{"id":26194,"date":"2014-07-29T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=26194"},"modified":"2021-10-28T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:56:51","slug":"uh-students-attend-fellowship-program-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/29\/uh-students-attend-fellowship-program-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students attend fellowship program in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_26359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26359\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mosaic-taiwan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mosaic-taiwan-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mosaic-taiwan-2-260x178.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_26358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26358\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mosaic-taiwan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mosaic-taiwan-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mosaic-taiwan-1-260x164.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Asuncion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kelly Park<\/strong>, an incoming graduate student and alumni of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa school of economics and political science, along with fellow <abbr>UH<\/abbr> alumni <strong>Jasmine Asuncion<\/strong>, were 2 of the 30 selected outstanding scholars from the <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> to participate in a three week fellowship program led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan under the initiative of President Ma Ying-jeou.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Video<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PHjk50YdhFo\"> A Land of Happy Versatility in Asia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mosaictaiwan.net\/\">Mosaic Taiwan<\/a> is an exchange program that gives <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> scholars and leaders the opportunity to experience the vibrant culture of Taiwan in hopes of creating a vested interest in global affairs and international understanding. The program ran from June 15 to July 5, during which time participants took part in team-building and leadership development exercises, tours of various businesses, museums and sites, and meet and greet sessions with government officials, educators, community representatives and young leaders in Taiwan with President Ma Ying-jeou and Vice President Wu Den-yih among representatives.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having first hand experience living in Taiwan and building friendships with Taiwanese people and its future leaders allowed me to create personal connections and my own sense of what Taiwan is all about,&rdquo; said Park. &ldquo;I also realized that <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Taiwan share many similarities in its character, warmness of the people and challenges that they face in the global society. With collaborative efforts and continued friendship building, I believe that we have many things to learn from each other, especially in the field of environmental sustainability, public transportation,  education, and native population and business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Among other activities, students had the opportunity to visit the Lushan tribe in Taitung and the Bulau Bulau tribe in Yilan, two aboriginal Taiwanese tribes on the eastern coast of Taiwan. &ldquo;It was truly the highlight of the program and also an intriguing experience that made me think about how the Native Hawaiian culture is preserved and practiced in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; said Park.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Mosaic Taiwan, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/mosaictaiwan.net\/\">Mosaic Taiwan website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Ching<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students Kelly Park and Jasmine Asuncion are among 30 outstanding scholars to attend fellowship program in Taiwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-26194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26194"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150740,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194\/revisions\/150740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}