March 6, 2023
Important Dates
- March 7: Registration opens for Summer Sessions for continuing senior students (90+ credits)
- March 8: Registration opens for Summer Sessions for all continuing students
- March 13–17: Spring break
UH News
- Student Housing improving facilities, resident experience
- Sexual assault prevention training available to UH students
- Hawaiian Word of the Week: Maopopo
- UH News Image of the Week: Pond
Read more UH News stories
Resources
Visit the Student Success website for a complete list of resources available to support wellness and academic needs including mental health services, academic advising, tutoring, veteran services, campus employment, career planning and more.
Events
Campus Center and Student Life
- Bookstore March Madness Daily Sale
Monday, March 6 – Friday, March 10 • Mānoa Bookstore - PACE x UH Esports
Monday, March 6 • 4:30pm–6:00pm • Shidler E-402 - Spring 2023 Career Fair
Tuesday, March 7 • 10:00am–1:00pm • Campus Center Ballroom - East-West Toastmasters Leadership/Public Speaking Club Meeting
Tuesday, March 7 • 12:00pm–1:00pm • Hemenway Hall 215 and Online - Harbors Vintage Pop-Up
Wednesday, March 8 • 10:00am–3:00pm • Campus Center - Financial Forecasting Workshop with SumoSum
Wednesday, March 8 • 4:30pm–6:30pm • Shidler E-402 - CCBAC’s Silent Disco
Wednesday, March 8 • 6:00pm • Campus Center Ballroom - Summer Registration Kick-Off Fair
Thursday, March 9 • 10:00am–12:30pm • Campus Center Courtyard - Reusable Pad Workshop
Thursday, March 9 • 10:30am–1:30pm • QLCSS 412 - Spring Recess
Monday, March 13 – Friday, March 17 - Bookstore Monthly Sale – March
Now through Friday, March 31 • Mānoa Bookstore
View all Campus Center Board Activities Council events or view all Student Life events
Study Abroad Informational Meetings
- Semester in Shanghai, China
Monday, March 6 • 2:00pm–3:00pm • Moore Hall 104 - Semester program in “Two Italies,” Italy
Tuesday, March 7 • 11:00am–12:00pm • Online - Semester in Florence, Italy
Wednesday, March 8 • 1:00pm–2:00pm • Dean Hall 6 - Semester in Adelaide, Australia
Wednesday, March 8 • 1:30pm–2:30pm • Moore Hall 155A - Semester in Shanghai, China
Thursday, March 9 • 1:00pm–2:00pm • Online - Semester in Seville, Spain
Friday, March 10 • 1:00pm–2:00pm • Dean Hall 6 - Semester in London, England
Friday, March 10 • 3:00pm–4:00pm • Dean Hall 6
View all Study Abroad events
Arts and Culture
- 3rd UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Honolulu
Tuesday, March 7 • 4:30pm–8:30pm • Campus Center 307-309 - Trace and Memory: Memorial Photography in Modern Japan
Thursday, March 9 • 3:00pm–4:30pm • Moore Hall 258 - Honolulu Chamber Music Series: Trio Karénine
Sunday, March 12 • 4:00pm–6:00pm • Orvis Auditorium - ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters
Now through Sunday, March 26 • Art Building, Art Gallery - East-West Center Gallery Exhibition: In the Folds
Now through Sunday, April 16 • East-West Center Gallery - Ukrainian Folk Costumes Display
Now through Sunday, April 16 • East-West Center Gallery
View all Art events or all of the Theatre and Dance events
Academic
- Library Research Skills for Graduate Students
Tuesday, March 7 • 11:00am–12:30pm • Hamilton Library - Peace Corps Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 7 • 7:00pm–8:00pm • Online - Is a Fulbright in Your Future? An Event for Faculty
Wednesday, March 8 • 11:30am–12:45pm • Kuykendall 106 - GREs Overview
Wednesday, March 8 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - Mock DAT/GRE/MCAT
Saturday, March 11 • 9:00am–1:00pm • Online - Kwansei Gakuin University Information Session
Tuesday, March 14 • 3:00pm–4:30pm • Online - Mānoa Political Internship Application
Due Wednesday, March 15 • 12:00pm • Saunders 633A - Virtual Writing Room
Every Tuesday from 9:30am–11:30am • Every Thursday from 1:30pm–3:30pm • Online
View all Academic events
Community
- Restaging Capt. Cook: Kanaka Ōiwi Women Making History in Territorial Hawaiʻi
