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The Rainbow ʻOhana Program, a new LGBTQ+ Center service and honors society at UH Mānoa, is a peer mentorship program that started in fall 2021 with 30 participants.

The inmates took classes through distance learning and correspondence.

The virtual competition runs June 25–27, 2021.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa women’s water polo team won its second consecutive Big West Championship. For the fifth time this season, the No. 1 seed Rainbow Wahine defeated No. 3 seed University of California Irvine ( UCI) 9-8 in a title match that took all 32 minutes to decide. This was also the fourth Big West Championship title in program history. The ’Bows will head to Los Angeles, Calif., May 14–16 and continue the journey to an NCAA title. Sophomore Emma van Rossum was na...

Rep. Sonny Ganaden presented a congratulatory certificate signed by members of the legislature to Department Chair Ty Tengan on April 26. The Hawaiʻi State Legislature recognized the 50th anniversary of the ethnic studies program in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Rep. Sonny Ganaden, a former instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Department of American Studies, presented a congratulatory certificate signed by members of the legislature to ...

NASPA). NASPA, which has 15,000 members, because it, “exemplifies how to support a growing student population that often requires a unique type of assistance.” Nationally, more than 20% of all students are parents themselves, and 70% of those students are mothers who find they are often invisible and overlooked on campuses. SP@M helps build a community of supporting students who are “pursuing education while parenting.” Teresa Bill, the SP@M. The two programs work closely together to ...

DNLR/ DAR) The first hatchery-raised sea urchins outplanted in Kāneʻohe Bay are 10-years-old, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit ( DAR) are celebrating the milestone anniversary. The sea urchin hatchery, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) and DAR, successfully transplanted the first cohort in January 2011 and has since released 600,000 sea urchins across the state. Project staff raise the sea urchins until they’re la...

KCACTF) Region 8 winner for lighting design, and Christine Chang, regional runner up for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award and recipient of the Summer Arts Scholarship Award ($1,500). Christine Chang “Instead of creating displays for a physical exhibition, entrants had to put together a slideshow/gallery of their work and record a 5-minute presentation for the new online format,” said Sorensen, a senior theatre major. “As soon as I saw my name pop up, it felt like coming down from ...

A team of faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture and Department of Urban and Regional Planning earned a national award for its “Just Play” project, a set of coordinated courses in architecture, landscape architecture and urban and regional planning. Just Play received the 2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change and Society. Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Association of Col...