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Among the 100 best vacations to enrich your life

National Geographic ranked the Hawaiian EDventure “monitor active volcanoes” program in “the 100 best vacations to enrich your life”
(Grout, Pam. The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich your Life. Washinghton, DC: National Geographic, 2009.)

In the program “you’ll study with scientists from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, and the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes, exploring lava tubes, trekking across historic lava flows, and learning basic field methods in volcano monitoring. You’ll collect seismic, geodetic, and geochemical data and learn how to interpret it. But volcanoes aren’t the only thing you can study through Hawaiian EDventures, which custom designs each new adventure”.

“A typical day can consist of any number of activities, depending on what you’re interested in learning”, says Judith Fox-Goldstein, director of the program, which has won several travel and business awards.”You can learn how to weave lauhala baskets and string lei with Kupuna (elders), study the stars at the Mauna Kea Observatory, or plant taro with farmers in Waipio Valley”.

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2009 Pacific Business News “Businesswoman of the Year” Finalist

UH Hilo exec makes conference center a true marketing partner

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Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 6:00pm HST

Judith Fox-Goldstein likes to joke that her job can be viewed as “creative chaos.”

She is the creator and director of the University of Hawaii at Hilo Conference Center.

The center opened in 1990 as a university project but is self-supporting, operating on grants and event fees and contracts.

It acts as an events-planning organization, putting on academic and business meetings throughout the state and coordinating special events inside and outside of the UH Hilo community. It also plans festivals and workshops, and handles UH Hilo’s commencement exercises each semester.

“We look at our unit as an extension of the university’s marketing department, as a way to help showcase UH Hilo,” Fox-Goldstein said.
She and a staff of seven, whom she refers to as “eventologists,” help plan everything from site location to accommodations for attendees to food and beverage and technical support for events and workshops. The center also interns UH Hilo students.

“Judith has reinvented all the traditional concepts of what a nonprofit, government or university program can do to be competitive and to survive, especially during difficult economic times,” a colleague said. “She leads by example and has an exhausting — and inspiring — work ethic that sets the standard for everyone who works with her.”

The conference center also runs the Hawaiian EDventure Travel Program, which coordinates learning tours for out-of-state visitors.

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