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Native Hawaiian academic fellowship program accepting applications
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 21, 2014—The Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2014-15 academic year. More information and application materials are available online at http://kohalacenter.org/mellon/about.html. The application deadline is February 28.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards $500,000 to The Kohala Center to continue doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship program
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 7, 2014—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently announced it would renew its support of the Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for an additional three years.
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Native Hawaiian scholars awarded 2013-2014 Mellon-Hawai‘i fellowships
Program offers support to emerging intellectual leaders from Hawai‘i
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—August 12, 2013—Five Native Hawaiian scholars were recently selected
for fellowships by the Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to
produce original research and advance their academic careers.
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Native Hawaiian academic fellowship program accepting applications
Doctoral and postdoctoral scholars committed to advancement of Hawaiian knowledge encouraged to apply
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 8, 2013—The Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2013-14 academic year. More information and application materials are available online at http://kohalacenter.org/mellon/about.html. The application deadline is February 25.
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Native Hawaiian scholars awarded 2012-2013 Mellon-Hawai‘i fellowships Program offers financial support to emerging intellectual leaders from Hawai‘i
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—(July 31, 2012)—Three Native Hawaiian scholars were recently awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowships to advance their academic careers. Marie Alohalani Brown, doctoral candidate in English at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Kaipo Perez III, doctoral candidate in zoology with a focus in marine ecology at UH Mānoa, received doctoral fellowships. Katrina-Ann R. Kapā‘anaokalāokeola Oliveira, Ph.D., Geography (2006), UH Mānoa, received a postdoctoral fellowship.
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Hawai‘i scholar recognized for postgraduate excellence
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—August 17, 2011—Hawai‘i scholar Keao NeSmith has been recognized by New Zealand’s University of Waikato for his excellence in postgraduate studies within the School of Māori and Pacific Development. NeSmith, a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the university in Hamilton, New Zealand, received the school’s 2011 Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao Postgraduate Excellence Award.
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Native Hawaiian scholars awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i fellowships
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—July 27, 2011—Four Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2011–2012 Mellon-Hawai‘i 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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Native Hawaiian fellowship program accepting applications
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 31, 2011—The Mellon-Hawai'i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Native Hawaiian doctoral and postdoctoral scholars has received funding for an additional three years. The Kohala Center recently received $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the program, and is now accepting applications for the 2011-12 academic year.
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Kamana Beamer lectures on living ahupua‘a
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—November 9, 2010—Kamanamaikalani (Kamana) Beamer, Ph.D., will present a Hawaiian perspective on thriving in a living ahupua‘a (Hawaiian land division usually extending from the mountains to the sea) in a Puana Ka ‘Ike (Imparting Knowledge) lecture in Kona and an Eia Hawai‘i presentation in Hilo.
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Territorial land laws and issues examined in upcoming book
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—June 22, 2010—University of Hawai‘i doctoral scholar and Mellon Hawai‘i Fellow Sydney Iaukea has signed a contract with 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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Native Hawaiian Scholars Awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowships
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—May 7, 2010—Five Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2010 Mellon-Hawai‘i 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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Native Hawaiian scholar awarded Allan Nevins Prize for dissertation
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—April 13, 2010—Dr. Noelani Arista, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Assistant Professor in History and 2008 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral Fellow, has been awarded the prestigious Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians for the best-written doctoral dissertation on an American subject.
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Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellow named to Kamehameha Schools land division post
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—March 24, 2010—Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, 2008 Mellon-Hawaii Postdoctoral Fellow, was recently appointed as Land Legacy Education Manager in the Land Assets Division (LAD) of the Endowment Group of Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii’s largest Native trust.
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Fellowships for Native Hawaiian Scholars
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—February 1, 2010—The Kohala Center invites native Hawaiian scholars to apply for the Mellon-Hawai'i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010-11 Program, which provides selected scholars the opportunity to complete their dissertations or to publish original research. Applications for the 2009-2010 fellowship program are being accepted through February 15.
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Kahiau Foundation supports Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowship Program
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—November 20, 2009—The Kahiau Foundation has announced it will join The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, and The Kohala Center in supporting the Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowship Program. The gift of $125,000 will be used to support the expansion of the Fellowship Program in the academic year 2010-2011 to support a total of five doctoral and postdoctoral fellows.
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Native Hawaiian Scholars Awarded Mellon Fellowships
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—September 2, 2009—Three Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2009 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows. Receiving the fellowships are University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa postdoctoral scholars Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui and Karin Ingersoll, and University of Hawai‘i at Hilo doctoral scholar Kauanoe Kamanā.
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Fellowships for Native Hawaiian scholars
KAMUELA, Hawai'i—December 29, 2008—The Mellon-Hawai'i 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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Native Hawaiian Scholars Awarded Mellon Fellowships
KAMUELA, Hawaii—August 22, 2008—Five leading Hawaiian scholars have been selected as the first cohort of Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows. Three postdoctoral fellowships of $50,000 each and two doctoral fellowships of $40,000 each were awarded to the winning candidates for the 2008-09 academic year.
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The Kohala Center Receives the Support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Establish Fellowship Program for Native Hawaiian Scholars
KAMUELA, Hawaiʻi and NEW YORK CITY—January 29, 2008 —The Kohala Center received $500,000 in support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship program for Native Hawaiian scholars.
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