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CALL WEEKLY 2-25-2024

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SPRING 2024
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Chinese Corner – Chinese Lantern Festival 元宵节

organized by the Chinese Language Flagship Program

Monday, February 26, 3-4 pm 
Bio-Med T111 / Chinese Flagship Center

Chinese Corner is a bi-weekly event to introduce a variety of topics that are related to Chinese culture to the UHM community. For Fall 2023, we have prepared six interactive and engaging sessions. Each participant is promised an introduction to the topic as well as hands-on experience. Ask your Chinese teacher if this event is eligible for extra credit. 

Questions: chnflag@hawaii.edu

*Note: Basic conversational skill in Mandarin Chinese is required for the event.

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The 9th T&D Graduate Research Symposium

organized by the Department of Theatre & Dance

Tuesday, February 27, 3:30-7:30 pm
Sakamaki A201

The T&D Graduate Research Symposium offers students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly group of peers and faculty. It serves as an essential hub for graduate student practitioners and scholars to share new work and ideas in the Department of Theatre & Dance in the areas of Indigenous Performance, Dance Studies, Theater Studies, and Performance Studies. This event intends to strengthen the reach of the performing arts at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa through embodied practice, creative endeavor, and intellectual discipline. Symposium program / Questions: Kirstin Pauka (pauka@hawaii.edu).

Presenters:

Jane Traynor: “Mephistopheles in the Shinsaku Nō play, Faust: An Ai-Kyōgen Case Study”

Mariah Massengill: “Iki, Ki, Karakuri: The Pervasive Spirit of Karakuri in the Modern Era”

Arlo Chiaki Rowe: “Stop Impersonating Us: A Deep Dive into Yellow Face Minstrelsy as It Relates to Anime Culture”

Maggie Ivanova: “Dramaturgical Explorations in the Stage Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Dance Dance Dance”

Eun Bin Ladner-Seok: “’Young Forever’: Fantasy, Fetishization, and Reclaiming Youth”

Leah E. Ott: “Healing the Name Hillbilly: Restorative Storytelling for Restructuring the West Virginia Appalachian Narrative”

Emmanuele Mante: “Kadaugan sa Mactan 2019: Performing History and Reenactment”

Kavya Bhagawatula: “Hybridity in Dance”

Maria Teresa Houar: “Exotic Bodies, Occupied Territories”

Jonathan Clarke Sypert: “Reflecting and Remixing: Hip-Hop Retelling of the Life of ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia”

Lisa Nilsen: “’We Are Not Your Costume:’ An Examination of Cultural Appropriation within Burlesque, and the Differences between Appreciation and Appropriation”

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panel discussion

A Decade of Cross-Cultural Collaboration: How Hawaii Inspired China’s Children’s Museum Development

organized by the Center for Chinese Studies

Wednesday, February 28, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm HST
ZOOM registration

Over a decade ago, Chinese philanthropist Mr. NIU Gensheng had an unexpected visit to the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center (HCDC). Following this eye-opening experience, he promptly met with HCDC’s founder, Loretta Yajima, marking the beginning of a decade-long cross-cultural collaboration. Liane Usher, HCDC’s current president, will share HCDC’s local impact and how its cross-continent influence started. Dr. Ni Zhang will then discuss the collaborative efforts involving private foundations, government institutions, and non-profit organizations that led to the establishment of the two pilot children’s museums in China. Following video footage from these museums, Xin Liu will share the Children’s Museum Research Center (CMRC)’s current projects and ongoing impact on Chinese children’s museum education. The significant impact of these pilot children’s museums and CMRC on Chinese children, families, and early childhood education may serve as inspiration for cross-cultural projects.

Moderator/Organizer and Panelist: Ni Zhang, Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UHM. Dr. Zhang was the founding director for two pilot children’s museums in China as well as CMRC at Beijing Normal University (BNU). As a pioneer in children’s museum development in China, she also serves as the Ambassador in China for the International Association for Children in Museums. She graduated from the master of education program at Teachers’ College, Columbia University and earned her Doctor of Education Degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Other Panelists: 

Liane Usher, President of the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center, is a passionate educator and advocate for early childhood education. Since joining the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center in 2001, Liane has played a pivotal role in shaping the vision and mission of the organization. A graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and Psychology from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Xin Liu, Executive Director of Children’s Museum Research Center (CMRC) at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. Since joining CMRC in 2013, Xin Liu has been instrumental in various children’s museum projects, contributing his expertise throughout the planning, exhibition and program design, and operation phases. He led the drafting of the Guidance for Children’s Museums in China (2019) and the Practical Guidance for Children’s Museum Education in China (2021). He has co-translated Collective Vision: Starting and Sustaining a Children’s Museum, Engaging Young Children in Museums, and Object Lessons and Early Learning.

