Spring/Summer Alumni Activities
Many students, alumni, and affiliate faculty members presented at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, which was held 28–31 May at University of Texas, Austin. Kenneth...
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Congratulations to the center’s most recent graduates: Lesley Iaukea, Janniese Mulch, and Luseane Veisinia Moalapauu Raass. Janniese Mulch’s capstone project focused on contributions made by Compact of...
View ArticleUHM-ANU Memorandum
In June, UHM Chancellor Tom Apple visited the Australian National University (ANU) and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between ANU and UHM. The MOU enables programs for student exchanges and...
View ArticleThe Art of Excavation
Leilani Tamu, the 9th Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer in Residence, recently published The Art of Excavation, which was one of her writing projects during her 2013 residency at the...
View ArticleAncestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies
Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies, by CPIS affiliate faculty member Kapāʻanaokalāokeola Oliviera (Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language), provides examples of how Kānaka utilize...
View ArticleMaking Micronesia: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama
Making Micronesia: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama, by CPIS affiliate faculty member David Hanlon (chair of the UHM History Department), is a biography of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president...
View ArticleBaninnur: A Basket of Food
In collaboration with blackmail press in Auckland, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies recently published Baninnur: A Basket of Food, a special issue of the online poetry journal. The collection of...
View ArticleHawaiʻi Specialist Librarian Kapena Shim
Kapena Shim was born in Honolulu and raised in Southern California. After high school, Kapena returned to Hawaiʻi to study at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he began a journey of connecting...
View ArticlePacific Islander Tuition Funding at UHM
At the end of spring semester 2014, UHM Chancellor Tom Apple and Vice Chancellor for Students Francisco Hernandez provided funding to meet tuition differential of 50% for Pacific Islander students at...
View ArticleNew Scholarship Opportunity!
Scholarship opportunities for Pacific Islands language study for 2014-15 University of Hawai`i at Manoa Earlier this week we received word that our application for Foreign Language and Area Studies...
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