April 7, 2025
Important Dates
- April 11: Theses and dissertations due to Graduate Division
- Until May 1: Registration for Spring 2025 commencement ceremony
UH News
- Video of the week: Native Hawaiian Plant Month!
- UH Hawaiian language production invited to global stage
- Planter bed project helps Hale Wainani residents bloom
- TikTok’s #tradwife trend rejects modern feminism, appeals to diverse members
- ʻŌlelo of the Week: ʻApelila
- Image of the Week: Baby seahorses
Read more UH News stories
Events
Campus Center and Student Life
- Sensory Room Mondays
Monday, April 7 • 9:00am–4:00pm • Kuykendall 106 - Brown Bag STEM Panel
Monday, April 7 • 11:30am–1:00pm • Campus Center 203E - Midday Reset: Chair Yoga Stretch
Monday, April 7; Friday, April 11; and Monday, April 14 • 12:30pm–1:00pm • Webster 112 - 2025 Spring Volunteer Fair
Tuesday, April 8 • 10:00am–2:00pm • Campus Center Courtyard - SNAP Outreach & Enrollment Clinic
Wednesday, April 9 • 10:30am–2:00pm • Campus Center Courtyard - Breathe & Reset: Mid-week Meditation Break
Wednesday, April 9 • 12:30pm–1:00pm • Webster 112 - Yoga for Academic Wellness
Wednesday, April 9 • 2:45pm–3:45pm • QLCSS 412 - Job Search Tips for New Graduates
Wednesday, April 9 • 3:00pm–4:00pm • QLCSS 212 - Student Housing Furniture Workshop
Wednesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 10 • 5:30pm–7:30pm • Hale Aloha Cafeteria - CSDC Resource Room Grand Opening
Thursday, April 10 • 12:00pm–2:00pm • QLCSS 313 - Kalo Grant Round 6 Live Pitch
Thursday, April 10 • 5:00pm–7:00pm • RISE Center, Level 2 - Pasifika Fest
Thursday, April 10 • 5:00pm–11:00pm • Hale Aloha Courtyard - Career Coffee Hour with Shannon Dorsey
Friday, April 11 • 11:00am–12:00pm - An Evening at the Honolulu Museum of Art for UH Mānoa students
Friday, April 11 • 4:00pm–6:30pm • Honolulu Museum of Art - Sexual Assault Awareness Month Resource Fair 2025
Monday, April 14 • 10:00am–1:00pm • Campus Center Courtyard - Resume and Personal Statement Workshop
Monday, April 14 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - CCBAC’s Aloha Bash – Kick Off
Early bird tickets available now through Sunday, April 20 - Call for Entries: 2025 HI Pride T-shirt Contest
Deadline to submit entries is Monday, April 21
View all Campus Center Board Activities Council events or view all Student Life events
Arts and Culture
- I AM MULAN
Wednesday, April 9 – Saturday, April 12 at 7:30pm • Sunday, April 13 at 2:00pm • Earle Ernst Lab Theatre - East-West Fest 2025
Sunday, April 13 • 2:00pm–6:00pm • Jefferson Hall - 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 - Miree Ya Kugani: A Bright Hopeful Future
Now through Monday, May 19 • Hamilton Library, Bridge
View all Art events or all of the Theatre and Dance events
Academic
- Virtual Writing Room
Monday, April 7 and Monday, April 14 • 1:30pm–3:30pm • Online - Applying to Law School
Monday, April 7 • 4:00pm–5:00pm • Online - Introduction to Zotero
Wednesday, April 9 • 12:00pm–1:30pm • Hamilton Library 306 - AI Basics Webinar for Grad Students
Wednesday, April 9 • 3:00pm–4:00pm • Online - Virtual Writing Room
Thursday, April 10 • 9:00am–11:00am • Online - Public Administration Program Info Session
Thursday, April 10 • 5:00pm–5:45pm • Saunders 541 or Online - 2025 Summer Startup Launchpad Application Deadline
Now through Friday, April 25 • RISE Center, Level 2 - Kalo Grant Round 7 Application Deadline ($500)
Now through Monday, April 28 • RISE Center, Level 2 - Study Abroad with MIX!
