Center for Pacific Island Studies

awards

Tuition Waivers

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies offers a limited number of tuition waivers each semester. Tuition waiver application forms may be downloaded from the Graduate Division Web site or obtained from the center’s office. For further information, please contact the center directly.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships

Subject to funding, the center offers a limited number of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for full-time graduate students enrolled in a program combining area studies and foreign language training in Māori, Samoan, or Tahitian. The deadline for applications is 1 March each year. For further information and to download application materials, visit the UH FLAS Web site.

Heyum Endowment Fund Scholarship

The center’s Heyum scholarship, established by the late R Renée Heyum, former curator of the Pacific Collection at UH M_noa, awards a scholarship of up to $3,000 a year to an indigenous Pacific Islander enrolled at a campus of the University of Hawai`i. The deadline for the 2008–2009 competition is 20 June 2008. For more information, click here.

East-West Center

Adjacent to the University of Hawai‘i is the East-West Center, a public, nonprofit, educational and research institution that maintains a close and cooperative relationship with the university. The East-West Center offers fellowships to students from Asia, the Pacific, and the United States working toward higher degrees at the University of Hawai‘i. Prospective Pacific Islands studies students who are citizens of a developing member country of the Asian Development Bank may also be eligible to apply for one-to-three-year scholarships from the Asian Development Bank. For information on these fellowship opportunities, visit the East-West Center Web site, or contact the EWC–UHM Scholarship Office, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96848-1601; telephone: (808) 944-7735. For award consideration, applications must be postmarked by 1 November of the year preceding the grant award, which usually begins in mid-August.

Norman Meller Research Award

The Norman Meller Research Award of $250.00 is given annually to the best MA research paper at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa that is in the social sciences or humanities, and focuses on the Pacific Islands. Both Plan A theses and Plan B research papers and portfolios are eligible. Submissions may be made by students or by nominations from the faculty and are not limited to students in the Pacific Islands Studies MA program. Dr Norman Meller, a political scientist and founding director of the center, who passed away several years ago, bequeathed the gift that makes this award possible. To be eligible for the next award, papers completed during the previous academic year must be submitted by 30 September to Dr David Hanlon, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 215, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822.