The UHM Graduate Student Organization offers academic enrichment awards (for conference travel or registrations, etc) and merit based awards (anonymous, peer-elected awards across several categories). Our PhD student Janani Lakshmanan recently won one of these awards!
You can read more about these awards in general here. (Lakshamanan’s award is covered in the 2024-25 report available at that link.)
And you can find more about the program through the links above.
Master’s student Tanner Johnson is featured in a UH News article. Johnson is originally from Makakilo, is a graduate of Kapolei High School, and he is alumni of UH West Oʻahu in 2016. The article discusses Johnson’s path, and his desire to give back by supporting other Hawaiian students as they work through college and beyond. He is graduating with master’s degree in Spring 2025 under the guidance of Associate Chair Sarah Post.
The Robert and Doris Pulley Award in Mathematics from the ARCS Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, a national non-profit organization that boosts U.S. competitiveness by raising funds to support promising U.S. citizens in doctoral programs in the sciences, engineering, and medicine) has been awarded to the following students. Advisers in parenthesis.
Due to recent retirements, Leeward is a bit short of Mathematics Instructors lately.
Apply here: job ad
Due to the hiring freeze, they are only hiring Lecturers, but they will have several full-time Instructor positions available once the hiring freeze is over.
