About 55 participants from all 10 campuses worked on ways to synergize the work of UH with the at the University of Hawai?i at Hilo’s 贬补濒别?ō濒别濒辞 in February.
It was the second UH Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage gathering, following .
This meeting had three objectives:
- Acknowledge the importance of the University of Hawai?i System’s understanding, appreciation and respect for ?Ike Hawai?ii in teaching, research and service.
- Refine focus areas and develop action plans for the University of Hawai?i System ideas and projects that surfaced through brainstorming at the last gathering on December 4, 2015.
- Connect the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage to current to strengthen ongoing work in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), sustainability and becoming a model indigenous serving institution.
The Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Nainoa Thompson told the gathering he wanted to humbly impress upon them how important this meeting was, “to create the conversations to take care of Hawai?i for the Earth.”
“Hawai?i is the best place,” said Thompson. “It needs its navigators, and many are sitting in this room.”
For more on the meeting, read from UH Hilo Stories.
For more photos of the second UH Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage meeting, go to the .
More from the December 2015 meeting
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—By Kelli Trifonovitch