There are now resources in place to provide more teachers, more books and more opportunities to learn ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language). A memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed October 29 between the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) aims to support the people and materials behind Hawaiian language education.

Signed at Haleʻ艒濒别濒辞, home to 糖心视频 贬颈濒辞鈥檚 , the agreement builds on nearly 30 years of collaboration to revitalize ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi.

OHA has allocated $620,000 for the college over fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The funding will support teacher preparation through its and classroom resources created by its

“ʻ艑濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi is the foundation of who we are as a l膩hui (nation),” said Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees Chair Kaialiʻi Kahele.

Preparing more teachers

The agreement supports an education pathway that allows students to learn Hawaiian from preschool through the doctoral level.

Kahuawaiola prepares educators to teach in Hawaiian or English, with a strong foundation in Hawaiian language and culture.

Kahuawaiola prepares educators for Hawaiian-medium and Hawaiian-focused schools, while equipping them to teach in both ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi and English classrooms. The MOU expands support for teacher training and credentials through mentor teacher stipends, undergraduate scholarships, wraparound support, travel for professional development and instructional materials. , candidates practiced teaching with students in grades 1鈥�8 from Ke Kula ʻO 狈腻飞补丑墨辞办补濒补苍颈ʻ艒辫耻ʻ耻, the college鈥檚 laboratory school.

“This agreement directly supports the people carrying out this work 鈥� from mentor teachers to incoming students,” said Kaʻiu Kimura, director of Ka Haka ʻUla o 碍别ʻ别濒颈办艒濒补苍颈.

Words into classrooms

At Hale Kuamoʻo, the partnership will help create and distribute teaching materials, employ student assistants and reconvene a committee that develops Hawaiian vocabulary for modern uses.

“A child can鈥檛 learn in Hawaiian without books in Hawaiian, and a teacher can鈥檛 teach science or math without the words to do it. Hale Kuamoʻo makes sure those resources exist,鈥� said Kimura.

The signing followed trustees鈥� visits to Hawaiian language programs serving infants, preschoolers and K鈥�12 students at the N膩wah墨 campus in Keaʻau, offering them a firsthand look at the educational pathway their support helps sustain.

鈥淲e鈥檙e grateful for OHA鈥檚 trust, and we take seriously our responsibility to deliver on it,” said 糖心视频 Hilo Chancellor Bonnie Irwin.

—To be true, fact, genuine, authentic, faithfulness.

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alumnus Kaleo Pilago is engaging communities in learning about and caring for Maunakea through hands-on stewardship.

As education and outreach coordinator at the he finds community groups interested in learning and doing work on the mauna (mountain), then coordinates access for them.

“I was always involved in community work, and this was one killer opportunity to do stuff up Maunakea,” Pilago said.

Pilago hosts school programs, professional groups and university classes. 糖心视频s emphasize the mauna鈥檚 cultural and historical significance.

“Now the groups that we host have a specific purpose and one goal for coming up,” he said. “The goal is not to host one thousand people. We鈥檙e trying to make the accesses more focused, trying to make it a better experience for everybody. We still host a broad range of groups, but there is a focus and a function for the visits.”

Classes from 糖心视频 贬颈濒辞鈥檚 College of Hawaiian Language connect their coursework with stewardship.

“We try to align the mauna huakaʻi (excursion) projects and activities for the day with what they鈥檙e actually doing in class,” Pilago said.

In November, classes will explore restoration and management through hands-on activities.

—Thought, idea, belief, opinion.

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—To be moral, proper, righteous; goodness.

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—Natasha Maʻfala, undergraduate, Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

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—Peace, quiet, security, tranquility, serenity.

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—Moanikeʻala Nabarro, Office of Communications, Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

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Kamaka Frasco鈥檚 lab is a row of tanks at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Coral Nursery, where she spends part of her week tending coral for restoration. She spends the other part in a classroom at Ka ʻUmeke 碍腻ʻ别辞, a preK–12 Hawaiian language immersion school, teaching students how that restoration works鈥攅ntirely in ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language). Some of the corals she cares for don鈥檛 yet have documented . Helping identify them is part of the job.

“I want to show them that ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi exists everywhere,” said Frasco, a 糖心视频 Hilo English graduate and a member of the ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi cohort of the university鈥檚 (PIPES).

