July 23, 2024 acomerfo

$6.5M boost for cyberinfrastructure capacity, training in the Pacific

A University of Hawaiʻi project to enhance cyberinfrastructure

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July 18, 2024 acomerfo

The Hawai‘i State Energy Office and LAVA LAB Create HAVEN

Honolulu (KHON2) – The Hawai‘i State Energy Office (HSEO)and the University of

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July 1, 2024 acomerfo

Drone technology aid restoration, resilience of Native Hawaiian fishponds

Scientists and kiaʻi loko (fishpond practitioners) have a new tool to aid their

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June 25, 2024 acomerfo

From wildfires to bird calls: Sage redefines environmental monitoring

The research team and students traveled to Hawaii to build and install Sage nodes

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June 19, 2024 Maria Dumanlang

UH HPC users & HIDSI members receive tenure & promotion in 2024

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Tenure and Promotion Belcaid, Mahdi—Associate

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June 3, 2024 acomerfo

AI-powered wildfire forecast system for Hawaiʻi is goal of UH researchers

In the wake of the deadly Maui wildfires, the University of Hawaiʻi is

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May 22, 2024 Maria Dumanlang

UH grad students train with national experts to tackle clean energy issues

Nearly 20 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate students across several

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May 15, 2024 acomerfo

USDA Expands Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Crop Insurance to Hawaii

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is

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April 2, 2024 acomerfo

‘Entangling’ UH students with quantum bit research

Quantum computing is poised to transform information technology and our understanding

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3D photogrammetry techniques were used to assess ecology of the reef system. (Photo credit: Todd Glaser)
March 20, 2024 acomerfo

Researchers: Olympic tower construction could damage Tahiti reef ecosystem

In preparation for the 2024 Olympic surfing competition, a new judging tower is being

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The computer program identifies miconia in aerial photographs using visual cues such as leaf size and shape (see miconia plants circled based on the computer identification). Each plant is linked to GPS coordinates giving crews a location so they can then remove the plant. — Spatial Data and Visualization Lab photo
March 12, 2024 acomerfo

For healthy reefs, productive watersheds, resource managers are turning to AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work–not just for chatbots in

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Kelsey Walling/Tribune-Herald UH-Hilo professor Travis Mandel stands for a photo Wednesday outside the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
February 16, 2024 cedward2

Legislature tackles artificial intelligence

As artificial intelligence grows more advanced, state lawmakers are pushing to

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January 31, 2024 Maria Dumanlang

Giant sea salt aerosols play major role in Hawaii’s coastal clouds, rain

Research News Particles scatter light, act as starting point for cloud formation and

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East Hawaiʻi Veterans Cemetery No. 1 in Hilo. (Photo credit: KEFleming )
January 31, 2024 Maria Dumanlang

UH Hilo field work creates new map to help visitors to veterans cemetery

Reading time: 2 minutes Visitors to the East Hawaiʻi Veterans

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December 18, 2023 cedward2

Top prize goes to grad students for their drought data tool

Two University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students, Cherryle Heu and

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rod feral pig
December 18, 2023 cedward2

Feral cattle, pigs exacerbate spread of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death on Hawaiʻi Island

A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and UH Mānoa are leading

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December 5, 2023 cedward2

Hawaii Should Use Artificial Intelligence To Improve Fire Forecasts, Researchers Say

The ability to provide enhanced risk assessments now exists, but it needs help

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December 4, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

UH to use AI to advance health equity with $500K grant

A $500,000 grant will help the University of Hawaiʻi provide Hawaiʻi’s

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November 28, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

Coastlines: Unsung heroes in Hawaiʻi’s rainfall creation

Tiny aerosols, like sea salt, dust and ash, might be minuscule, but they play a giant

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November 20, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

Using AI to track island fish earns national award

In groundbreaking research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, computer

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Professor and student in a lab holding instruments
October 25, 2023 cedward2

$10.9M to establish UH Pacific Center for Genome Research

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are establishing a genome

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October 23, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

Researchers awarded NSF grant for Lahaina wildfire simulation

Interdisciplinary team to combine AI, high-performance computing and modeling to

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Lahaina Maui after fires
October 4, 2023 cedward2

New funding to focus on future prevention of wildfires, trauma-informed education

Four University of Hawaiʻi-led projects received a total of roughly $800,000 in

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under the ocean, scuba diver holds waterproof camera
September 21, 2023 cedward2

Coral colony size, shape impact marine complexity, health

Every curve and every angle of a coral colony holds the key to sustaining an array of

