Hawaii Pacific University News

Part of Aqua's Monogram Hotel Collection, Volcano House is a historic property located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Cadet Raelynn Mapu receives a congratulatory hug from her aunt, Miss American Samoa Arielle Maloata.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports Matthew Liao-Troth has been tapped to help manage the private university.

Liao-Troth is interim provost and vice president of academic affairs at Georgia College State University, a public liberal arts university near Macon.

Hawaii Pacific University has named Matthew Liao-Troth its first provost to help manage and oversee the 7,500-student private university.

The wreckage of a small helicopter that crashed sits next to a car in downtown Honolulu Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

A small helicopter lost power and came crashing down on a busy downtown Honolulu street Wednesday afternoon, but no one was seriously injured, authorities said.

Mr. Gary Kukac, lecturer at Hawaii Pacific University, attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 4. HONOLULU-For Gary Kukac, lecturer at Hawaii Pacific University, an evening with Shen Yun Performing Arts brought much delight and insight.

During a break that semester, she went to visit her father in Australia and couldn't answer the waiter when he asked her, in English, how old she was, because she didn't understand the question.

"What would an enemy want to do to the people of Hawaii during war time?" asks Ken Schoolland, professor of economics at Hawaii Pacific University and scholar at the Grassroot Institute.