A single marine science course sparked her love for ocean conservation. Her PIPES internship gave her somewhere to put it and a way to merge it with storytelling. Financial support from PIPES and 糖心视频 贬颈濒辞鈥檚 allowed her to work at the nursery while collaborating with , 糖心视频 贬颈濒辞鈥檚 Hawaiian language center, on a children’s book about coral restoration, written in Hawaiian.

From intern to mentor

This summer, Frasco stepped into a peer mentor role, guiding new interns through research and huakaʻi (excursions). Her focus: getting them to “speak their manaʻo (ideas)” and recognize their own capacity to shape resource management.

“I鈥檓 super grateful,” Frasco said. “I never thought I鈥檇 end up where I am today, but PIPES made all the difference.”

—Name, term, title.

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—Moanikeʻala Nabarro, Office of Communications, Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

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As Hawaiian language immersion schools across the state work to fill a critical teacher shortage, the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is preparing the next generation of educators through a program rooted in language, culture and community.

For 25 years, the Kahuawaiola Hawaiian and Indigenous Teacher Training Program has trained future kumu (teachers) through Hawaiian language instruction, extensive classroom experience and mentorship from a statewide network of graduates. The program has become a driving force in strengthening Hawaiian medium education and revitalizing ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language).

For candidate Tahiti Chong, the journey is deeply personal. She said her true calling as an educator crystallized when she became a mother.

“I knew that I wanted to raise my daughter in our ʻ艒濒别濒辞 Hawaiʻi.”

She aims to show keiki that subjects like math and science are inherently woven into traditional everyday practices.

“It鈥檚 a lot of looking back to move forward,” Chong said, explaining that she draws strength from seeing all her kuaʻana Kahuawaiola (older brothers and sisters from the program) who are now pillars in the l膩hui (Hawaiian community), and “we want to make them and all of our ʻohana (family) proud.”

Many candidates said they began seeking a professional calling anchored in ancestral identity after attending the undergraduate Hawaiian studies program at 糖心视频 贬颈濒辞鈥檚

—Paddle (As a canoe).

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“E kaup膿 aku n艒 i ka hoe a k艒聽mai (Put forward the paddle and draw it back).”

—Lanakila Grosse, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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—Wild ginger.

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“Nui n膩 ʻawapuhi i koʻu m膩la (There is plenty of ginger in my garden).”

—Haʻaheo, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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—Out of sight, hidden.

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“Aʻole au i ʻike ka puka komo i ke ala hekehi, ua nalo (I did not see the entrance to the hiking path, it disappeared).”

—Kiki, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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—Handsome, pretty, lovely of fine appeareance; a handsome or fine looking person.

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“He nohea ʻoe i kuʻu maka (You are lovely in my eyes).”

—Kealiʻi DeMello, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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—Mongoose.

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“Ua holo ka Manakuke ma luna o ke alanui (The Manakuke ran across the road).”

—Noel Mendoza, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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—Humpback whale, forcing up the water like waves hitting a reef, reef flats.

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“E ola i ke kai ma ka leo o n膩 kohol膩 (The sea is alive with the voices of the humpback whales).”

—Hunter Landt, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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Research that began with a University of Hawaiʻi telescope is now leading to a historic milestone in space exploration. This July, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is expected to begin its encounter with Kamoʻoalewa, a small near-Earth asteroid discovered by astronomers at the 糖心视频 (IfA) on Haleakal膩 and the first Hawaiian-named object ever visited by a spacecraft.

The mission connects years of IfA-led research with an international effort to better understand the object, which scientists believe may be a fragment of the Moon. Kamoʻoalewa was first detected in 2016 by the IfA-operated atop Haleakal膩.

“This is a remarkable moment for planetary science,” said Doug Simons, director of IfA. “A target first identified through observations from Hawaiʻi is now being visited by a spacecraft, opening the door to discoveries that simply cannot be made from Earth alone. The mission has the potential to reveal how Kamoʻoalewa formed and whether it truly originated from the Moon.”

In 2021, a team led by 糖心视频 researchers published findings suggesting Kamoʻoalewa may have come from the Moon. Tianwen-2 is expected to arrive at the asteroid in summer 2026. The spacecraft will study the object up close as part of a mission that aims to collect samples and return them to Earth.