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lecture series on environmental humanities

Only Air: Trans Ontologies and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Speaker: Derrick Higginbotham, Associate Professor, English

organized by the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
 
Wednesday, February 28, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
KUY 201 + ZOOM
email ISR@hawaii.edu to register and for zoom link

Combining the cultural history of air with insights into trans ontologies, this paper analyzes Antony’s meditation on clouds in Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy Antony and Cleopatra. While Antony’s meditation on clouds has received little scholarly attention, critics energetically debate the changes that Antony undergoes because of his military losses to Caesar and his erotic affair with Cleopatra, experiences that mean Antony shuttles between Rome and Egypt. Often these debates presume that as Antony moves from one geographic location to another, his identities move from one form to another, which results in a completed transition. Instead, I propose that Antony moves from unchosen starting positions as a Roman and a man and transits to identities that are opaque and thus more difficult to put into words. Antony’s cloudiness challenges taxonomic impulses both in the early modern English past and in our present time. His cloudiness encourages us to think about transitioning as movement without any destination or necessary outcome; it enjoins us to relinquish our hold on certainty in knowing ourselves and others. This tragedy thus dramatizes some of the ethical conflicts and ontological possibilities that emerge when eco- critical and trans theories unite.

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talk

Crafting Japanese Immigrant Nationalism(s) in 1930s Hawai‘i

Speaker: Mire Koikari, Professor, UHM Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
organized by the Center for Biographical Research

Thursday, February 29, 12 – 1:15pm
Kuykendall 410

Prior to WWII, Japanese immigrant nationalism flourished in Hawai‘i. At the center of this little-known phenomenon were imon bukuro (comfort bags), handmade by immigrant women and gifted to Japanese soldiers—those aboard the navy training vessels calling Hawai‘i as well as troops deployed in the distant battlefields in China. The gendered patriotic campaign was part of the larger tale of Japan’s empire-building in which island and homeland, gunboat and sewing needle, and territorial conquest and seaborne expansion all played crucial roles.

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lecture

Afro Asia: Every Moment, A New State

Speaker: Joan Kee, Professor, University of Michigan
organized by the Department of Art + Art History

Thursday, February 29, 4:30 pm
Art Building, Room 101

On the final day of Black History Month, Professor Joan Kee will explore the rich and surprisingly understudied relationship between contemporary Black and Asian artists, the artworks that result, and the worlds that their connections initiate.

Joan Kee is Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity (2023), Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America (2019) and Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2013). She is a contributing editor to Artforum and was an inaugural Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Image info: Joseph E. Yoakum, Waianae Mtn Range Entrance to Pearl Harbor and Honolulu Oahu of Hawaiian Islands, 1968

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seminar/workshop

Spinoza and Asian Philosophy
Reading Pierre Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary (1702)

organized by the Department of Philosophy

Friday, March 1, 12:00-2:00 PM
Sakamaki Hall C302

Pierre Bayles (1647-1706) Historical and Critical Dictionary is one of the most important
sources on the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century Europe. It also offers insight into the early modern origins of comparative philosophy. During the seminar, Dr. Mateusz Janik
(Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Visiting Fulbright Scholar) will examine
Bayle’s remarks on Asian religious and philosophical traditions found in the dictionary entry
devoted to Dutch philosopher, Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677).

Reading materials available upon request from Dr. Janik at janikm@hawaii.edu.

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lecture

Enhancing Visibility Through Accessibility: Developing Open Educational Resources of Women-authored Texts through Student-Teacher Collaborative Initiatives         

LLEA Speaker Series
 
Monday, March 4, 12:30-1:30
Moore Hall 258
 
Benito Quintana will present a case-study on methodology and pedagogical approaches for the production of an Open Educational Resource (OER) in a student-teacher collaborative project. Dr. Quintana and the students of his UHM graduate seminar on Spanish Golden Age Prose approached their OER edition (2023) of El desdeñado más firme (1665), by Leonor de Meneses, from a two-fold perspective: as a way to broaden the accessibility and visibility of women-authored works of Spanish pre-modern literature, and as an innovative project-based strategy for the study of literature, language, and culture that reaches well beyond the term paper and the classroom.
 