Monday, March 6 • 12:00pm–1:15pm • Sakamaki A201 and Online - Public Talk: Dr. Wing-Kai To, Finalist for Asst. Provost, Global Engagement
Tuesday, March 7 • 3:30pm–4:30pm • Hamilton Library 306 - What We Mean When We Say “That’s Racist” Fanon’s Dialectical Concept of Racism
Wednesday, March 8 • 12:30pm–2:00pm • Sakamaki A201 - Migrations, Labor, and Smallholder Livelihoods
Wednesday, March 8 • 3:00pm–4:30pm • Online - Ke Aʻo Mau Community Sessions: Reflecting on our Genealogies
Wednesday, March 8 • 5:30pm–7:30pm • Gartley Hall 103 - Damu, color concepts, and chief in Fijian with Apolonia Tamata, Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence
Thursday, March 9 • 12:00pm–1:15pm • Biomed B-104 and Online - The Future of the Visitor Industry in the State of Hawaiʻi
Thursday, March 9 • 1:30pm–3:00pm • Online - Hawaiian Women’s Sexual Labor, Commercial Capitalism & U.S. Commerce in 1820s
Friday, March 10 • 12:00pm–1:15pm • Sakamaki A201 and Online - An Engineering Solution to Restoring Wai: Kānewai Spring and Kalauhaʻihaʻi Fishpond by Chris Cramer and Hina Ioane
Friday, March 10 • 2:00pm–3:00pm • Online - Restoring Health Equity In Hawaiʻi – Participate in Health Disparities Research
Wednesday, March 1 – Friday, March 31 • Life Sciences Building 227
View all Community events
Athletics
- Women’s Golf
- Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational • Monday, March 6 – Tuesday, March 7 • Hoakalei Country Club
- Softball
- vs Utah • Monday, March 6 • 4:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Niagara • Thursday, March 9 • 6:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Fordham • Friday, March 10 • 6:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Iowa State • Saturday, March 11 • 3:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Fordham • Saturday, March 11 • 5:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Iowa State • Sunday, March 12 • 12:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Niagara • Tuesday, March 14 • 2:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs UC Santa Barbara • Friday, March 17 • 6:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs UC Santa Barbara • Saturday, March 18 • 2:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs UC Santa Barbara • Saturday, March 18 • 4:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- Women’s Soccer
- vs NW Missouri State • Monday, March 6 • 4:45pm • Lower Campus
- vs Catawba • Thursday, March 9 • Lower Campus
- Men’s Volleyball
- vs Purdue Fort Wayne • Thursday, March 9 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs Penn State • Friday, March 10 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs UCLA • Saturday, March 11 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs Long Beach State • Friday, March 17 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs Long Beach State • Saturday, March 18 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- Women’s Beach Volleyball
- vs Texas • Friday, March 10 • 9:00am • Queen’s Beach
- vs Nebraska • Friday, March 10 • 12:45pm • Queen’s Beach
- vs Oregon • Saturday, March 11 • 10:15am • Queen’s Beach
- vs Washington • Saturday, March 11 • 2:00pm • Queen’s Beach
- vs California • Sunday, March 12 • 11:30am • Queen’s Beach
- vs Nebraska • Tuesday, March 14 • 9:00am • Clarence T.C. Ching Complex
- vs Texas • Tuesday, March 14 • 6:30pm • Clarence T.C. Ching Complex
- Baseball vs UConn
- Friday, March 10 • 6:35pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Saturday, March 11 • 6:35pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Sunday, March 12 • 1:05pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Monday, March 13 • 6:35pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Women’s Water Polo
- vs USC • Friday, March 17 • 6:00pm • Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex
- vs San Diego State • Saturday, March 18 • 6:00pm • Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex
View all Athletics events
Mānoa Opportunities
Become a Rainbow Warrior (NRW) Peer Leader!
