University of Hawaii at Manoa - Graduate Division

Will you be a Teaching Assistant (TA) this fall? Be sure to sign up for TA Training (TAT)! All new TAs are required to participate in this FREE training sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), Graduate Division, and the English Language Institute. Continuing TAs can attend as well. Participants can earn a TA Digital Badge!

Register for Fall TAT happening August 17-19, 2026! https://www.ofdas.hawaii.edu/tat

Congrats to UH Mānoa grad students and alums for being selected as 2026 Knauss Fellows. Dr. Gabrielle Ellis, Jonathan Rosen, and Sarah Woo are spending one year focusing on critical marine policy issues in Washington, D.C. representing the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program (Hawai‘i Sea Grant). Read about their journey and the important contributions of Knauss Fellows. https://go.hawaii.edu/iCg

If you're interested in the Health or Health IT field, check out this opportunity! https://go.hawaii.edu/kCi

Flashback to one of the highlights from this past spring semester when UH Mānoa graduate students participated in a 3-part series to develop their research outreach skills. GROW, Graduate Research Outreach Workshop, culminated in a research outreach fair at Waipahu Intermediate School where over 60 middle-school students, faculty, and staff attended. Read about the impact of GROW: https://go.hawaii.edu/iYm

Graduate Division is excited to host New Graduate Student Orientation (NGSO) starting August 3rd. Begin your journey with On demand topic sessions that help you build a successful start to your graduate student career! Save the date for August 17th - our always popular NGSO Resource Fair & Activities Day! See the latest details by visiting our NGSO webpage at go.hawaii.edu/iUf

Still celebrating our grads! Congrats to Dersel Bonai who recently received his Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture this spring. Bonai became the first person in his native tribe’s family lineage from West Papua to earn a master’s degree. Read about Bonai's journey to grad school and his capstone project at https://go.hawaii.edu/iQo

Photo: Bonsai and his UH Community Design Center team at Keālia Pond during their community engagement event in West Maui.

Registration is still open for the Bioinformatics Core at the University of Hawaiʻi JABSOM. Registration closes May 22nd at 4 pm HST. Space is limited. Register at https://go.hawaii.edu/fMi

Congratulations Graduates! We look forward to seeing you at Commencement on Saturday, May 16th! Remember to review details on the UH Mānoa Commencement website.

If you're celebrating a graduate, please review the guest information.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/commencement/

Congrats to the Spring 2026 GROW Cohort who did an outstanding job sharing their research and engaging with students at Waipahu Intermediate School on April 30th. WIS students were excited to learn about UH Mānoa graduate student topics such as electricity & engineering, deep-sea corals, vaccines, AI & art, language learning, architecture, connections in history, and bacteria in insects.

GROW is a 3-part professional development series that builds graduate student research outreach skills so they can communicate their research to general public audiences in interactive and engaging ways. Rooted in Research, Reaching Communities!

GROW was co-sponsored by Graduate Division, College of Engineering, UH Mānoa's Hamilton Library, and the Center for Communicating Scientific Information.

The first cohort of the Sustainable Fisheries Graduate Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will start this fall. Half of the cohort are supported through fellowships from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hawaiʻi Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) and a Hawaiʻi-based philanthropic organization. Read about this new program and the significant support it's receiving as it launches. https://go.hawaii.edu/y6i