Photos and video: UH Hilo 2025 Fall Commencement

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Approximately 165 students petitioned for degrees and/or certificates and for various post-graduate credentials. Students speaker was Danielle Murphy.

Outdoors under a large tree canopy, two graduates in lei up to their ears. One has a "license plate" tag around her neck with "KEALOHI," the other "KEA." One holds flowers up in the air, the other her cap.
Two UH Hilo graduates celebrate Fall Commencement on Dec. 20, 2025. (Photo: Tracey Niimi)

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo celebrated summer and fall graduates at 2025 Fall Commencement, Dec. 20, on campus at the Vulcan Gymnasium. (Watch entire event at right.)

Approximately 165 students petitioned for degrees representing the College of Arts and Sciences; Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikolani College of Hawaiian Language; College of Business and Economics; College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management; College of Natural and Health Sciences; and the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy.

Student speaker was Danielle Murphy (Bachelor of Arts Sociology).

Photos by Tracey Niimi, click/tap for full size.

Large family poses for photo, graduate has lots of lei.

Photos by Tracey Niimi, UH Hilo alumnus and former student support specialist at the university’s pharmacy college.

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