Alexander Mawyer, a project lead and associate professor and director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at UH Mānoa. 

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Ferns and other plants contribute to a verdant campus. 

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We need to hear from the range of Americans about these topics, which means understanding the diversity of ideas and experiences and potential solutions that they bring with them.

Kiawe trees are a feature of the lush UH Mānoa campus.

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UH Mānoa is punctuated with trees native to the Hawaiian ecosystem.

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Today’s students seek to study issues of justice and practice, including Ho’oleia Ka’eo, a graduate student in the Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health program at the UH Mānoa.

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Cathryn Hope Clayton, associate professor and chair of the Asian Studies Department ​at UH Mānoa, who will co-lead the new EHEJ cluster, which promises to bridge environmental humanities and environmental justice.

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Climate change impacts are already present in everyday life. They are driving politics. They are driving family-level decisions. They are driving young people's concerns about their own futures.

At the Crossroads of Asia and the Pacific

“Climate change impacts are already present in everyday life...” says Associate Professor Alexander Mawyer. Located at the crossroads of Asia and the Pacific, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is well stationed to explore climate effects.

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More than 50 percent of University of Hawai‘i students identify as Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.

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The UHM campus sits in the Mānoa Valley, located minutes from downtown Honolulu and in a landscape that is distinctly verdant. 

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With students, Alexander Mawyer, a project lead and associate professor and director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, aims to explore climate issues with a special focus on experiences of local Pacific Islander American communities and Asian American communities. 

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Hawai‘i Hall, built in 1912, was the first permanent building on the Mānoa campus.

Exterior view of Hawai‘i Hall at the University of Hawai‘i  at Mānoa campus

UH Mānoa is a research university attracting students from across the globe and offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees.

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By bridging ethnic studies to environmental humanities, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa emphasizes what we can learn from the histories and experiences of people from the Asia-Pacific region.

The Tree and the Canoe: Advancing Equity for AAPI in Environmental Humanities

A focal point of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Varney Circle is listed on Hawai‘i’s Register of Historic Places and symbolically connects old and newer parts of the campus.

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On the Syllabus: New Solutions to the Climate Crisis  

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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