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1 The The Graduate Graduate February 2016 February 2016 Newsletter Newsletter Inside Current GSO News Updates Current GSO News Updates Meet Your Events Chair (p.1) Events Events Photos: Town Hall Meeting (p.2) Spring Coffee Hours (p.3) Grad Student Pau Hana (p.3) G&A Awards G&A Awards January G&A Awardees (p.4) Featuring G&A Awardees (p.6-9) Contact Us! (p. 9) Contact Us! (p. 9) Meet Your Events Chair! Yvette Lacobie has recently been appointed as the GSO Events Chair. Read on for her introduction and her plans for great GSO events: “I’m in the Masters of Public Health program specializing in Epidemi- ology. I grew up in Houston, Texas! I wanted to get involved on campus and be a part of making graduate student life and engaging for all students. I am plan- ning some super awesome events for the spring semester so stay tuned! The events that the GSO hosts help bring to- gether the entire graduate student body. With our busy school and work schedules, it’s also important to make time to relax and take our minds off of the many to-do’s. The GSO Coffee Hours and other events are a great way for our student body to get together and have some fun.” Fun fact about Yvette: She’s been an extra on Hawaii 5-0, and East Bound and Down! She says about those experi- ences, “Even if you don’t make any shots...being on set is an awesome ex- perience.” Photo Credit: Yvette Lacobie
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The The GraduateGraduate

February 2016 February 2016 NewsletterNewsletter

Inside

Current GSO News UpdatesCurrent GSO News Updates

Meet Your Events Chair (p.1)

EventsEvents

Photos: Town Hall Meeting (p.2)

Spring Coffee Hours (p.3)

Grad Student Pau Hana (p.3)

G&A AwardsG&A Awards

January G&A Awardees (p.4)

Featuring G&A Awardees (p.6-9)

Contact Us! (p. 9)Contact Us! (p. 9)

Meet Your Events Chair!

Yvette Lacobie has recently been

appointed as the GSO Events Chair.

Read on for her introduction and her

plans for great GSO events:

“I’m in the Masters of Public

Health program specializing in Epidemi-

ology. I grew up in Houston, Texas! I

wanted to get involved on campus and

be a part of making graduate student life

and engaging for all students. I am plan-

ning some super awesome events for

the spring semester so stay tuned! The

events that the GSO hosts help bring to-

gether the entire graduate student

body. With our busy school and work

schedules, it’s also important to make

time to relax and take our minds off of

the many to-do’s. The GSO Coffee Hours

and other events are a great way for our

student body to get together and have

some fun.”

Fun fact about Yvette: She’s been

an extra on Hawaii 5-0, and East Bound

and Down! She says about those experi-

ences, “Even if you don’t make any

shots...being on set is an awesome ex-

perience.”

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Photos: Unionization Town Hall Event

Photo Credits: Amy McKee

and Ed Hoogland

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If you and/or your

constitutes would like to

represent your depart-

ment by hosting a Grad

Student Pau Hana one

week, please follow the

link below and add your

department information

to the Google doc:

Find sign up sheet here

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Name: Department:

Alyssa Agustin Oceanography

Lindsey Benjamin Oceanography

Seyed Eshraghi Mechanical Engineering

Md. Azmeary Ferdoush Geography

Janet Graham English

Min Namkoong Second Language Studies

Elita Ouk Public Administration

Kauahi Perez Tropical Plant and Soil Science

Nicole Schlaack Educational Psychology

Barnabas Seyler Botany

Jill Sommer Library and Information Sciences

Jamie Sziklay Zoology

Gerarda Terlouw Oceanography

Samantha Weaver Geology and Geophysics (Includes Geosciences)

Sherilyn Wee Economics

Johanna Wren Oceanography

Wei Zhang Theater

January G&A Awardees

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Featuring

G&A

Awardees

Seyed Eshraghi

The Power & Energy Society (PES) provides

the world's largest forum for sharing the latest in

technological developments in the electric power in-

dustry, for developing standards that guide the devel-

opment and construction of equipment and systems,

and for educating members of the industry and the

general public. Members of the Power & Energy Soci-

ety are leaders in this field, and they derive substan-

tial benefits from involvement with this unique and

outstanding association. The IEEE PES General Meet-

ing is the largest and most comprehensive of it’s type

in the world. The attendees of IEEE PES General

Meeting 2015 was around 3500 from all over the

world.

