About

Keaohou features profiles of University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo faculty who are conducting applied research and scholarly activity of benefit to the people of Hawaiʻi Island, the state, and beyond.

The name Keaohou

The Hanakahi Council, an advocacy group for Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) at UH Hilo, named this website Keaohou.

Hou means new, fresh, recent, and ao means light, day, daylight, dawn; to dawn, grow light; enlightened; to regain consciousness. Keaohou literally translates to new enlightenment, new dawning, or new consciousness, and loosely translates to new knowledge. The word ao also can be closely viewed with the word aʻo (with the addition of an ʻokina or glottal stop), the same word for teaching and learning in Hawaiian. It is because of these many layers of meaning that the council chose the name Keaohou to describe the research and scholarly activity at UH Hilo.

Contact

Keaohou, a project of the UH Hilo Research Office and the Office of the Chancellor, was launched in May of 2012 and revived in 2024 after a long hiatus.

For more information about site administration or content, contact Susan Enright, public information specialist, Office of the Chancellor.