Jonah Panoke
Some University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-athletes are gaining a broader perspective and deeper learning experience with a customized approach to their college degrees. The Interdisciplinary Studies Program (
ISP) allows students to work with several academic departments and develop their own degree and path to graduation. The program’s goal is to provide students with diverse ways of thinking and the knowledge and skills necessary for their future professional endeavors.
Erika Sanchez,
ISP coordinator and
MFAdance candidate, created a series of features highlighting student-athletes in spring 2021 to highlight the accomplishments of the students on and off the field. They explained how
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa saw a record crowd at its annual open house event on January 23, which attracted more than 2,400 attendees from around the state and the world.
The Mānoa Experience normally brings hundreds of prospective students and their families to the campus each year. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held virtually and completely online. That enabled more participants from outside the islands to join the event. Attendees came from all over the world including Hawaiʻi, continental U.S. and countries such as Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea.
“The virtual Mānoa Experience allowed students and families the chance to enjoy ‘visiting’ the campus through the safety and comfort of their own home. Participants were able to see everything right on their screen,”
Cheryl Treiber-Kawaoka
Always an advocate for integrating the arts into the curriculum, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education Institute for Teacher Education (
ITE) instructor
HAEA) Art Educator of the Year. Treiber-Kawaoka recently retired after more than 20 years with
UH. She will be recognized at the National Art Education Association annual conference in March.
“Cheryl’s commitment to advancing art education in Hawaiʻi, despite the decrease of art in our public schools, has always left a lasting impression on our elementary teacher candidates,” said
ITE Elementary Education Program Director
Kuʻulei Serna. “Her fervor and quality instruction has motivated and empowered our candidates to incorporate the arts into their teaching.”
UH Mānoa programs.
Lance Collins and
Zachary Lum, features 11 Filipino folk songs translated into ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and two Hawaiian songs sung in Ilokano. Proceeds will benefit the Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic in the William
Collins, an attorney on Maui, earned five degrees from
UH his last was a
PhD in political science in 2010. Lum, a founding member of the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award-winning group Keauhou, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
UH Mānoa, and is currently pursuing his
PhD in political science.
“The goal of the project is to think of the futures of Hawaiʻi that aren’t necessarily mediated by the American experience and aren’t necessarily limited to plantation narratives, which is basically a derivative from the American story in Hawaiʻi,” Collins said. “The idea was to think of alternative futures where people who come to Hawaiʻi interact with the Hawaiian culture and language without the racial hierarchies or the media
(Photo credit: Team Lihue Lines Phoebe White, Ariel Dungca, Lynn Mayekawa, Kristyn Yamamotoya)
To help Kauaʻi and Honolulu counties respond to the challenges and opportunities that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center (
UHCDC) and
ISR) hosted a week-long Mayors’ Institute Design Tank that gathered planning and design teams from three universities. “Design Tank” is a hybrid problem-solving process developed by
UHCDC to integrate stakeholder and community engagement with proof-of-concept design inquiry, offering client institutions additional tools to define, prioritize, and plan capital development and improvements.
UH Mānoa design tank participants included