University of Hawaii Hilo News

The University of Hawai`i at Hiloa s graduating class heard two generational success stories during todaya s fall commencement held at the UH Hilo new gym.

Gladys Tong may be young, but the 18-year-old Singapore native will reach a milestone this week.

The University of Hawai i is pleased to announce that over 2,000 candidates will be receiving their undergraduate and advanced degrees from UH Manoa, UH West O ahu and UH Hilo during the fall 2009 commencement ceremonies.

The search for the successor to Chancellor Rose Tseng is beginning, with seven months remaining before she steps down.

Avis Kompkoff has had a hard life. She survived a 1964 earthquake and tsunami, but lost most of her family.

Hawai'i-Hilo won the major PacWest Conference volleyball postseason awards. Senior middle Fabiane Seben was named Player of the Year and coach Bruce Atkinson was named Coach of the Year.

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a $22.5 million design contract, part of $121 million in federal stimulus funds, to modernize and renovate the Prince Kuhio Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, agency officials said.

Our own Malika Dudley is from Hilo, a town that has recently been going back to its roots.

HONOLULU - Gov. Linda Lingle has released $203.1 million for renovations and new construction at University of Hawaii campuses throughout the state.

The University of Hawaii at Hilo hired a former Honolulu Police Department deputy chief and former corporate director of security for Outrigger Hotels as director of campus security at UH-Hilo. Warren J. Ferreira has more than 40 years of law enforcement and security expertise, the university said in a news release.

Photo: Mark Arbeit Business and brainstorming on the Big Island are still done local style, at a place like Ken's House of Pancakes in Hilo Gathered there recently were farmer Richard Ha, Mayor Billy Kenoi, UH-Hilo Chancellor Rose Tseng and KTA's Toby Taniguchi.

Advanced students at the University of Hawaii-Hilo College of Pharmacy will travel to rural areas throughout Hawaii as part of a federally funded project aimed at improving medication safety for seniors.

Recipients of the the Governor's Innovation Awards for September include a private company that provides people around the world with quality water, a school student coordinator who came up with a creative business teaching tool for his students, and a university leadership team that is accommodating growing student enrollment on a limited budget.

The University of Hawaii Board of Regents approved a supplemental budget request to the governor yesterday that calls for $235.5 million in construction bond spending to fix aging buildings and $31 million for a new College of Hawaiian Language building at UH-Hilo. The operating budget does not call for restoration of the $100 million in general ...

Thanks to the foresight and generosity of Joseph and Florence Maney, students and faculty at University of Hawai'i Hilo will benefit from enhanced academic offerings at the Edwin H. Mookini Library.

The University of Hawai'i-Hilo women's volleyball team moved up one spot to No. 19 in this week's American Volleyball Coaches Association Division II poll.

ST. JOHNS - St. Johns resident Josh Verlinde, an 18-month associate, has been named the Clinton Memorial Hospital September/October Healthcare Hero.

Josimara Pinheiro and Fabiane Seben each had 11 kills as unbeaten and 19th-ranked Hawai'i-Hilo swept host Grand Canyon, 25-11, 25-20, 25-9, last night in a Pacific West Conference volleyball match at Phoenix.

The following message is from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Dr. Luoluo Hong: "We'd like to extend our thoughts and prayers to those students and employees whose families have been affected by yesterday's earthquake and tsunami in Samoa.

Through $20 million, five-year awards, NSF investment in multi-institutional and interdisciplinary projects provides physical, human and cyber infrastructure aimed at improving research competitiveness in six states From biodiversity in the Hawaiian Islands to sustainable development in Maine, six research projects, each representing a state-wide ...