UH Hilo celebrates fall commencement
The candidates for degrees and certificates will march at Vulcan Gym on December 16.
The candidates for degrees and certificates will march at Vulcan Gym on December 16.
Approximately 900 candidates for degrees and certificates will participate in the ceremony at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Six students won scholarships and two placed in the top ten of the cyber security competition.
The team placed first in their bracket in the Fall 2017 National Cyber League Season, helping to propel it to an overall second place out of 84 teams.
Uʻilani Dasalla, Tynsl Kailimai, Ciarra-Lynn Parinas and Leomanaolamaikalani Peleiholani-Blankenfeld presented their research papers at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences conference in Rome.
The students who received the awards are Brittney Barriera, Amy Hicks, Darlene Jarquio, Cara Kruse, Jea Kyla Sheyne Laganina, Jolene Lima, Cynthia Perez, Hector Perez, Kaanoipua Roback, Kaz Tasic and Devan Ueno.
Arif Rahman and Kainalu Matthews of team Good Egg won for developing a noninvasive test for embryo health-check during in vitro fertilization of bovine cattle.
Rebecca Prescott, a UH Manoa microbiology student who recently received her PhD, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship award for her project.
Kapiʻolani CC's Jovikka Antallan and UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹'s Michael Fernandez earned presentation awards at the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.
Juvette Kahawaiʻi and Kainen Kahiwahiwa Bohol won a year’s worth of tuition by submitting business ideas to the HIPlan Business Competition.