Student Research Awards

To encourage and support research in aging, the Center on Aging offers Student Research Awards once yearly to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Past grant awards were in the range of $200-800.

The deadline to submit research proposals is February 28, 2003. Follow these guidelines for proposal submission:

• Proposal should include goals and objecitves, method, expected outcome(s), timeline, and budget.
• Proposal must identify a faculty mentor.
• Memorandum from the faculty mentor must express commitment to advise the student in the research process.
• Submit 5 copies of a 3-5 page proposal.
• Final reports are due October 1, 2003 and will be synopsized in the Center on Aging newsletter.

 

For questions and inquiries please contact:

Center on Aging
Office of Public Health Studies,
John A. Burns School of Medicine
1960 East-West Road, Biomed C-106
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2319
Tel: (808) 956-5001
e-mail: cheang@hawaii.edu

The following are the previous Student Research Award winners:


2000 Awards

Name	Topic	Amount
Ann Marie Ryan	Exercise in Later Life: A Screening Tool for Admission into Senior Exercise Classes	$ 680
Jennifer Matsui	Elderly Filipino Women who Act as Caregivers	$ 685

1999 Awards

Name	Topic	Amount
Megaan Clark	Individual Differences in Human Neuromotor Information Processing and Proposed Screening Tests	$ 450
Chui Wai (Sarah) Yuan	A Study on the Determinants of Medicaid Long-term Care Placements	$ 500

1998 Awards

Name	Topic	Amount
Michael Cheang	Older Adults in a Fast Food Restaurant: An Ethnographic and a Grounded Theory Study	$ 260
Florence Long	Producing a Brochure on Anticipating Grief and Bereavement for Families of Dying Patients at Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi	$ 270
Rachel Herlicy	The Effect of Memory Stimulation on Functional Language in Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: Three Case Studies	$ 270
Kristi Nishimura	Screening for Fitness to Operate Vehicles	$ 200