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Image of six students with faculty and graduate mentor.
September 14, 2023 cedward2

HS interns use AI, develop expense-tracking app in 48 hours

Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to its fullest potential, seven high school

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July 25, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

$424K grant to better predict weather, climate through machine learning, AI

Improved weather and climate forecasting using machine learning and artificial

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May 31, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

UH Hilo grad students present invasive species research in New Zealand

Two graduate students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo tropical

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April 27, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

UH part of $17M grant to improve AI through Indigenous knowledge

The University of Hawaiʻi is part of an international group of

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April 12, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

John Burns and Colleagues of MEGA Lab are Pioneering a New Era of Marine Science

The MEGA Lab of UH Hilo is shifting the ‘culture of science’ with unprecedented

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April 5, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

Visitors from more than 100 countries access the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal

The Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal (HCDP), which hosts a wide range of

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March 24, 2023 Maria Dumanlang

International award for PhD student’s body fat, heart disease research

Research that helps identify how age, sex and ethnicity can impact body fat and risk

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November 3, 2022 shivani7

Substance abuse in Hawaiʻi tracked by new dashboard

From overdose deaths to crisis calls in Hawaiʻi, data related to drug trends is

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October 26, 2022 shivani7

$500K boosts data-intensive research through new platform

Researchers across the 10-campus University of Hawaiʻi system will be able

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September 12, 2022 shivani7

UH joins Jetstream2 in immensely fast computing for research, AI

University of Hawaiʻi researchers and students will soon have access to

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August 17, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

CITRUS doesn’t only pertain to lemons and limes this summer

UH undergraduate program enhances data skills across 7 institutions Over the course

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August 10, 2022 shivani7

UH Mānoa excellence in botany receives national spotlight

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s excellence in the field of botany was

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June 8, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

Reality ‘bytes’ the dust, UH Mānoa students conquer national hackathon

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa team of Information and Computer

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May 26, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

$400K grant to speed high-performance computing, advance research

A second high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at the University

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March 3, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

Revolutionary climate data portal critical to future planning

Knowledge of climate patterns is critically important for a variety of resource

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February 28, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

University of Hawaii celebrates supercomputer milestone

By Ryan Kawalani Ozawa Mana has 8,500 computing cores, 120 GPUs, more than 63

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February 7, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

A sense of direction: Paper published on the genetics of animals’ innate magnetic sense

Magnetite crystals that form inside specialized receptor cells of salmon and other

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February 3, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

Faster chemical reaction simulations to aid environment, health, more

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa project that aims to make computer

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January 25, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

UH, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii partner with industry to boost IT workforce

The University of Hawaiʻi, in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii

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January 7, 2022 Maria Dumanlang

McFall-Ngai blazes trail to lead life, environmental sciences at Carnegie

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s pioneering microbiome

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December 15, 2021 Maria Dumanlang

Discharge of precious groundwater impacted by sea level, ocean tides

Groundwater is a vital resource for humans and ecosystems. Submarine groundwater

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October 8, 2021 Maria Dumanlang

$1M supports resilience to climate change through cyberinfrastructure training

The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $1-million grant to the

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September 9, 2021 Maria Dumanlang

$300K to teach data science for the jobs of the future

Teaching critical data science skills to a broad group of students is the focus of

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August 17, 2021 Maria Dumanlang

Environmentally-friendly space fuel research gets $550K boost

A key component that powers vehicles in space may eventually become more

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August 17, 2021 Maria Dumanlang

UH Hilo students improve AI for live fish tracking, more

This summer, five students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo worked with a

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August 3, 2021 Maria Dumanlang

Sustainable water withdrawal from main Oʻahu aquifer may decrease

The future of Oʻahu’s primary water source may be in jeopardy if current water

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October 31, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

Team of UH-Hilo students, faculty publish work on coral health and disease

Students and faculty in the ‘Ike Wai Research Experience in Data Science Program at

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October 23, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

New tech video a collaboration of animation and science

A University of Hawaiʻi collaboration produced an animation video to explain

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September 25, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH astronomers to construct 3D map of Milky Way galaxy

What does our own galaxy look like? It’s hard to tell because we are inside. A new

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August 28, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

Deep-space discovery debunks decades-old belief

An astrochemical discovery by University of Hawaiʻi at

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August 27, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

$510K to research climate impacts on Hawaiʻi fisheries

To better understand climate impacts on pelagic and coastal fisheries

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August 24, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

