Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The below is quoted directly from an email sent by the Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program: The Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the Spring 2015 semester. The Scholars Program supports Native Hawaiian students attending either the University of Hawaii at Hilo or the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who are currently majoring in or intend to major in a healthcare field. Eligible students may receive stipends to assist with community service and/or internships and research projects in respective healthcare fields. This past year, students who participated in the Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program worked with the program’s various community partners to complete and advance their development in the health fields. Participating students worked with organizations such as the Queen’s Medical Center, the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Na Pua Noeau, the UH Hilo Kipuka Native Hawaiian Student Center and the Queen Liliuokalani Children’s Center. Students...

The below is reproduced from an email circulated by the Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program: The Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the Fall 2014 semester. The Scholars Program supports Native Hawaiian students attending either the University of Hawaii at Hilo or the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who are currently majoring in or intend to major in a healthcare field. Eligible students may receive stipends to assist with community service or internships and/or research projects in respective healthcare fields. The Fall 2014 application is now available and can be downloaded from the Na Pua Noeau website at   npn.uhh.hawaii.edu . The deadline for the Fall 2014 semester is   Friday, August 29, 2014 . For more information, contact Kehau Bishaw-UH Manoa Program Coordinator at bishawbh@hawaii.edu ,   (808) 956-9410 , or Rachel Hualani Loo-UH Hilo Site Coordinator at   loorache@hawaii.edu ,   (808) 932-7759 .

The Below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies: The Renee Heyum award is a partial tuition scholarship for Pacific Islanders awarded every spring for the following academic year through the STAR scholarship database application system:   https://www.star.hawaii.edu: 10012/Scholarship_live/login. jsp    While most of the scholarships on STAR have a deadline of Feb. 14 th , the Heyum award’s deadline is  midnight, March 7 th . If you login to the database above and search for HEYUM you’ll find the description of the award. If you click “apply” in the top right hand corner you will see what I have attached here as a PDF. The application requires a couple of PDF documents to be uploaded to the application site, including a 3 page statement (details on the attachment), and scanned unofficial transcripts (STAR transcripts are ok). You will also need the names and email addresses of three people who can write refe...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Iọkwe koṃ aolep Free tuition for 201 Intermediate Marshallese through UHM Outreach College again for fall semester.  This is a special opportunity to take 4 credits of a Pacific language for only $180.50 (administration fees). See the attached flyer for additional details.  Please pass this announcement on to your networks. Thank you,  Katherine -- Katherine Higgins, PhD Outreach Director Center for Pacific Islands Studies University of Hawai'i at Manoa Moore 212 1890 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-2658

The below is quoted directly from a release circulated by the UH-Manoa Department of English: Announcing the Amos P. and Edna Lee Leib Fellowship for Graduate Study of  Literatures of the Pacific Application Deadline: April 23, 2012 Notification of Award: April 27, 2012 For the next four years, the Amos P. and Edna Lee Leib Memorial Fellowship  for the Graduate Study of Literatures of the Pacific will support one  graduate student  each year pursuing the study of literatures of the Pacific  (defined as Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian) at the graduate-level  through the English Department, the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and  Literatures, or in any graduate program at UHM. Pacific literatures must be  the primary focus of the applicant's studies and special consideration will  be given to those students whose career goals include the teaching and  dissemination of Pacific literary texts within the regions listed above....

The UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies has announced that its Master's Program has been accepted into the Western Regional Graduate Program. This means that students from 15 states in the western U.S. are eligible to pay in-state tuition when enrolling in the Master's degree program. Eligible states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. For more information, click here or visit the Center's Facebook page .

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies: The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is pleased to announce the Heyum Endowment Fund scholarship for 2012. The Heyum Endowment Fund, at the University of Hawai'i, was established by the late R Renée Heyum, former curator of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, to assist Pacific Islanders pursuing education and/or training in Hawai'i. Funds are available to support one scholarship in the amount of $3,000 for the 2012–2013 academic year, and qualified individuals are invited to apply. The application can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/ academic_programs_6.html . If you have any questions, please contact Dr Julie Walsh at jwalsh@hawaii.edu .

The below message was recently circulated by Richard Eves, of the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program at Australian National University. For more information, please follow the links:   Dear Colleagues, I wish to draw your attention to the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Pacific Research Colloquium -   Developing Pacific Scholarship to be held on the ANU Campus 30 January - 10 February 2012. The Research Colloquium i s envisaged as a training opportunity for younger Pacific Islands researchers and we are offering a Pacific Scholarship Award for eight places to graduate students and scholars from universities, research institutions and professional bodies in the Pacific Islands to attend. Full travel costs to and from Canberra, plus accommodation, will be paid to successful Pacific Islander applicants. For more information see the following: http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/...

The below is quoted in entirety from an email circulated by Jane Barnwell, Director of Library and Information Literacy Initiatives at Pacific Resources in Education and Learning (PREL): LIS Scholarship Application This is a great opportunity for funding.  The LIS Scholarship application is also open.  Applications must be submitted by April 1 for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 awards.  The application is located at: http://www.lis.unt.edu/main/Forms/ScholarshipApplication/ Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Call for Applications http://www.arl.org/news/pr/IRDW-1march11.shtml Deadline June 1, 2011 For more information, contact:  Mark A. Puente  Association of Research Libraries  202-296-2296  mpuente@arl.org (mailto:mpuente@arl.org) Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is  accepting applications for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce  (IRDW), a program designed t...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the University of Oregon. For more information, please contact Megan Sullivan (contact info at end of email): Dear International Educator Colleague, My name is Megan Sullivan and I'm an International student advisor at the University of Oregon . The University of Oregon offers many scholarship opportunities for international students and one specifically to students from the Pacific Island Nations. I have attached a pdf with more information for you to review. If you know of students who are interested in coming to the University of Oregon please share this with them via email or post it on your publications board.   I would like to specifically call your attention to one of the International Affiars Endowed scholarships that is offered specifically to students from the Pacific Island Nations. Please see the desc-ription below. Last year we were unable to award this scholarship because we had no app...

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) and the University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Library and Information Sciences, have announced a joint scholarship program for candidates from American Samoa; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI); the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap); Guam; the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); and the Republic of Palau. The scholarships will be available to up to twenty-three students, and allow them to enroll in UNT's online master's degree in library sciences. For more information on the scholarship program, click here.

The below is quoted directly from an e-mail press release. For more information, please see contact information at bottom: MOREHOUSE COLLEGE PROJECT: IMHOTEP Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Scholarships Application Deadline: January 31, 2010 The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are providing four scholarships to qualified Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) undergraduate (juniors and seniors) and recent graduates (class of 2009) for the Project: IMHOTEP internship program for summer of 2010. The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Alliance is working with APIAHF, and CDC to promote Project: IMHOTEP as part of their efforts to increase the number of NHPI public health and health care professionals. NHPI applicants who are not selected as scholarship are still eligible for the general selection process by Morehouse College . Please visit www.apiahf.org/imhotepstudents for...