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Woochul Lee, to implement educational and mentoring initiatives to grow the participation of Native Hawaiians in engineering. UH Mānoa is one of a few Native Hawaiian minority-serving four-year institutions, and is the only institution in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands granting engineering degrees from a bachelor of science through PhD. Lee and his team believe UH Mānoa serves a critical role in supporting Native Hawaiians in engineering. The researchers will use a cultural psychological approach to identify potential cultural barriers for entering graduate engineering programs, deve...

This story was originally published in our April issue of The DN magazine. Read the intro here, and pick up a copy on stands now. When Claire Jumper was choosing which college she wanted to attend, she was looking for somewhere to meet a lot of people.  Since the pandemic, Jumper, a freshman psychology major, said she has not been out to eat or attended any parties or large gatherings. Her sister has asthma, so she did not want to take any risks. “I’m naturally a big extrovert, so it’s been hard,” Jumper said. “Throughout high school, I was always somewhere on the ...