Elizabeth Carr Holmes Scholarship

 

The Department of Second Language Studies has a number of scholarship funds that support student research and conference travel. Descriptions of these funds, their purposes, and application procedures and materials can be found at the following links.

 

The Elizabeth Carr Holmes Scholarship honors the memory of Elizabeth Carr Holmes, emeritus professor of Speech at the University of Hawai‘i. Professor Carr Holmes was widely known for her work in pidgin and creole languages and in ESL. She was also a a founding board member of the University of Hawai‘i Foundation.

In 1972, Professor Carr Holmes published a book titled "Da Kine Talk From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii", which became newly available through University of Hawai'i Press in ScholarSpace in 2019.

The Scholarship provides funds to enable full-time classified students in the BA, MA, AGC, and PhD in SLS programs to carry out program-related research. Priority is given in the following order: (1) to research for scholarly papers, theses, and dissertations; (2) to coursework designed to pilot materials or procedures for scholarly papers, theses, and dissertations; (3) pending availability of funds, to research deemed exceptional as part of SLS course requirements. All proposed research must have been reviewed by the IRB UHM Human Studies Program at the time of Scholarship application.

Donate to the Carr Holmes Scholarship Endowment
Click on Enter a Fund Account Number, then enter “20174803” in the Search for a fund by account number field. Or, visit this website directly to donate: www.uhfoundation.org/CarrHolmesScholarship

Apply for Elizabeth Carr Holmes Scholarship
To apply for the Carr Holmes Scholarship, the student should submit their application and IRB
approval letter to their advisor. The advisor adds their recommendation and then submits to the Department Chair and Program Specialist.