By attending this conference I had the

chance to meet lots of expert professionals in my

research field and become familiar with other re-

search in this area. Presenting my work as a poster

and receiving comments from them helped me to

reevaluate my work and gave me lots of ideas to im-

prove it and extend it as future work.

Md. Azmeary Ferdoush

This is Azmeary, and I am a Ph.D. student in Geography. Thanks for the partial support provided by the GSO for my summer 2015 pre-dissertation fieldwork in Bangladesh. I was visiting and observ-ing the enclaves of India situated in Bangladesh dur-ing May and June to document the exchange of these enclaves with India. After 68 years of negotia-tion, Bangladesh and India exchanged all their 198 enclaves on July 31, 2015.

I was interviewing the enclave residents, lo-cal political leaders, government officials and stake-holders to have a better understanding why some of these enclave dwellers chose to move from Bangla-desh to India and some not. I was also exploring the factors that determined their decision, the roles that the governments were playing on both sides, and how the exchange was being done. I visited three enclaves in Panchagar and Nilfamari districts of Bangladesh and carried out my pre-dissertation fieldwork. Based on this visit I am now coauthoring a book chapter, which is supposed to be published in 2017 by Routledge.

Source: Seyed Eshrahi

An enclave of India within Bangladesh.

Photo credit: Md Azmeary Ferdouch

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The The Graduate Graduate -- February 2016February 2016

Featuring G&A Awardees, cont.

Janet Graham

Thanks to GSO funding, I was able to partici-

pate in a graduate student conference sponsored by

the English department at Ohio State University enti-

tled “Violent Bodies” this past October. I presented a

paper concerning the portrayal of social death, agen-

cy, and violence in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and at-

tended all of the sessions offered over the two days

the conference was held.

The thematic focus of the conference on ex-

amining how violence is embodied textually, visually,

and politically corresponds to an area of active en-

gagement for me as a scholar. The opportunity to en-

gage in academic discourse with other graduate stu-

dents in my field helped me understand my work in a

wider context. From this experience, I learned how to

defend the relevance of developing counterhegemon-

ic readings of Ethnic American Literature by high-

lighting the theoretical and critical social relevance of

literary discourse.

Elita Ouk

I was given funding by GSO to travel to Cam-

bridge, MA to attend the Harvard Project for Asian

and International Relations. The conference brought

200 delegates from top universities around the

world to discuss issues and challenges in Asia to-

day. The panel that I was in was Human Rights. I got

the opportunity to engage with professors, activists,

and top experts in their fields and look at different

ways to approach issues related to the ongoing Ref-

ugee Crisis, Labor Exploitation, and Women Empow-

erment. I also met other delegates who are passion-

ate about solving issues and made contacts that are

useful for both my professional and academic ca-

reer. All this wouldn't be possible without the sup-

port and funding from GSO.

Photo Credit: Janet Graham

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Featuring G&A Awardees, cont.

Kauahi Perez

Aloha, my name is Kauahi Perez and I am a

PhD Candidate in the Department of Tropical Plant

and Soil Sciences. This past August I traveled to New

Orleans, Louisiana to attend the 112th American Soci-

ety for Horticultural Science Conference, one of the

largest attended conferences for horticulture re-

searchers, industry, academia, government, and stu-

dents to network and disseminate their horticultural

findings. I received a GSO Travel Award this past Jan-

uary to help recover the costs of airfare and accom-

modations for my very first trip to “Nawlins.”

Aside from enjoying the food and fun that New

Orleans, Louisiana affords any visitor, I also had a

blast at the conference. I presented a research post-

er, competed in an oral competition, presented at a

Teaching Methods Workshop, and even volunteered

as an undergraduate poster competition judge. More

importantly, my oral presentation in the Teaching

Methods Workshop ave me the opportunity to publish

a written manuscript on my oral presentation, which

has been submitted and currently waiting for review.

