Honoring Alice Augusta Ball

February 28, 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Mānoa Campus, at the Chaulmoogra tree (mauka of Bachman Hall)

The campus community is invited to honor and celebrate Alice Augusta Ball, the university’s first Black graduate and a pioneering scientist who discovered an effective treatment for Hansen’s disease (leprosy) using oil from the Chaulmoogra tree.

Speakers will include ֱ and community members who will pay tribute to Alice Ball.

February 28 was proclaimed as “Alice Augusta Ball Day” in Hawaiʻi by Gov. David Ige in 2022 (Read the ֱ News story)


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