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Mellon-Hawaii Fellows Present Their Work
November 21, 2011
Four Native Hawaiian scholars are on their way to completing a prestigious fellowship. Hawaii Island's Kohala Center administers the program supporting a special kind of scholarship. HPR's Sherry Bracken tells us more from Kona.
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Truth Seeker
November 2, 2011
by Mindy Pennybacker
Cross-cutting between territorial and contemporary Hawaii, Sydney Lehua Iaukea’s brilliant memoir/ historical expose provides a gripping and revelatory read, endowed with all the trappings of romance, melodrama and ghost story. There’s a mysterious old family portrait, two young heiresses robbed of their birthright growing up in poverty, and Iaukea’s discovery of uncovered chapters in Hawaiian history, in the long-forgotten papers of her great-great-grandfather, Curtis P. Iaukea, that her book brings to light. As the author plunges into her research, shades of the past–her ancestor and Queen Liliuokalani–come to dominate her own life in scenes worthy of Julie and Julia, Rebecca, or Great Expectations.
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Peace of the Rainbow Radio Show
October 3, 2011
Mellon-Hawai‘i fellow Kekuewa Kikiloi, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Manoa), and Matt Hamabata, Executive Director of The Kohala Center, were interviewed live by Sonia Fabrigas, producer/host of Peace of the Rainbow, on Monday, October 3. The interview was broadcast statewide on OC16 TV, Morning Drive on AM 1080 Radio. During the hour-long interview, Kikiloi described his doctoral research in Papahānaumokuākea (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) Marine National Monument—rugged, windy, arid islands whose biological and cultural significance has earned them distinction as a world heritage site.
Kamehameha Schools names three finalists for top job
September 19, 2011
Kamehameha Schools has narrowed down the search for a new head of school for the Kapalama campus to three finalists, officials announced in a news release today. They are: Lee Ann DeLima, currently the headmaster of Kamehameha Schools Maui campus. J. Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, a professor of political science at UH-Manoa. Goodyear-Kaopua has helped to build UH's indigenous politics program. She received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Kamehameha Schools names headmaster finalists
September 19, 2011
Kamehameha Schools on Monday named three finalists for headmaster of its Kapalama Campus. The Honolulu private school is searching for a successor for Michael Chun, who said in May that he would step down in July 2012. The finalists are: Lee Ann DeLima, headmaster of Kamehameha Schools’ Maui Campus; J. Noelani Goodyear-Kapua [sic], a political science professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa and Earl T. Kim, superintendent of the Montgomery School District in New Jersey.
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From Punana Leo o Hilo to Oxford
August 13, 2011
By Peter Sur
For anybody who has questioned the value of a Hawaiian immersion education, consider the case of 'Oiwi Parker Jones. As members of Protect Kaho'olawe Ohana, his activist parents met in a courtroom following a protest. Raised by his mother in Hilo, he entered the first class of Punana Leo o Hilo in 1985, and stayed with the program until he was 15. Now 30, Parker Jones is a junior faculty member at England's University of Oxford, where he earned his PhD., and he was recently granted a prestigious $50,000 Mellon-Hawaii postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics.
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UH Hilo’s Kimura awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i fellowship
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—July 27, 2011— University of Hawai‘i at Hilo (UH Hilo) assistant professor Larry Kimura has been selected as a 2011–2012 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow. Kimura is one of four scholars receiving the fellowships in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics, and society.
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Kauanoe Kamana: The school principal champions Hawaiian immersion education
January 28, 2011
Punana Leo means "nest of voices," and at its start, the infants-to-preschool education program conducted all in Hawaiian was seen as that kind of a haven — a place where tots immerse themselves in the language at the feet of their elders. But baby birds do fly eventually. Kauanoe Kamana, 59, one of the two first scholars to earn a doctorate specifically in revitalization of indigenous languages, hopes to see the fruits of Hawaiian immersion education over more than three decades.
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Big Islander makes history with her degree
by Peter Sur
December 18, 2010
Kauanoe Kamana is a pioneer in the Hawaiian community, even if she is too humble to admit it. She's a founder and the president of the nonprofit 'Aha Punana Leo, which has revived the Hawaiian language with thousands of new, young speakers. She is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo's Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani College of Hawaiian Language, and principal of the Hawaiian immersion school Ke Kula 'O Nawahiokalaniopuu. Today, at UH-Hilo's fall commencement ceremonies, Kamana will receive a new honor -- a hood, a diploma and a doctorate in Hawaiian and indigenous language and culture revitalization.
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Territorial land laws and issues to be examined in a new book
UH doctoral scholar Iaukea refers to writings of her ancestor
June 30, 2010
University of Hawaii doctoral scholar and Mellon Hawai‘i Fellow Sydney Iaukea has signed a contract with the University of California Press to publish a book based on her 2008 doctoral dissertation, "E Pa‘a ‘Oukou: Holding and Remembering Hawaiian Understanding of Place and Politics."
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Historian Noelani Arista lays out aspects of her groundbreaking research on first contact between Euro-Americans and Hawaiians
June 9, 2010
Noelani Arista has received the prestigious 2010 Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians, a rare nod to a native American historian doing groundbreaking work on native history.
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Mellon-Hawaii fellows named
May 18, 2010
Two Big Island scholars have been selected as 2010 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral Fellows in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics and society.
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Kekaha boy awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowship
May 13, 2010
Keao NeSmith has been selected as a 2010 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral Fellow in recognition of his commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics and society, a press release states.
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Hawaiian scholars scoop top US fellowships to study at Waikato
May 10, 2010
In a New Zealand first, two Native Hawaiian scholars have won top US awards to complete their PhD studies at the University of Waikato.
The prestigious Mellon-Hawai’i doctoral fellowships are supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Kamehameha Schools, and are each worth US$40,000 (NZ$56,000) for the 2010-11 academic year, starting in September.
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Native Hawaiian scholars awarded Mellon-Hawaii Fellowships
May 9, 2010
Five Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2010 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics, and society.
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Fellowships for Native Hawaiian Scholars
December 31, 2008
The Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides Native Hawaiian scholars the opportunity to complete their dissertations or to publish original research. Applications for the 2009-10 fellowship program are being accepted by The Kohala Center.
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Fellowships for Native Hawaiian Scholars
December 30, 2008
By The Kohala Center
The Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides Native Hawaiian scholars the opportunity to complete their dissertations or to publish original research. Applications for the 2009-2010 fellowship program are being accepted by The Kohala Center.
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