A Vital Partner
From music to theater, dance to visual arts, poetry to digital media, the campuses of the University of Hawai‘i System are centers of creative culture.
Our community partners include public and private businesses, research centers, government agencies and individuals in Hawai‘i and around the world. They share a common desire for innovation, excellence and sustainability; highlights of some of those partnerships are below.
Arts and community news
Student Films at FestivalSep. 22, Manoa — The Louis Vuitton Hawai‘i Film Festival features works by 12 students at the Academy for Creative Media.
Native Hawaiian PlantsSep. 16, Manoa — The Lyon Arboretum is awarded $105,000 to expand its collections of culturally significant native Hawaiian plants.
Remembering 9/11Sep. 10, Honolulu — Students from the Sheet Metal and Plastics program display two American flags they have crafted in remembrance of Sept. 11.
Reverse AnthropologySep. 9, West O‘ahu — Louis Herman and Chris Conybeare produce the film Primal Quest, about the first-ever Bushman anthropological expedition to the West.
Lifelong Learning and AstronomySep. 3, Hilo — The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute team up to offer special discounts and memberships for both programs.Spotlight
A new look for Malamalama online
The magazine of the University of Hawai‘i System, Malamalama, has a new online look. The blog format allows readers to comment on stories and subscribe to the RSS feed.
New multimedia features take advantage of the web’s capabilities, like the audio and video on the story about Bamboo Ridge and narrated slideshow on the event listing for The Little Snow Fox.
Malamalama is the university motto and means “the light of knowledge” in Hawaiian. The magazine’s purpose is to enlighten readers about the ways people and programs on 10 UH campuses create and share knowledge with the people of Hawai‘i and the world.