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The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies: We are pleased to announce the Norman Meller Research Award competition for 201 ​4​ . If you or other faculty in your department have Pacific-focused students who completed MAs during the 201 ​3​ -201 ​4​   academic year, we hope you will pass the following announcement on to them. If you have any questions, please contact Terence Wesley-Smith at twsmith[at]hawaii.edu.   NORMAN   MELLER   RESEARCH   AWARD The Norman   Meller   Research   Award   o f $250.00 is given annually to the best MA research paper produced at the University of Hawai'i in the social sciences or humanities and focused on the Pacific Islands. Plan A theses, Plan B papers, or MA portfolios are eligible. Submissions may be made by students or by nominations from the faculty, and are not limited to students in the MA program in Pacific Islands S...

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. NORMAN   MELLER   RESEARCH   AWARD The Norman   Meller   Research   Award   o f $250.00 is given annually to the best MA research paper produced at the University of Hawai'i in the social sciences or humanities and focused on the Pacific Islands. Plan A theses, Plan B papers, or MA portfolios are eligible. Submissions may be made by students or by nominations from the faculty, and are not limited to students in the MA program in Pacific Islands Studies. The submissions are read by a panel of judges, who consider the overall quality of the submission, the depth of the research it represents, and the significance of the work in the field of Pacific Islands Studies. Of particular interest are submissions that employ interdisciplinary approaches and/or include indigenous epistemologies and perspectives. The judges reserve the right to recommend th...