New Student Orientation and Ānuenue Connection Program is recruiting UHMazing students to serve as New Rainbow Warrior (NRW) Peer Leaders! NRW Peer Leaders will: serve as a point-of-connection to new incoming UH Mānoa students (first-year and transfer); facilitate small/large group interactions, develop workshops and coordinate events; develop skills in areas such as leadership, mentorship, event planning and communication; Have the opportunity to network and connect with on-campus offices and resources; Receive a stipend pay (distributed throughout commitment term) Term of commitment is from Summer 2023 to May 2024. To apply, visit https://manoa.hawaii.edu/welinamanoa/. Application will be available on Friday, March 10th at 8:00am HST. Deadline to apply is Friday, March 31st at 4:00pm HST. For more information or if you have any questions, email uhmnso@hawaii.edu.
Scholarship for Nutritional Research
The Roth-Vegetarian Endowed Scholarship assists students who are studying nutrition or are engaged in study or research directly related to fostering vegetarian nutritional habits and practices. Preference will be given to graduate students, however, undergraduate seniors may also apply. Candidates must be a practicing vegetarian. Award is for the 2023–2024 school year. Application is available via the STAR Scholarship site using keyword “Roth”. Deadline is April 5, 2023.
IELTS USA Andrea Scott International Graduate Scholarship
The Andrea Scott International Graduate Scholarship awards $5000 in annual tuition scholarship and is renewable for 3 years pending good academic standing. Applicants must have a valid IELTS Academic score within the last 2 years and be admitted or enrolled in a Masters or PhD program for Fall 2023. This scholarship is open to international students studying social justice; criminal justice reform; women’s rights/women’s studies; creative arts; diversity, equity & inclusion; educational access and equity; international studies or policy; or higher education leadership. Apply by April 18, 2023.
Entering Research & Creative Work (ERC) Funding for Undergraduate Students ($1,500–$3,000)
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) coordinates and promotes research and creative work opportunities for UH Mānoa undergraduate students in all disciplines. ERC funding is intended for students early in their academic careers, with little to no research or creative work experience, to get introduced to and explore research and creative work with a faculty mentor. UROP provides up to $1500 per semester and up to $3000 for two consecutive semesters. The Spring 2023 application deadline is 5:00 PM, April 20th. Register to attend information sessions to learn more and click here to learn about other opportunities offered by UROP!
Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs
The new student housing facility, across the street from the UH Mānoa campus, is accepting leasing applications for Fall 2023. Open to ALL MAJORS, RISE presents a new way for makers and doers to connect, collaborate, and innovate within an integrated living/learning community. Student residents will enjoy not only a brand-new housing community, but proximity to the wealth of programs offered by PACE that will be centered in the classroom, recording studio,makerspaces, meeting rooms, co-working spaces on the floors right below. Learn more at rise.hawaii.edu.
Presentation Funding for Undergraduate Students ($2000–$5000)
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) coordinates and promotes research and creative work opportunities for UH Mānoa undergraduate students in all disciplines. UROP invites students who are conducting or have conducted faculty-mentored research or creative work to submit a proposal for Presentation Funding, which provides funds to present their project or work at a local, national, or international conference/event, either in-person or virtually. UROP strongly encourages interested students to apply three months prior to the event. Register to attend information sessions to learn more and click here to learn about other opportunities offered by UROP!