West Conference institution Western New Mexico University. “Every assistant coach looks for that break [...]

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Straney: ‘His vision was that each neighbor island would harbor a center of excellence, that every island should have its own specialty’

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MEDIA RELEASE The community is welcome to join in the festivities of the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s 13th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet, held on Friday Feb. 22, 2013 at the UH Hilo Campus Center starting at 5 p.m. Sponsored by the University’s Alumni and Friends Association, this signature event includes entertainment, [...]

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The University of Hawaii at Hilo Student Athlete Advisory Committee will host a “Senior Prom” for seniors 60-years-and-older on Sunday, February 24 in the UH Hilo gymnasium.

Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii” is the theme for this free event which begins at 5:30 p.m.

“This is a great opportunity for the community to meet and mingle with athletes on a new level,” UH Hilo SAAC President Amanda Nazario said. “It’s a great tradition to start.

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MEDIA RELEASE The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Student Health and Wellness Programs recently received renewal of a three-year grant award of $282,500 to support Student Medical Services in its efforts to provide the community with a Family Planning Clinic (FPC). The FPC was established in 1993 with a Title X grant from the Office [...]

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University of Hawai`i President MRC Greenwood today approved the selection of Jerry Chang, former Hawai`i state representative, as the new Director of University Relations at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo. Chang succeeds Gerald De Mello, who retired on December 31, 2012 after serving 21 years in that position. Chang’s appointment begins January 11, 2013.

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MEDIA RELEASE A University of Hawaii at Hilo professor has discovered evidence that the ancestors of East Polynesians, including Hawaiians, once lived on remote Polynesian Outlier atolls. Dr. William H. Wilson, a professor with Ka Haka Ula O Keelikolani College of Hawaiian Language, has published a study of 73 unique linguistic changes distinctive of East [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Dwight Y. Takamine, state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations director, delivers the keynote address at the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s fall commencement at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 at the UH Hilo New Gym. Undergraduate students have petitioned for a total of 244 degrees and/or certificates from the College of Arts [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy Dean John Pezzuto has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The announcement was formally made in the AAAS News & Notes section of the Nov. 30, 2012 issue of Science. Pezzuto was honored “for distinguished service in [...]

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