Video! UH Hilo presents 2026 Valentine Vignettes: “Lookin’ for Love”
32 minutes of fun with UH Hilo performing arts students. A little Valentine treat! Featuring seven short vignettes to sweeten your day.
Category: Events
Black History Month film series underway at UH Hilo with theme “Black Trailblazers in Sport”
Film series will feature prominent Black figures in sport who broke down barriers that continue to benefit all athletes. A film will be shown each Wednesday during February, open to the public.
UH Hilo welcomes hundreds of keiki for 2026 Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Science Day
The free community event, on hiatus since the pandemic, celebrates the legacy of Hawaiʻi’s first astronaut with STEM acitivites, workshops, and a NASA star!
Chancellor’s tribute to UH Hilo award-winning leader, Kaʻiu Kimura: “She leads with kindness”
The Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce bestowed the 2026 Athena Leadership Award to the director of UH Hilo’s Hawaiian language college at a luncheon this week.
Celebrating keiki literacy: UH Hilo Chancellor Irwin, alumna Valdeane Odachi, and Always Dream nonprofit
Founded by Olympic gold medalist and children’s author Kristi Yamaguchi, the nonprofit provides books for keiki in 19 schools, the latest is Naʻalehu Elementary.
UH Hilo welcomes first cohort to new online track to doctor of pharmacy degree
The UH Hilo pharmacy college launched a new distance learning track this month for the doctor of pharmacy degree, designed for students who work or have other personal or professional responsibilities.
Kalaupapa Month: UH Hilo honors and remembers significant episode in Hawaiʻi’s history with exhibits, film showings, and featured books
Between 1866 and 1969 approximately 8,000 people were separated from their families, most exiled to the Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai. 90% were were Kānaka ʻŌiwi.
Photos: UH Hilo Spring 2026 New Student Orientation is underway!
Starting yesterday through next week’s Vulcan ʻOhana Week of Welcome (the first week of instruction), orientation leaders are welcoming the university’s newcomers, showing them around campus and town.
