Marques Hanalei Marzan awarded USA 2003 Fellowship Marzan is a BFA alum of the Department of Art & Art History and currently Cultural Advisor at the Bishop Museum. He is a 2023 United States Artists (USA) Fellow. The Fellowships are annual $50,000…
Danielle Seid received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Danielle Seid is an Assistant Professor of the Department of English. Her NEH Fellowship was awarded to her project Beautiful Empire: The Asian/American Femme of the Televisual Age, 1950–1995.…
Honolulu Star-Advertiser article about U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia’s “talk story” session with UHM students The Honolulu Advertiser ran a story about Ambassador Richard Buangan’s visit to UHM in which he spoke about his local roots and his experiences abroad, and…
Brandy Nālani McDougall named 2023–25 Hawaiʻi State Poet Laureate McDougall is an associate professor of Indigenous studies in the Department of American Studies, and the director of the Mānoa Center for Humanities and Civic Engagement. Her first poetry collection, The…
Two UHM Dance Alumni Cast in “Michael Jackson ONE” in Vegas Fighting for a spot in one of Cirque de Soleil’s premier Las Vegas shows can be off-the-charts intense, mentally and physically. Yet, UHM Dance alumni Christianne Moss (BFA Dance ‘22)…
Jan Dickey Awarded Prestigious Golden Foundation Residency Jan Dickey (MFA, Painting 2018) was awarded the highly competitive Golden Foundation Residency. Over 600 international artists applied for 18 spots. Dickey will participate in the residency in upstate New York where he…
A three-year $1-million grant will launch a new Indo-Pacific Affairs Initiative and establish a Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs within the College of Arts, Languages. The federal funding was secured by U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono to provide education, training and professional…
Asian Studies Alumna consults for Disney Walt Disney Animation Studios sought Emiko Saraswati Susilo, Asian studies alumna’s, skilled artistry and expertise for the 2021 Southeast Asian-inspired, computer animated action-adventure film Raya and the Last Dragon. MORE on UH News
‘Speed-dating’ with ancient Japanese artifacts in EALL course Undergraduate students in Professor Pier Carlo Tommasi’s “Introduction to Classical Japanese” class examined textual artifacts in the library’s Japan Special Collection—a set of pre- and early-modern materials called kotenseki, to which undergraduate students are seldom…
ACM-affliated animators featured in CAFF An annual film festival that showcases a unique collection of cultural-based animated films from around the world will feature two films born out of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Academy for Creative Media (ACM)…