February 20, 2025
Important Dates
- March 1: Registration opens for the Spring 2025 commencement ceremony
- Until March 28: Restricted Withdrawal period (with a “W” grade) begins
UH News
- Video of the week: Check out the Mānoa Career Center!
- UH Mānoa student groups honor, uplift Black history and culture
- Growing the future: UH program brings modern business skills to local farmers
- Historic Native Hawaiian art unveiled at Honolulu Hale
- 2025 UH football schedule; Stanford, Arizona among opponents
- ʻŌlelo of the Week: Hoʻopaʻa
- Image of the Week: Aloha Kaua
Read more UH News stories
Events
Campus Center and Student Life
- Sensory Room Mondays
Monday, February 24 and Monday, March 3 • 9:00am–4:00pm • Kuykendall 106 - Mindful Mondays with Student Parents At Mānoa (SPAM) Program
Monday, February 24 and Monday, March 3 • 10:00am–10:30am • Online - Midday Reset: Chair Yoga Stretch
Monday, February 24; Friday, February 28 and Monday, March 3 • 12:30pm–1:00pm • Webster Hall 112 - PACE x eSports Level Up: Women in Gaming
Monday, February 24 • 4:30pm–6:30pm • RISE Center, Level 2 - Tips & Strategies for Career Fair Success
Tuesday, February 25 • 3:00pm–4:00pm • QLCSS 212 - Campus Clothing Swap
Wednesday, February 26 • 10:00am–2:00pm • Campus Center Courtyard - IPLL, Wea U Goin? Exhibit
Wednesday, February 26 • 11:00am–1:00pm • Campus Center Courtyard - Breathe & Reset: Mid-week Meditation Break
Wednesday, February 26 • 12:30pm–1:00pm • Webster Hall 112 - Career Fair Resume Prep
Wednesday, February 26 • 2:00pm–4:00pm • QLCSS 212 - Peace Corp Week 2025: Story Slam Watch Party
Thursday, February 27 • 1:30pm–3:30pm • QLCSS 412 - Career Fair Prep
Thursday, February 27 • 2:00pm–4:00pm • QLCSS 212 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department’s 50th Anniversary Keynote Address
Friday, February 28 • 9:00am–11:30am • Kuykendall 101 - Alice Augusta Ball Day
Friday, February 28 • 10:00am–10:30am • Chaulmoogra tree (mauka of Bachman Hall) - Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies’ 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Friday, February 28 • 3:00pm–5:00pm • Campus Center Courtyard - Entrepreneurship Live with Sara La Torre
Monday, March 3 • 4:30pm–6:00pm • RISE Center, Level 2 - Bookstore Monthly Sale – February
Ends Friday, February 28 • Mānoa Bookstore
View all Campus Center Board Activities Council events or view all Student Life events
Arts and Culture
- The Cliburn: Pianist Clayton Stephenson
Thursday, February 27 • 7:30pm–9:30pm • Orvis Auditorium - Rent
Friday, February 28 and Saturday, March 1 • 7:30pm • Kennedy Theatre - Come Play with Us! New Plays Festival
Saturday, March 1 at 11:00pm • Sunday, March 2 at 7:30pm • Earle Ernst Lab Theatre - Honolulu Chamber Music Series – Violinist Nathan Meltzer
Sunday, March 2 • 4:00pm–6:00pm • Orvis Auditorium - Heroes, Poets, Gods, and Monsters: From Gekkō’s Brush
Now through Sunday, May 4 • John Young Museum of Art - A Place for Sun: Sun Yat-sen’s Journey and Legacy in Hawaiʻi
Now through Friday, May 16 • Hamilton Library, Elevator Gallery
View all Art events or all of the Theatre and Dance events
Academic
- Virtual Writing Room
Monday, February 24 and Monday, March 3 • 1:30pm–3:30pm • Online - LSAT Logical Reasoning Workshop
Monday, February 24 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - Kalo Grant Round 5 Application Deadline
Monday, February 24 - Introduction to EndNote Online
Tuesday, February 25 • 12:00pm–1:30pm • Hamilton Library 306 - UH Law School Full-Time In-Person JD: Zoom Info Session
Tuesday, February 25 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - Imi Hoʻola Program
Tuesday, February 25 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - Public Administration Program Info Session
Tuesday, February 25 • 5:00pm–5:45pm • Saunders 541 and Online - Research Workshop: An Intro to Digital Humanities
Wednesday, February 26 • 10:00am–11:30am • Hamilton Library 306 - Virtual Writing Room
Thursday, February 27 • 9:00am–11:00am • Online - Graduating Student Global Seal of Biliteracy Testing
Thursday, February 27 • 9:00am–2:00pm • Moore Hall 153B - Department of Ethnic Studies Open House
Thursday, February 27 • 3:00pm–5:00pm • George Hall 301B - Zotero Bibliographic Management Badge Workshop
Friday, February 28 • 2:00pm–4:00pm • Hamilton Library 306 - LSAT Reading Comprehension Workshop
Monday, March 3 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online
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Community
- Water, Land, and Crops: Agricultures in China’s Core and Peripheries (17th–20th centuries)
Wednesday, February 26 • 12:00pm–1:30pm • Online - A Conversation on Maui Historical Society with Sissy Lake-Farm
Wednesday, February 26 • 1:00pm–2:00pm • Online - The Climate Data Lifecycle: From Measurement to Dissemination
Wednesday, February 26 • 3:30pm–4:30pm • MSB 100 - Talk Story Conflict Transformation in an Era of Rising Tensions
