The Hawaii Council for the Humanities awarded $20,000 to Community Development Pacific; $10,000, Honolulu Academy of Arts; $5,000, Ka 'Imi Na'auao o Hawaii Nei; $2,500, Pualeilani Fernandez; and $2,500 to Iris Lopez and David Forbes.

The University of Hawaii Foundation has elected Michael Tresler and Brandt Farias to its board of trustees.

Tresler is the senior vice president of Grove Farm Co., headquartered in Lihue. Farias is an executive vice president in charge of the Marketing Communications Division at First Hawaiian Bank.