For me, the highlights of this conference

were being able to represent UH Manoa at this pres-

tigious conference and make valuable connections

with students, researchers, and instructors from

other institutions and industry. In addition, I enjoyed

exchanging tips with other graduate students on

how to improve various aspects of my research and

theirs. I had such a memorable experience at this

past conference that I am now gearing up for the

next ASHS conference. With the reimbursement

from the GSO award, I hope to put that towards this

year’s conference travel. Mahalo nui loa to the UH

Manoa Graduate Student Organization!

Barnabas Seyler

Between June-Dec. 2015, I was in China con-

ducting fieldwork in seven provinces, interviewing

more than 600 people primarily in Sichuan, Yunnan,

and Shanghai. This stage of my research project

required me to be in China to complete the majority

of my dissertation fieldwork (ethnobotany). I was

awarded a GSO grant this semester to purchase

qualitative data analysis software necessary to

code, organize, and analyze the 605 interviews I

completed last year. Photo Credit: Kauahi Perez

Photo Credit: Barnabas Seyler

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Featuring G&A Awardees, cont.

My dissertation’s main hypothesis is that the

loss of biodiversity results in an associated loss of

cultural knowledge. This hypothesis was tested last

year in relation to the orchid biocultural diversity in

Sichuan with four methodological components, and

the GSO’s generous support will enable me to bring

this project’s data analysis to completion. Sichuan

Province has the 2nd highest orchid diversity in China.

Many species are used in traditional Chinese medi-

cine; pressures resulting from their pharmaceutical

potential, rarity, and beauty, as well as from popula-

tion growth, logging, and dam construction, have put

many species at great risk of extinction.

Due to the large challenge posed by the diver-

sity of China’s orchid species and extinction crisis, I

intend to continue conducting research in China

throughout my career. I hope to follow up on my dis-

sertation by helping to establish a botanical garden in

Sichuan to address the keen conservation issues

there. The generous support of the GSO has aided me

push forward on this journey.

Wei Zhang

I am a PhD student in Comparative Theatre at

the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. My paper,

“Exploring Intertextuality in Brecht’s The Good Per-

son of Szechwan: Two Appropriations of Chinese

Xiqu Twelve Years Apart" has been awarded for the

Emerging Scholars Award Panel at the Association

of Asian Performance 2015 Conference in Montreal,

Canada.

This paper analyzes the adaptations of Chi-

nese chuanju and yueju in Brecht’s The Good Per-

son of Szechwan from the perspective of xiqu’s in-

novations and social transitions after the 1980s in

China. In comparing the Chinese xiqu productions,

Good Woman/Bad Woman from 2001 and The Good

Person of Jiangnan from 2013, I evaluate how

Brecht’s materialist critique of traditional Western

ethics was transformed into a general critique of

ethics in China, conditioned by its social and eco-

nomic situations. In addition, I seek to unfold the

transformations of regional theatre in dramaturgy

and performance forms, in the face of social ambiv-

alence between modernization and localization.

Photo Credit: Barnabas Seyler

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Featuring G&A Awardees, cont.

This year, the Emerging Scholars panel at the

AAP conference had many strong abstracts submit-

ted. It is a great honor for me to be selected for the

Emerging Scholars Award Panel to present my paper

at the AAP 2015 conference, which will not only help

to advance and improve my oral presentation and ac-

ademic writing during my PhD studies at UH-Manoa,

but also promote the development of my career in the

future.

Since many prestigious scholars attend this

event, I regard the AAP conference as a rare and

good opportunity to have professional communication

with my peers, scholars, and faculty, to acquire and

share new information and methodologies in my re-

search major. My paper is forthcoming in Fall 2016.

I deeply appreciate GSO funding award sup-

porting my conference travel in Montreal, Canada,

which has provided me a precious opportunity to pre-

sent my paper at the AAP 2015 Conference. Thank

you very much!

Comments, questions, con-

cerns, or ideas for the

Newsletter?

Please contact the

Newsletter Chair at

[email protected]


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