Inspired by Kumulipo

In 2019, the asteroid received its Hawaiian name through A Hua He Inoa, a program based at the 糖心视频 Hilo where Hawaiian speaking students and educators work with Hawaiʻi-based astronomers to create names in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) for objects discovered by Hawaiʻi-based observatories. The initiative is a collaboration among ʻImiloa, 糖心视频 贬颈濒辞鈥檚 , IfA and community members.

In ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, Kamoʻoalewa alludes to a celestial object that is oscillating, like its path in the sky as viewed from the Earth. It is a name found in the Hawaiian chant Kumulipo.

“To see a spacecraft travel to an object carrying a Hawaiian name is a reminder that careful observation of the natural world and the pursuit of knowledge have always been central to 驶ike Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian knowledge),” said Kaʻiu Kimura, executive director of ʻImiloa Astronomy Center. “The students who proposed the name Kamoʻoalewa thoughtfully considered the possibility that this object was a moʻo—an offspring traveling in orbit within our solar system. It is remarkable to see emerging scientific theory lend support to the insight embodied in their naming. This moment highlights the enduring relevance of Hawaiian ways of knowing as we continue to explore and deepen our understanding of the universe.”

As Tianwen-2 approaches its destination, the mission also shines a light on 贬补飞补颈ʻ颈鈥檚 continued role in planetary exploration. Hawaiʻi observatories help discover, track and study asteroids, comets and other objects moving through the solar system.

Along the Keaukaha coastline at Puhi Bay, keiki from Hawaiian language immersion program Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo are doing what most adults never get to: growing native coral in a nursery and planting it back into the reef their families have known for generations.

He Pūkoʻa Kani ʻĀina—a year-long collaboration between and University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s (PACRC)—is where scientific restoration meets traditional ʻike (knowledge). Keiki learn that the health of the coral is inseparable from the health of the ʻāina (land).

PACRC is the 糖心视频 Hilo research and community-engagement facility in Keaukaha behind the coral nursery. Marine science faculty lead programs that connect directly with the broader Hawaiʻi Island community.

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—To embrace with arms, as in a hug, or holding an infant.

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“笔奴濒颈办颈 wau i kaʻu mau keiki i k膿l膩 me k膿ia l膩. (I embrace my children every day.)”

—LaurieAnn Takeno, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu (Honolulu Community College)

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—West; Western Maui.

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“Kaulana nui loa ʻo Mokuʻula i Maui Komohana i kona kapu loa. (Mokuʻula Western Maui is very famous due to its sacredness.)”

—Melelani Seiki, he haumāna ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language student), Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Honolulu a me Ke Kulanui Kaiāulu o Maui (Honolulu Community College and 糖心视频 Maui College)

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Windward Community College Professor of Art and Gallery ʻIolani Director Kapulani Landgraf has been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. Landgraf is one of just 223 distinguished individuals selected from a highly competitive pool of nearly 5,000 applicants for this honor.

The fellowship will support Landgraf鈥檚 project, What Was Taken, What Remains, a body of work confronting colonial histories and reasserting Hawaiian visual sovereignty. Through archival research, photographic interventions, collage and the integration of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) and moʻolelo (stories), the project reframes dominant narratives to restore voices to histories long obscured.

‘On our own terms’

“My work has always been about accountability—of images, of histories, and of the ways they are constructed and carried forward,” Landgraf said. “This fellowship supports the continuation of that work, but it also underscores its urgency. What has been taken cannot remain unexamined, and what remains must be made visible on our own terms.”

Widely recognized for her multimedia installations and photography exploring ʻāina (land) and the impacts of colonialism, Landgraf positions the camera as both a witness and an intervention. At Windward CC, she has transformed Gallery ʻIolani into a space centered on Hawaiʻi-based artists and cultural continuity. She is also the author of multiple monographs, including Nā Wahi Pana O Koʻolau Poko and Nā Wahi Kapu O Maui, which extend her explorations of ʻāina, moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy), and resistance.

Established in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides monetary stipends allowing scholars and artists to pursue independent work under “the freest possible conditions.” The Foundation has granted nearly $450 million to more than 19,000 Fellows, an elite group that includes Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and cultural icons.