MORE INFO: Joy Logan logan@hawaii.edu

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book talk

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

Speaker: JANE FERGUSON, Associate Professor: Anthropology, Southeast Asian History, School of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University
organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Monday, March 4, 3:00-4:30 pm 
Hamilton Library, Room: 306 or ZOOM (to register)

The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is frequently stereotyped as isolated, hidebound to Buddhist cultural foundations, or embroiled in military rule and civil strife. Its thriving, cosmopolitan film industry not only questions such orientalist archetypes but also provides an incisive lens to explore social history through everyday popular practices. Emerging from a vibrant literary and performing arts scene, Burmese talent and ingenuity spurred a century of near-continuous motion picture production. Dozens of local film companies have churned out thousands of films, bringing to life popular folk tales, tear-jerking dramas, and epic adventures for millions of adoring fans. Even during the purportedly isolated Burmese Way to Socialism years, local movie production continued, and ticket sales even increased. Glamorous stars adopted international fashions, yet inspired Burmese cultural pride in the face of foreign economic and political domination. From silent films depicting moral perils, to Hollywood remakes, to socialist realism and ethnic unity films, locally made motion pictures have captured the imaginations of Burmese people for over a century.

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in history: the colonial era, the parliamentary democracy period, and the Ne Win Socialist years. Author Jane M. Ferguson engages cinema as an interrogator of mainstream cultural values, providing political and cultural context to situate the films as artistic endeavors and capitalist products. Exploring how filmmakers eschewed colonial control and later selectively toed the ideological lines of the Burmese way to socialism, Siiver Screens and Golden Dreams offers a serious yet enjoyable investigation of leisure during difficult times of transition and political upheaval. By skillfully blending historical and anthropological approaches, Ferguson shows how Burmese cinema presents a lively, unique take on the country’s social history.

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lecture

Reteaching Southeast Asia: Towards critical urban pedagogy and scholarship in developing Southeast Asia

organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Michigan State University

Wednesday, March 6, 3:00-4:30 pm 
Moore Hall, Room: 258 or ZOOM to register

Speakers:
Ashok Das, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Priyam Das, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Moderator: 
Miriam Stark, UHM Department of Anthropology

 

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performance

BFA/MFA Dance Concert: Resonance

organized by the Kennedy Theatre, Department of Theatre & Dance

WED-SAT, March 6-10, 7:30 pm and SUN at 2:00 pm 

Department of Theatre and Dance presents a dynamic dance concert consisting of original Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Senior Projects and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Project choreography. Under the direction of Sami L.A. Akuna, this dance production is a celebration of the creativity of our undergraduate and graduate dancers and highlights their artistic development. The concert features selected works and new premiere performances for both the stage and screen by Kavya Bhagawatula (MFA), Carlee Kasadate (BFA), Katherine Koch (BFA), and Gabriella Raitano (BFA). Tickets range from $8-$18. MORE INFO

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Uehiro Graduate Student Conference

The Benefit of the Doubt: Skepticism – Epistemic and Moral

organized by the Philosophy Students’ Association

March 7-8, 2024
Day 1: March 7 – Campus Center Dining Room, 203E; 9:30am – 4:45pm
Day 2: March 8 – KUY 101, 9:30am – 5:05pm

Speakers from various institutions will explore skepticism in its many permutations (not only epistemic) and deal with questions around that theme.

Keynote speakers: 
Dr. Tamara Albertini, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau
Dr. Karen Jones, University of Melbourne

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faculty forum

Navigating the Decisions and Ethics of Authorship

organized by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship

Friday, March 8, 12 – 1 pm
Information Technology Center (ITC) Conferencing Room 105 A/B
To REGISTER

Session Moderator: Dr. Christopher Sabine, Professor of Oceanography, Interim Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, UHM

Presenters:
Linda Voong Human Resources Specialist, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Excellence, UHM
Dr. Jack Barile, Professor of Psychology, Interim Director of Social Science Research Institute, UHM
Dr. Peter Arnade, Professor of History, Dean of College of Arts, Languages & Letters, UHM
Dr. Julienne Maeda, Interim Dean of the UH Manoa Graduate Division
Dr. Sandra Chang, Professor & Graduate Chair, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology

