ʻAʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi │ One learns from many sources │ A web publication from the Office of the Chancellor, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
The $2,500 first place prize was awarded to a team of four students from UH Hilo and Hawai‘i Community College who designed an app that connects community members with skills and materials to rebuild homes that were lost during the 2018 lava flow.
Local high school students enrolled in UH Hilo Upward Bound program scientifically monitored the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano.
During the eruption, members of the UH Hilo drone team provided data to Civil Defense to aid in a range of ways, such as helping residents to recoup losses.
Chef Alan Wong teamed up with UH Hilo to host the benefit.
Now that the lava flow is entering the ocean at Kapoho Bay, researchers are using autonomous ocean robots, an unmanned technology, to capture live ocean data close to the entry area.
UH Hilo has been analyzing lava flow samples from Kīlauea since 2013 but the composition barely changed. Then came May 2018 and a dramatic change.
Katherine Mulliken works as a geologist for the Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, a partner of the Alaska Volcano Observatory, but was sent back home to help with the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory response to the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.
UH Hilo professors, scientists and students are providing valuable expertise and resources on multiple fronts, helping government officials assess the hazards to the public and its personnel, and decide where and how to respond.
UH Hilo agriculture alum Jay Carpio appointed to Board of Land and Natural Resources
In memoriam: Alumna, educator, cultural leader, Kumu Hula Nālani Kanakaʻole
Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce honors UH Hilo’s Kaʻiu Kimura with 2026 Athena Leadership Award
UH Hilo aeronautical science alumna Aislynn Mandaloniz, first female from program to receive pilot’s license, reaches new heights
UH Hilo sociology/English alum Johann Kuipers says student exchange was a major turning point in his life
At UN annual meeting on human rights, UH Hilo poli-sci alumna Tamelia Rang represents her Marshall Islands homeland
Battle to beat coconut rhinoceros beetle: UH Hilo researchers conduct aerial survey in Kona