St. Joseph High School students visit UH Hilo for workshop on global affairs
From a mini-Model United Nations simulation, to applying UN Sustainable Development Goals to local issues, the St. Joseph HS students were engaged from start to finish.
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2025 Peace Corps Week: UH Hilo hosted several events featuring former Peace Corps volunteers with ties to Hawaiʻi Island
Hawaiʻi Island was chosen as a primary training location for thousands of Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s and UH Hilo’s precursor — UH-Hilo Branch — contributed greatly to the training program.
2025 Peace Corps Week: Athlete and coach John Kleinschmidt served in Indonesia and Malawi as a sports advisor
John Kleinschmidt’s Peace Corps group was instrumental in running Malawi’s 1st and 2nd national meets. Only a few years after they left, the country sent track and field athletes to the 1972 Summer Olympics.
2025 Peace Corps Week: Jasmin Kiernan’s healthcare career started in 1975 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Southern Africa
Jasmin Sison Kiernan spent her time in Swaziland in the Lubombo District providing health screenings, oral exams, vaccines, and checking water sources for parasites.
2025 Peace Corps Week: Patrick Bryan sparked his fisheries career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Palau
Many years later, Patrick Bryan wrote a colorful, entertaining, and enlightening memoir about life in the Peace Corps. “In 1960’s Palau, life was raucous, laughable, and harrowing.”
