The College of Business and Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo held its Scholarships and Awards Celebration, “Plant Your Profession,” on April 26, 2024.
The event was held at Imiloa Astronomy Center and was attended by members of the local community, business leaders and supporters of the college.
The following students were honored:
SKAL International Tourism Scholarship
- Elijah Carigon
Taketa, Iwata, Hara & Associates, LLC, Endowed Excellence Scholarship
- lliana Keawe-Oliveira
James & Grace Arakaki Endowed Excellence Scholarship
- Rojean Bernal and Justin Yoshimura
Enterprise Rent-A-Car UH Hilo Scholarship
- Alicia Niro
Herbert Segawa Scholarship
- Madelyn Blandford, Torii Lynch, and Jessie Shimizu
Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce Endowed Scholarship
- Jing Feng and Jacelyn Lau
Fujimoto Family Endowed Scholarship
- Zariah Rivera
Aoyagi Family Scholarship
- Owen Fragas-Van Blarcom
Masami & Mae M. Aito Endowed Excellence Scholarship
- Sean Serville
Richard Taniguchi Endowed Scholarship Fund
- Azaria Evans and Jade Yamada
Hilo Rotary Club Foundation Scholarship
- Leiya Margareth Torrano
James P. D. Thropp Scholarship in Business
- Johnstin Kyle Andres
- Dylan Carvalho
- Kamakana Case
- Cayla Domnick
- Alfred Evangelista Jr.
- Feagaiga Fatu
- Jing Feng
- Annabelle Filelmar
- Summer Germano
- Rieshel Haili
- Annie Haglund
- Koki Hamada
- Andrew Holley
- Tuiteavaika Ickes
- Christian Isaiah Dominno
- Kyson Kaneko
- Iliana Keawe-Oliveira
- Elijah Kochenbach
- Jacelyn Lau
- Daniel Louie
- Khyren Luuloa
- Leiya Margareth Torrano
- Ronan Mcfarland
- Shiko Moore
- Alicia Niro
- Jacob Pearce
- Andrea Penno
- Catherine Quigley
- Jessie Shimizu
- Kiara Silva
- Taylor Still
- Kai Tanaka
- Lexie Tilton
- Brian Trujillo
- Michelle Untalan
- Makaila Untalan
- Kiana Vallente
- Kayliah Whittington-Ramirez
- Kaisen Yamasaki
College of Business and Economics Merit Scholarship
- Makita Arelong
- Takato Awai
- Koki Hamada
- Andrew Holley
- Pall Ingvason
- Shudai Ito
- Iliana Keawe-Olivera
- Leiya Margareth Torrano
- Tom Vorkastner
Betta Gamma Sigma Honorees
- Kiani Aburamen
- Madison Carvalho
- Skye Forsman
- Jaedon Kow
- Kyle Lenahan
- Yumi Nagayosh
- Jing Feng
- Nhu Phan
- Alexia Pantoja Solomon
- Tom Vorkastner