Hawaiʻi Pacific University

Amy Nguyen-Chyung, the new business dean at Hawaiʻi Pacific University, discusses the $700,000 gift from John Scarpa aimed at jumpstarting entrepreneurship and innovation.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine Dean Sam Shomaker discusses challenges and opportunities in health care as students gear up for a new academic year; Hawaiʻi Pacific University College of Business Dean Amy Nguyen-Chyung discusses a new $700,000 initiative to jump-start entrepreneurship

Hawaiʻi Pacific University is offering a new minor for undergraduate students and a summer short course series to train a workforce to address marine debris. The Conversation spoke to Josh Forakis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Marine Debris Research at HPU, about the upcoming programs.

The competition was stiff — 475 people applied for 30 slots to train as physician assistants in a new master's program at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. It rolled out last month and aims to address our community's health care needs.

Shaun Moss, the executive director of Hawaiʻi Pacific University’s Oceanic Institute, shared the latest on an upcoming release of several hundred juvenile yellow tang in the waters off Windward Oʻahu.

Former U.S. Attorney Kenji Price has returned home to Hawaiʻi to take a job as senior vice president and general counsel for Hawaiʻi Pacific University. The Conversation spoke with him about his time in public service.

On June 6, 1944, the Allied nations stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to push out the Germans. The Conversation talked to Russell Hart, a war historian and Hawaiʻi Pacific University professor, to give us context on this 80th anniversary.

Last month, The Conversation featured a new master's degree in construction management at Hawai’i Pacific University. The General Contractors Association of Hawaii just stepped up to support the program in a big way, to the tune of $250,000.

The Conversation talked with HPU Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer Walsh about what's in store.

Hawai‘i Pacific University is opening a Las Vegas campus to students in August 2024. It’s the first time the private college, established on O‘ahu in 1965, has expanded outside the Hawaiian islands, according to a Tuesday news release.