Wednesday, February 26 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - Unraveling the Migrations and Vertical Diving Behavior of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: Insights from pairing electronic tagging with satellite oceanographic data
Wednesday, February 26 • 4:30pm–5:30pm • Holmes Hall 247 - Community Dialogues, Narrative Perspective with Emma Hsu
Thursday, February 27 • 9:00am–10:15am in Agricultural Engineering Institute 114 • 10:30am–11:45am Online - How to Build a Good City
Thursday, February 27 • 6:00pm–9:00pm • 700 Bishop St. Suite 1701 - Kapwani Kiwanga: (In) Practice
Thursday, February 27 • 7:00pm–9:00pm • Art Auditorium - IPLL, Wea U Goin? Talk
Friday, February 28 • 10:00am–12:00pm • Moore Hall 258 - Feminist Anarchy without Apology: Honoring Kathy Ferguson
Friday, February 28 • 1:30pm–2:30pm • Kuykendall 101 - Monitoring Water Quality in Coastal Areas Using New Technologies in Field Instrumentation and Satellite Remote Sensing
Friday, February 28 • 2:00pm–3:00pm • Online
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Athletics
- Softball – OUTRIGGER Invitational
- vs Howard • Wednesday, February 26 • 6:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Jackson State • Thursday, February 27 • 6:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Jackson State • Friday, February 28 • 4:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Washington • Friday, February 28 • 6:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Howard • Saturday, March 1 • 12:30pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- vs Washington • Saturday, March 1 • 3:00pm • Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium
- Men’s Basketball
- vs UC Riverside (Paniolo Night) • Thursday, February 27 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs UC Davis (Show’UHM Your Aloha Senior Night) • Saturday, March 1 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- Baseball vs Northeastern
- Friday, February 28 • 6:35pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Saturday, March 1 • 6:35pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Sunday, March 2 • 1:05pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Monday, March 3 • 6:35pm • Les Murakami Stadium
- Men’s Volleyball
- vs UC Irvine (Dig Pink Night) • Friday, February 28 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs UC Irvine (Youth Volleyball / Family Night) • Sunday, March 2 • 5:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- Women’s Tennis
- vs UC San Diego • Saturday, March 1 • 11:00am • UH Tennis Complex
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Mānoa Opportunities
Student Basic Needs Survey
Your voice matters! Take the confidential UH Student Basic Needs Survey (6–12 min) to improve campus resources. Open until March 7, 2025. Mahalo for participating!
Science Research Grants
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, offers small research grants to graduate and undergraduate students. No membership required. Apply by March 15th for the Spring cycle.
New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (NM-LEEP)
2-year fellowship with deep tech entrepreneurs in Los Alamos and Sandia national labs. Access to seed capital, mentoring, & investors. Targeting advanced computing, AI, advanced materials, space systems, clean energy, biotechnology. Deadline May 8.
ForagerOne for Undergraduate Students
Are you a UH Mānoa student interested in doing research/creative work but don’t have a mentor? UROP invites UH Mānoa students to create a ForagerOne profile to network with potential research/creative work mentors. Attend an information session to learn more!
Entering Research and Creative Work (ERC) Funding for Undergraduate Students ($1,500–$3,000)
UROP invites UH Mānoa students with little to no research/creative work experience to submit a simple application (no proposal required!) with a mentor to receive an hourly stipend and explore what doing research/creative work is like. Fall/Spring application cycles available. Attend an information session to learn more!
Project Funding for Undergraduate Students ($5,000–$10,000)
UROP invites UH Mānoa students planning to conduct mentored research/creative work to submit a proposal and request funding for materials, travel, stipend, etc. Fall/Spring application cycles available. Attend an information session to learn more!
Presentation Funding for Undergraduate Students ($2,000–$5,000)
UROP invites UH Mānoa students interested in sharing their mentored research/creative work at a local, national, or international conference/event to submit a proposal and request funding for travel, stipend, etc. UROP encourages applying 3 months prior to the presentation date. Attend an information session to learn more!
Responsible Conduct of Research Module
UROP is hosting a professional development module to introduce UH Mānoa students to responsible conduct of research (RCR) — a standard practice for all research/creative work. We will cover topics including what RCR is and its importance in all disciplines, followed by real-life case studies. Registration is required.
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.