Responsible authorship is vital to the ethical conduct of research and scholarship. Moreover, authorship and authorship order in a peer-reviewed journal are visual indicators that communicate one’s success. Graduate students experience increasing pressure to publish peer-reviewed research during their education. In fact, employers, particularly universities, evaluate candidates based on the number of peer-reviewed journal articles during their graduate studies. Moreover, undergraduate students, especially those who have their own research funding through UROP or other programs, expect to be published. However, decisions on who should be included as an author and in what order the authorship should be arranged are not easy to navigate. These decisions are complicated in cases when a faculty and a student decide to separate. Join us for a panel discussion on authorship negotiation and authorship order.

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lecturer + discussion

The American Peace Initiative: The Abraham Accords and US National Security Strategy

Speaker: Jason Olson, Ph.D., US Navy Foreign Area Service Officer, Pacific Fleet
organized by the History Forum

Friday, March 8, 12:30 to 2:00 pm
Sakamaki Hall A201

Olson will discuss U S interests in the Palestinian-Arab-Israeli and general Middle East relationships. He will also present the Middle East Integration Digital Archive (MEIDA) to gather and make accessible primary sources connected to Arab-Israeli integration and normalization, since 1967. This Archive seeks to gather those sources from different sources and perspectives. Dr. Olson brings to our Forum his scholarship and professional experiences.

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film screening

Edo Avant Garde

with director Linda Hoaglund
organized by the Department of Art + Art History

Saturday, March 9, 1:30 pm
Art Auditorium

Edo Avant-Garde (2019) explores how the concepts of abstraction, minimalism, and surrealism are all to be found in paintings of the Edo period (1603 – 1868), and reveals the pivotal role played by Japanese artists in setting the stage for modern art movements in the West.

This special screening will be followed by a conversation with director Linda Hoaglund, Stephen Salel (Robert F. Lange Foundation Curator of Japanese Art, Honolulu Museum of Art) and John Szostak (Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, UH Mānoa).

Continuing Exhibitions

exhibit

Sounding the Earth: Bamboo, Metal, and Wood Instruments of Southeast Asia

Co-curated by Teri Skillman (CSEAS Associate Director), Ricardo D. Trimillos (Emeritus, Ethnomusicology Program) and Rohayati Paseng (Southeast Asia Librarian)

Until May 20, 2024
Asia Collection, 4th Floor Hamilton Library, UH Manoa

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art exhibition

Legacy in Ink: Selections from the Print Collection of Charles Cohan

Until May 5, 2024
John Young Museum of Art (Krauss Hall)
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, & Sunday 12 – 4 pm

Charles Cohan, Professor and Area Chair of Printmaking in the Department of Art and Art
History is a celebrated printmaker, educator, and master printer. The prints presented in this exhibition were selected from over two thousand hand printed works on paper collected since 1984. The collection represents prints by fellow printmakers, printers’ proofs produced by Cohan’s Arm and Roller Press, international collaborative exchange portfolios, artists’ books, and zines. Featuring over fifty artists including Terry Adkins, Emmy Bright, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Allyn Bromley (in collaboration with Erin Goodwin-Guerreo, Jaime De la Torre, and Einar De la Torre), Lee Chesney, Andrea Dezsö, Sally French, Helen Gilbert, Charles Gill, Fred Hagstrom, Andrew Keating, Jacob Lawrence, Allison Miller, Abigail Romanchak, Joe Singer, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Vuyile C. Voyiya, William Walmsley, Judy Watson, WD40 (Walter Lieberman and Dick Weiss), and Judy Woodborne.

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exhibition

Kabuki in Hawai‘i: Connections through Time and Space

organized by the East-West Center Arts Program and Japanese Theatre Professor Julie A. Iezzi and Annie Reynolds

Until May 5
East-West Center Gallery

The exhibition features selected newspaper articles, advertisements, photographs, posters, and material objects from the unique 130-year Hawai’i kabuki history, and celebrates the individuals who over many decades devoted their lives to enabling this art to continue to thrive in Hawai‘i. MORE INFO

General Opportunities

MILS Call for Submissions Now Open

organized by the MILS Steering Committee

Submissions accepted online through March 1 via Google Form

The Mānoa Interdepartmental Language Symposium (MILS) is an annual symposium that brings together students, faculty and alumni engaged in language-related work at the University of Hawaiʻi to build connections and collaborations across disciplines and to share ongoing or completed projects. We are now accepting submissions for language-related research and creative projects at any stage of completion for presentation at this year’s symposium. Presentations will be in one of four formats: papers, posters, roundtables, and “speed presentations,” which are informal, five-minute overviews that introduce work focused on a specific geographic or language region. This event is open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and alumni. This year’s symposium will be held from April 5-7 on the UH-Mānoa campus. 

