Vera Hanaoka, a PhD student in Japanese language and linguistics at UH Mānoa, was selected as the Kobe College Corporation Japan Education Exchange Graduate Fellow for 2018–19.
Ruth Bingham, UH Mānoa faculty specialist, received the Carol Baffi-Dugan Award for Service from the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions.
Hawaiʻi CC's Joni Onishi, UH Mānoa’s Shannon Oshiro and the UH System Office of Human Resources and Office of Systems Integration have been selected as the university’s nominees for the Governor’s Awards for Distinguished State Service.
The UH Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature and Japan’s National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics have entered into a collaboration that expands endangered language research endeavors.
Betsy Gilliland and Georganne Nordstrom from UH Mānoa’s College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature each received a Fulbright Award for the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters, respectively.
Hyunwoo Kim received a National Science Foundation award to investigate how Korean-English bilinguals comprehend English, and how their native Korean language influences understanding of English.