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A total of 21 students within the Maui Filipino community have been announced as recipients of the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2024 Scholarship Awards. The scholars will receive at least $1,000 to support their pursuit of higher education.

Multifamily buildings in Honolulu without air conditioning will become increasingly warmer in the decades to come with “comfort levels” dropping by 42% by 2080 without interventions, according to a study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

A record $3.5-million gift to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from the Barbara Barnard Smith Foundation will fund the music department’s first-ever endowed chair. The newly established Professor Barbara Barnard Smith Endowed Chair supports the university’s desire and commitment to revitalize its ethnomusicology program and honors the legacy of the late revered UH Mānoa professor who died in 2021.

Pono Wines,  a premium Napa wine brand inspired by Hawaiʻi, released today the 2021 IMUA Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, made in partnership with the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa).

The world’s deepest cabled observatory — the University of Hawaiʻi’s ALOHA Cabled Observatory — celebrated 10 years of continuously providing data directly from the seafloor to shore-based scientists on June 6.

Anne Scharnhorst, Allied Health Department Chair and Professor in the Nursing Program at the University of Hawai‘i Maui College, has been awarded her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from UH Mānoa.

UH administrators say the exemption will help to attract an applicant pool of students amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

According to a report in the Lancet Global Health journal, the entire world could be free of tuberculosis by 2045 if world leaders decided in a year to invest at least $2 billion in treatment and disease prevention research. The report was written by global TB experts and researchers, including Victoria Fan, an assistant professor […]

A new study led by researchers at UH Mānoa indicates that as climate changes over the coming decades, hurricanes have a higher chance of landfall.

Two University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students have been selected to attend the national Hack The Language Flagship event hosted by the Flagship Technology Innovation Center (FTIC). The students, Mia Porter and Leon Qu, are scholars under the UH Mānoaʻs Chinese Language Flagship Program. The Flagship Hackathon is a fast-paced event where participants seek advice […]

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa recently moved up two spots in the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Ranking. UH Mānoa advanced from 63 to 61 in the nation, the highest it has ranked in the Timesʻ annual ranking. “UH Mānoa is gratified by our continuous upward movement on the Times Higher Education ranking, […]

University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa professor H. Annamalai is leading a project to improve weather forecasts for US-affiliated Pacific Islands like the state of Hawaiʻi. The project is overseen by the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at UH Mānoa and received a $508,000 grant from the NOAA Research Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) Program. During […]

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School found the first direct evidence of water ice on the Moon.

A new study on Hawaiian limu, or marine algae, led to the discovery of new limu species that can be only found in deep, dark waters.

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Pacific Islands Climate Science Center will award universities and other partners over $600K for studies that will assess the potential effects of climate change in and around Hawai‘i.

WASC praised UH Mānoa, the flagship campus of the 10-campus UH system, for the strides it has made since it was first accredited in 2006. The 10 year renewal is the maximum period granted by the agency.