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CALL LATELY #10
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Record-Breaking Donation of $3.5M Made to the Department of Music
A record $3.5-million gift from the Barbara Barnard Smith Foundation will fund the Department of Music’s first-ever endowed chair. The newly established Professor Barbara Barnard Smith Endowed Chair supports the university’s desire and commitment to revitalize its ethnomusicology program and honors the legacy of Barbara Smith, the late revered UH Mānoa professor who died in 2021.
“This is the first major grant from the Barbara Barnard Smith Foundation and the board is very pleased that it will recognize Professor Smith’s legacy at the University of Hawaiʻi while supporting the University’s commitment to enhancing the ethnomusicology program,” said Gregory Smith, the foundation’s president and nephew of the beloved professor. READ MORE
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Shuxian Luo, New Faculty in Asian Studies Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Shuxian Luo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies. Her research interests include maritime security in the Indo-Pacific, Chinese foreign policy, and U.S.-China relations. She has received the Council on Foreign Relations’ prestigious Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship, sponsored by the Stanton Foundation. This fellowship provides younger scholars studying nuclear security issues the opportunity to spend twelve months at the Council on Foreign Relations (in New York or Washington, DC office), conducting policy-relevant research. The selection process is highly competitive, with one or two candidates selected each year as fellows.
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2024 John Young Scholarship Recipients
Graduate Students: Richard Akamine (Music), Caroline Holmes (Art), Celia Langford
(Asian Studies), Lisa Nilsen (Theatre), Isabella O’Keeffe (Theatre), Chelsie Sen (Music), Joshua Tavares (Hawaiian Theatre), Tehya K. Taylor (English), and Sheldon Wong (Studio Art) each received $8,000.
Undergraduate Students: Florani Camacho (Fine Arts), Sierra Choi (English), Anne Di Martino (Creative Media), and Julian Myrland (Dance/Communication) each received $5,000.
John Young was a dominant figure in Hawaii’s art circles for 60 years. His artwork was known for its dynamic verve and fluid energy, whether in paintings of his signature prancing horses, coastal landscapes, or sketches. Today, Young’s works grace Hawaii’s homes, businesses, schools, and museums. The John Young Scholarship Endowment Fund was established to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing studies related to the arts.
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Dance faculty Pei-Ling Kao’s marked October Pride History Month with Are We There Yet, Baby?
Are We There Yet, Baby? was a provocative production that delves into an array of artistic expressions, such as monologues, contemporary dance, ritual, voguing, movement and acting improvisation.
The 27-member student cast is led by director and creator Pei-Ling Kao, an associate professor of dance. Kao’s intent is to creatively showcase the challenges that stem from conventional binary assumptions within society and education. READ MORE
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2023 Nippon Culture Day
Nippon Culture Day continues to grow in popularity attracting 858 people to the Campus Center Ballroom.
The event was organized by the Japanese Section within the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, the largest academic program of its kind in the United States. Nippon Culture Day gave high school and college students, and community members opportunities to experience traditional and contemporary Japanese culture first-hand via various games and other types of interactive learning opportunities. Those activities included tables for playing card games, such as Karuta and Hanafuda, or making origami. Fluent speakers of Japanese and musicians specializing in traditional Japanese instruments also gave impromptu lessons. Others led Ikebana or Tea Ceremony workshops. READ MORE
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Honolulu City Council Honors UH Bands for 100th Anniversary
UHM Bands received an honorary certificate from the Honolulu City Council recognizing the program’s 100th anniversary. The ceremony was held in the council chambers on December 6.
The band program began in 1923 as an 18-member drum and bugle corps. It has since flourished into one of the largest and most visible student organizations on campus. The program includes more than 300 students performing in the UH Rainbow Warrior Marching Band, three concert bands and five pep bands. These students entertain more than 400,000 spectators annually at football, basketball and volleyball games; concerts; and campus events through more than 100 performances each year. MORE INFO
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ART Alums Received Acquisition Awards from the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA)
Artworks created by UHM ART alums have been acquired for public viewing. Artists featured in the SFCA Art in Public Places Collection include UH Mānoa alumni Eduardo Joaquin (BFA) and Jenna Macy (MFA). Joaquin’s oil painting depicts the controversial sport of sabong or cockfighting, and Macy’s sculpture is made out of glass and nylon-laced ceramic. READ MORE
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