ʻImiloa to host cultural enrichment programs to celebrate Merrie Monarch Festival
‘Imiloa Astronomy Center will host a musical performance by UH Hilo’s own Kainani Kahaunaele, and pūpū jewelry and lei making workshops, April 20-22.
Category: ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center
Presentations and events at ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center.
Weekly Newsletter for Faculty and Staff, April 19, 2022
Featured in this week’s issue of Ha‘ilono o UH Hilo (News of UH Hilo): Jim Mike, Pila Wilson, Larry Kimura, and Sheldon Rosa.
Video: They’re alive! With animatronics, dinosaurs come to life at ‘Imiloa; exhibit extended to April 15
It’s a delightful surprise to visitors when they discover the gigantic dinosaurs on exhibit are not statues, they are animatronics with motion sensors and sound. It’s as if they are alive!
Weekly Newsletter for Faculty and Staff, March 8, 2022
Featured in this week’s issue of Ha‘ilono o UH Hilo (News of UH Hilo): Done Hemmes, Miriam Mobley Smith, Vanessa Zepeda, Sandra Dafincescu, Sofia Ferreira, Hyung Won Jeon, Mio Kamioka, Chloe Molou, Setsuko Ned, Minneh Oyas, Frank Kuo, David Kaneshiro, and Kamalei Purdy.
K. L. Chock Trust supports ‘Imiloa gardens, now named Koon Leong and Bertha Luke Chock Garden
ʻImiloa Astronomy Center, an educational outreach facility at UH Hilo, features an award-winning landscape of endemic, indigenous, and Polynesian-introduced plants.
Chancellor Irwin’s Remarks at 2022 Spring Welcome
The action plan has launched, and staff and faculty across the campus have volunteered to sponsor or collaborate on the action items, each of which will help us forward our goals of equity, ‘āina- and community-based education, and a healthy and vibrant campus ‘ohana.
Doug Simons: Hawai‘i astronomy impacts felt from classrooms to outer space
In presentation to the UH Board of Regents, Doug Simons highlights UH Hilo ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s Hawaiian language-based program, A Hua He Inoa.
Creating balance between rapid innovation and Indigenous knowledge, focus of free virtual conference, Nov. 15-17
Ka‘iu Kimura, executive director of ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center at UH Hilo, will lead the conference’s first session. Larry Kimura, associate professor at UH Hilo’s College of Hawaiian Language, will discuss similarities between ancestral knowledge and modern astronomy.
