APEC interns behind the scenes
Fifteen undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have been hard at work behind the scenes to help Hawaiʻi a major international event—the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting in Honolulu.
Led by Mānoa Department of Economics Chair Denise Konan, special advisor on APEC to University of Hawaiʻi President and APEC Hawaiʻi Host Committee member M.R.C. Greenwood, the student interns have helped in various ways.
Read in UH News: Students work behind the scenes to prepare for APEC
Chinese journalists train in Hawaiʻi
Over the past 30 years, 250 journalists from the People’s Republic of China have gained journalism skills and knowledge of Western culture at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Past Parvin Journalism Fellows include now prominent editors and foreign correspondents.
Basketball’s Asia road trip
Ten members of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa men’s basketball team spent 16 days in August playing exhibition ball, expanding their horizons and cultivating new fans in China and Japan.
Multicultural World War II camp
Primarily thought of as an internment site for Hawaiʻi residents of Japanese ancestry, the Honouliuli Camp in central Oʻahu also held Japanese, Okinawan, Korean and European prisoners of war and U.S. citizens of Italian, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish ancestry during World War II. A UH West Oʻahu team is unlocking the site’s long held secrets.
Evidence of ancient Chinese seafaring
Barry Rolett collecting sediment samples
Barry Rolett is interested in the evolutionary impact of rising sea levels, which may have triggered seafaring by early Fujian inhabitants in coastal China. He uses sediment coring to literally dig up the evidence of a maritime culture among probable predecessors to the Polynesian voyagers.
Read in Mālamalama: Tracing China’s ancient mariners.
Seeking Korea’s earliest people
Christopher Bae on site at a Korean cave
Christopher Bae is working with an interdisciplinary team that includes geoscientists and biological anthropologists to investigate caves in the mountains of the South Korean peninsula. He is seeking hominid fossils and other early deposits that could shed light on human evolution during prehistory Asia.
Read in Mālamalama: Seeking Korea’s earliest inhabitants
Ceramicists East and West
Mexican ceramicist Rosario Guillermo working with clay
A dozen ceramic artists from around the Pacific Rim gathered at UH Mānoa for four weeks of collaborative work with clay. The exhibition of artwork resulting from East-West Ceramics Collaboration V is on display through Dec. 9. at the UH Art Gallery on the Mānoa campus.
Pacific Islands Climate Science Center
UH’s Mānoa and Hilo campuses and the University of Guam will lead a new Pacific Islands Climate Science Center, one of eight regional centers established by the Department of the Interior to provide land managers with the best scientific information available on climate change.