Category: Featured Events

Casual and business portraits of four plenary speakers, and the title of the conference: "Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in the Humanities." Image of shoreline in the background.

Photo essay: International conference on the humanities hosted by UH Hilo

Posted on June 28, 2025January 9, 2026 by Staff

The international conference was infused with the university’s values as a multicultural, community-building, and Indigenous-serving academic institution.

Chancellor and guest in hallway. Guest wears a lei.

Kuleana and Community: UH Hilo launches weekly talk story events, open to the public

Posted on September 6, 2024January 5, 2026 by Staff

“Kuleana and Community Weekly Talk Story: Building Community Through Conversation,” every Friday through Nov. 15, university ʻohana and public are invited.

Screenshot from video of student making lei.

UH Hilo History Club asks for lāʻi and lei donations for project honoring leprosy patients of Kalaupapa

Posted on June 21, 2023December 23, 2025 by Staff

On Sunday, June 25, 2023, the group will be gathering to make more tī-leaf lei for the project at 1:00 to 5:00p.m. on the lānai at Kīpuka Native Hawaiian Student Center.

Group of students stand in front of rainbow colored mural on the library lānai. The students are holding signs made for the upcoming parade: "I Heart Lesbians," "Gay Liberation," "Protect Trans Kids," and others.

Pride Month: Student club Pride Hilo preps for upcoming Hawai‘i Island LGBTQ+ Pride Parade and Festival, June 24

Posted on June 8, 2023January 11, 2026 by Staff

UH Hilo students and staff are welcome to fill out the volunteer form and walk with the student club Pride Hilo in the parade and/or help table at the festival.

Professor and two students next to display in the library.

UH Hilo anthropology class creates museum quality exhibit at Mookini Library, on view through June 8

Posted on May 17, 2023December 23, 2025 by Staff

Exhibit connects UH Hilo community to the anthropology dept. collections, which consist of archaeological, anthropological, and historical materials excavated and collected since the 1950s.

Large open-air venue with curved rooftop, graduates in red are seated, family and friends in bleachers.

UH Hilo 2023 Spring Commencement coming up May 13, drama professor and alumna Justina Mattos to keynote

Posted on May 4, 2023December 22, 2025 by Staff

500 students have petitioned for degrees and/or certificates and for various post-graduate credentials, including the university’s first graduates of the aeronautical sciences program.

At left is Aunty Edith sitting with pahu. At right are her two daughters Pua and Nalani dancing. They are at Halemaumau crater in the background.

Community invited to celebrate the life and legacy of Edith Kanaka‘ole, May 6, UH Hilo campus

Posted on May 1, 2023December 22, 2025 by Staff

Public is invited to come celebrate Aunty Edith’s life and legacy: Saturday, May 6, 2023, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Performing Arts Center, and then 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Edith Kanaka‘ole Hall, UH Hilo campus.

Commemorative quarter with image of Edith Kanakaʻole. Words: United States Mint, American Women Quarters Program Edith Kanakaʻole Quarter Event. Red, white and blue colors.

U.S. Mint announces May 6 Hilo event to celebrate release of Edith Kanakaʻole Quarter

Posted on April 13, 2023December 22, 2025 by Staff

A commemorative quarter honoring former UH instructor and late legendary kumu hula Edith Kanaka‘ole (1913–1979) was released into circulation in March by the U.S. Mint.