Student work featured at international computer graphics conference

Sixty-two students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Academy for

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August 24, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

AI innovation may improve COVID-19 diagnosis

A new artificial intelligence (AI) innovation can test individuals for COVID-19 with

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August 19, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

$4.5M NSF grant for Pacific cyberinfrastructure

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University

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August 19, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

State-of-the-art of data science finds hidden relationships in data through human steerable AI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396646 Artificial and human intelligence work

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Taro field
August 19, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

1st taro genome assembly developed by researchers

After a decades-long effort of cross breeding taro in the hopes of developing a

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August 15, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

AI student research conducted in the age of COVID-19

Six students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo participated in

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August 12, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH astronomers cast world-wide ‘net’ of telescopes to catch mysterious fading stars

University of Hawaiʻi scientists are leading one of the newly

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June 22, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

Collaborative Data Analysis & Visualization gets Artificial Intelligence Boost with $5M NSF Grant

Researchers at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, University of Illinois at Chicago, and

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June 13, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH Hilo, UH Manoa undergrads team awarded for Hawaiian coral reefs VR app

A team of undergraduate students from the University of Hawai`i at Hilo Computer

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Jetstream 2 map
June 4, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH joins $10M national cloud computing collaboration

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $10 million to the Pervasive

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May 27, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

Data science talent at UH Mānoa, UH Hilo showcased virtually

University of Hawaiʻi’s Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute (HIDSI)

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May 20, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

How math helps answer COVID-19 pandemic scenarios

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of

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May 19, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH student, faculty honored for excellence in undergraduate education

The Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for faculty and a

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May 11, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

Collaborative coral study compares old, new scientific techniques

Students from the UH Hilo ʻIke Wai Summer Research Experience survey coral health and

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April 30, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH Mānoa COVID-19 wastewater surveillance project receives NSF funding

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa COVID-19 research project that

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April 24, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH Hilo produces prototype medical equipment with 3D printing to help community prepare for COVID-19

Members of the local community have come together—people from public and private

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WiDS Conference Women in University panel
April 9, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH Mānoa graduate student represents women in data science at first-time Hawai‘i conference

Polished, friendly and with an infectious smile, University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa

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April 3, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

AAAI Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Symposium

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) virtually

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March 5, 2020 Maria Dumanlang

UH Hilo receives $500K grant to research artificial intelligence interaction with humans

A computer scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is the

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October 11, 2019 Maria Dumanlang

Chaminade University’s Immersion Program Builds Capacity for Data Science in Hawaii, Pacific Region

Chaminade University’s Immersion Program Builds Capacity for Data Science in Hawaii,

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August 21, 2019 Maria Dumanlang

UH and American Samoa launch HoloCampus 3D learning platform

American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has switched on a ground-breaking

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July 26, 2019 Maria Dumanlang

Peter Sadowski Wins AIJ Prominent Paper Award

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Information and Computer Sciences announced on July 22

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June 21, 2019 Maria Dumanlang

NSF-supported Frontera named 5th fastest supercomputer in the world

Texas Advanced Computing Center ranked 5th on the Top500 list of the

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May 6, 2019 Maria Dumanlang

Wanted: People Who Can Make Useful Sense Of Vast Amounts Of Data

Civil Beat recently featured Hawai‘i Data Science Institute Co-Directors Jason Leigh

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March 22, 2019 Maria Dumanlang

Why Hawai’i Is An Important Spot For Cancer Research

A collaboration with Hawai’i Data Science Institute and Dr. John Shepherd,

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March 5, 2019 Jason Leigh

INDIGENOUS PROTOCOLS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

March 1-2, 2019The Hawaii Data Science Institute, the Laboratory for

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November 25, 2018 Jason Leigh

Supercomputing 2018

Nov 12, 2018: Funded by the National Science Foundation, SAGE2 version 4 (Scalable

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November 25, 2018 Gwen Jacobs

Welcome Dr. Peter Sadowski

August 7, 2018 The ICS Department is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Peter

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November 22, 2018 mahdi

Congratulations to Sean Cleveland, SGCI’s “Young Professional of the Year”

The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) awards Sean Cleveland the 2018 Young

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November 22, 2018 mahdi

UH HilO Certificate Program in Data Science

UH Hilo will launch a Certificate Program in Data Science Fall 2018. The University

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March 3, 2018 mahdi

The Hawaii Data Science Institute has Officially Launched

Data science is an emerging discipline that draws upon knowledge in a multitude of

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