{"id":91020,"date":"2019-02-19T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=91020"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:05:23","slug":"ewc-graduate-student-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/19\/ewc-graduate-student-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate students from 25 nations gather to focus on Asia-Pacific research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Dewi Setiani, a master’s degree student in education at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, shares her research presentation case study at the EWC<\/abbr> International Graduate Student Conference. (Photo: East-West Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 80 graduate students from 39 universities in 25 nations gathered at the East-West Center<\/a> (EWC<\/abbr>) adjacent to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> campus in February to present their research at the 18th annual International Graduate Student Conference<\/a>. The interdisciplinary gathering, planned and organized by EWC<\/abbr> participants who are pursuing graduate degrees<\/a> at UH<\/abbr>, is among the largest of its kind worldwide. About 35 of the conference participants were UH<\/abbr> students.<\/p>\n

“Thanks to the East-West Center, this annual conference offers graduate students a unique opportunity not only to present their research in a professional setting, but also to get involved in organizing an academic meeting, which can be invaluable career experience,” said student conference chair Smrity Ramavarapu<\/strong> from India.<\/p>\n

The three-day conference held February 14–16 at EWC<\/abbr>’s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Imin International Conference Center<\/a> included 25 panel sessions focusing on the Asia-Pacific region and interactions with the U.S.<\/abbr> The primarily self-funded presenters were selected from 207 graduate students who submitted paper abstracts.<\/p>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Supreme Court Associate Justice Sabrina S. McKenna<\/strong>, a graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, delivered the conference’s keynote address titled “Gender, Sexuality and Access to Resources: One Woman’s Story.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Although UH<\/abbr> and EWC<\/abbr> are separate institutions, they have long been close partners and neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The East-West Center hosts an international conference February 14–16 that was planned and attended by UH<\/abbr> students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[10,1363,9],"class_list":["post-91020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-east-west-center","tag-manoa-research","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\/91020","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=91020"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91075,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91020\/revisions\/91075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}