The University of Hawaii announced Wednesday that UH Hilo received $23.9 million in the 2025 fiscal year as part of a fourth consecutive year of record-breaking external funding to the university system.
Eric Matsunaga, UH’s director of research and administrative operations, said the funding from outside sources for UH Hilo was “in the ballpark” of previous years. He said UH Hilo was awarded $22.6 million in fiscal year 2024, and that the $1.3 million fluctuation is typical.
Matsunaga said UH Hilo’s Department of Geography received substantial funding in 2025 to support environmental and cultural protection efforts. The department received $2.25 million from NOAA to support remote sensing and data modeling to help forecast and monitor the spread of rapid ohia death across all islands in