Now through Thursday, May 1 • QLCSS 206
View all Academic events
Community
- Celebrating Social Work Voices: 2025 Virtual Speaker Series
Monday, April 7 • Online - UH Giving Day
Wednesday, April 9 • All Day - Giving Day Sign Waving
Wednesday, April 9 • 7:00am–8:00am • Bachman Lawn - Transparency and Projection in Medieval Buddhist Sculpture: A Scholarly Conversation
Wednesday, April 9 • 12:00pm–1:30pm • Online - Memories of Injustice with Sam Mihara and moderated by Dr. Maya Soetoro
Wednesday, April 9 • 1:00pm–2:00pm • Online - Weather in Economic Models: From Supply and Demand to Climate Impacts
Wednesday, April 9 • 3:30pm–4:30pm • MSB 100 - CTAHR Conference – He ʻAʻaliʻi Kū Makani: Resilience Through Innovation
Thursday, April 10 – Saturday, April 12 • Campus Center - Loea: CTAHR’s 2025 Conference
Thursday, April 10 from 9:00am–4:00pm • Friday, April 11 from 5:30pm–8:30pm • Campus Center - Community Dialogues, Leveling Up: Quest for Understanding
Thursday, April 10 • 9:00am–10:15am in Agricultural Engineering Institute 114 • 10:30am–11:45am Online - The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic
Thursday, April 10 • 12:00pm–1:00pm • Online - All of Us or None: Movement-Building Migrant Stories to Confront Settler Carcerality
Thursday, April 10 • 12:00pm–1:15pm • Kuykendall 410 - Charting Your Course In An Uncertain World with Mark S. Bergman and moderated by Dr. Maya Soetoro
Friday, April 11 • 9:00am–10:00am • Online - Divergence and Alterity: Shrines, Sacrality & Performing arts in South & SEA
Friday, April 11 • 3:00pm–4:30pm • Online - Tokyo Alumni Pau Hana
Monday, April 14 • 6:30pm–8:30pm • Tokyo American Club - Hawaiʻi Botanical Society Meeting
Monday, April 14 • 7:00pm–9:00pm • Mānoa Public Library
View all Community events
Athletics
- Men’s Volleyball
- vs Long Beach State (Volleypaws Night) • Friday, April 11 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- vs Long Beach State (Show UH Mānoa Your Aloha Senior Night) • Saturday, April 12 • 7:00pm • Stan Sheriff Center
- Women’s Beach Volleyball – Senior Weekend
- vs California • Saturday, April 12 • 9:00am • Clarence T.C. Ching Complex
- vs Grand Canyon • Saturday, April 12 • 12:00pm • Clarence T.C. Ching Complex
- vs California • Sunday, April 13 • 3:00pm • Clarence T.C. Ching Complex
- vs Grand Canyon • Sunday, April 13 • 6:30pm • Clarence T.C. Ching Complex
View all Athletics events
Mānoa Opportunities
Recruiting Student Participants for Economic Experiments
Participate in fun and educational economic laboratory research experiments and earn money! See the UH News story for more details No economics knowledge needed. Duration: 1–3 hours. Register to become a participant. Questions? Email econexp@hawaii.edu.
Go Abroad with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program!
Live abroad while completing a graduate degree, conducting research, or teaching English with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Register for UH Mānoa’s April 23rd, 9:00 am webinar to learn details and how to apply.
Spring Sustainability Career and Internship Panel
Join ISR and OVPAS for the Spring Sustainability Career and Internship Panel, including speakers from public, private, and philanthropic sectors —lunch Included with registration!
Professional Mentorship Appointments
Have an in-person or online chat with a real-world professional via our Professional-in-Residence (PIR) and Virtual Professional-in-Residence (VPIR) programs to receive startup advice and guidance for your next venture.
Free prototyping services at PACE
The Maker Spaces and Recording Studio at the Walter Dods, Jr. RISE Center is open Monday to Wednesday to all UH students! Whether you’re working on a prototype, 3D printing, or recording your next project, stop by and bring your ideas to life.
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!
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!
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.