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Visions & Voices : Call for Submission

The Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center is thrilled to announce the call for submissions for the inaugural issue of Visions & Voices.

Visions & Voices seeks articles, commentary, essays, or short manuscripts addressing issues relevant to the Pacific islands. Deadline: March 31, 2024

Submissions should be between 800 and 1,200 words written for a general audience, and emailed to pireport@eastwestcenter.org. MORE INFO

Faculty & Staff Opportunities

more at CALL/for-faculty

UH Endowment for the Humanities 2024 Summer Research Awards

CALL Faculty are invited to apply for funds to support summer research projects that fall within a humanities discipline. Deadline: Wednesday, April 3, 2024. TO APPLY

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Book Publication Subvention / Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

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Travel awards, fellowships, and research stipends…

The Dean’s Travel Fund reopens for the new academic year for both faculty and staff. See LINK for this and other funding opportunities. If you do not know or have forgotten the password, email <gchan@hawaii.edu>

Student Opportunities

Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing

organized by the Hawai‘i Language Roadmap Initiative

Testing Dates : 3/19, 4/11, 4/23, 5/2 

9:30am – 2:30pm 

Moore Hall 153B (EWA Computer Lab)

The Hawai’i Language Roadmap is running our Spring Semester round of testing for the Global Seal of Biliteracy. These testing opportunities are available for students who are graduating in Spring or Summer 2024, who have graduated in Fall 2023, and for students in the Korean and Chinese Flagship Programs. Employers across the United States are using the Global Seal to certify employee language proficiency, and in 2023, the Hawai’i Language Bank began using the Seal to certify their interpreters. Earning the Seal can enhance your confidence in your language abilities while enhancing your prospects for employment. Students can sign up via the following form. 

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UHM in Taiwan – Summer 2024 Study Abroad

organized by the Chinese Language Flagship Program

application deadline: March 1
Summer Study Abroad: June 11, 2024 – August 3, 2024 @Taipei & Hsinchu, Taiwan

UHM in Taiwan began offering a summer intensive program for the Chinese Language Flagship Program students (hereafter Flagship students) in 2022 through collaboration with the host institution, National Tsing Hua University. UHM in Taiwan offers a unique learning experience that allows Flagship students to take full advantage of the various cultural and historical sites to achieve the language proficiency goals of The Language Flagship. The program will be held in two locations; the first 2 weeks will be based in Taipei, and the remaining 6 weeks in Hsinchu. The curriculum was constructed specifically for Flagship students by leading instructors from participating domestic Chinese Language Flagship Programs. Students will engage in experiential learning and complete a project-based language learning (PBLL) project investigating Taiwan’s history, culture, politics, and technology development. QUESTIONS: hnflag@hawaii.edu

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Hawaiʻi System Common Scholarship

Application now available for the 2024-25 academic year. 
4:00 p.m. (HST) March 1, 2024 deadline

Information and applications

questions: scholars@hawaii.edu / (808) 956-6203.

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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

coordinates and promotes opportunities for UH Mānoa undergraduate students across ALL disciplines and at ALL levels of experience to engage in mentored research and creative work. MORE INFO or contact urop@hawaii.edu / (808) 956-7492

UROP is offering three merit-based scholarship funding opportunities to undergraduate students in Spring 2024: 

Entering Research and Creative Work (ERC) Funding – Deadline: March 3, 2024, 5pm

Up to $3,000 per individual for two semesters

For students early in their undergraduate career to explore research/creative work in their discipline with a mentor – NO prior experience or proposal required!

Project Funding – Deadline: March 3, 2024, 5pm

Up to $5,000 per individual; up to $10,000 per group 

For students to propose mentored research/creative work project 

Presentation Funding – Rolling deadline, 3 months in advance strongly recommended

Up to $2,000 per individual; up to $5,000 per group 

For students to share their mentored research/creative work project off-campus 

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Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarships
 

A multitude of scholarships and their application forms can be found on STAR. Don’t forget to check them out this semester!

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