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UH-Mānoa Building Is Renamed For ‘First Lady Of Limu’
The renaming effort began
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The life sciences building at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is being renamed for “the First Lady of Limu.”
significance to the Univer- sity of Hawai‘i,” states UH president David Lasner. “And the new life sciences building provides a highly befitting opportunity to hon- or her life, career and contri- butions.”
The three-story, state-of- the-art, 70,000-square-foot building, which opened in 2020, will officially be known as the Isabella Aio- na Abbott Life Sciences Building.
The UH board of regents voted unanimously to ap- prove the renaming at its Jan. 19 meeting, following a groundswell of support from the campus community.
The late UH ethnobotany professor and Native Hawai- ian paved the way for inte- grating traditional Native Hawaiian customs and prac- tices into Western science. She was also instrumental in establishing the school’s ethnobotany program, which studies the interaction be- tween humans and plants.
“It’s about the opportuni- ty for us to use these kinds of recognitions to reflect not only on the legacy but who dowewanttobeasacom- munity,” states UH board of regents vice chair Alapa- ki Nahale‘a. “I was really moved not just by the words but the way and the beautiful spirit behind it. The begin-
The late University of Hawai‘i ethnobotany professor Isabella Aiona Abbott was known as the “First
Lady of Limu.” PHOTOS COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA
ning of 2023, I just feel like this is the type of energy that our system can capitalize on and use to be the aspirational
“Dr. Isabella Aiona Ab- bott truly exemplifies what it means to be a person of
institution we need to be for Hawai‘i.”
six years ago as a grassroots campaign. More than 3,000 people signed a petition, and
more than 100 provided tes- timony in support of renam- ing the building.
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