Events & News
Latest happenings at the COE
Current and Upcoming Events
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December 11, 2025 Brown Bag: A talk by Dr. Betina Hsieh
Event Details: Location: Wist 131 & online The College of Education Research Institute (CERI) and School for Teacher Education (STE) Invite you to a talk by: Dr. Betina Hsieh, Endowed Professor of Teacher Education and Teacher Learning for Justice at the University of Washington (Seattle) Moments & Movements: Counterstories for Critical Asian American+ Studies in…
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Dec 3, 2025 CERI Conversations: Growing Pilina, Seeding Ideas, and Building Local Research Connections
Event Details: Location: UH Mānoa Campus – Walter Dods, Jr. RISE Center (PACE) Growing Pilina, Seeding Ideas, and Building Local Research Connections Join us for a research incubator event where you can share research ideas, dream up possibilities, network with local school partners and UH staff who support faculty in seeking funding. As a group,…
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Nov 7, 2025 CERI Conversations: Living Ea – Enacting EAducation through Research with Teachers, Students, Schools, and Communities
Event Details: As we enter the month of November and the Hawaiian Independence Day holiday of Lā Kūʻokoʻa, we meet with faculty from the forthcoming Mataio Kekūanaōʻa Department of Hawaiian Education. This panel of scholars will reflect on how their research in Hawaiian Education simultaneously highlights and enables the enactment of EA in our classrooms,…
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Oct 29, 2025 – Research. Funding. Strategy. Discover OSPP
Event Details: The University of Hawai‘i has launched the Office of Strategic Philanthropic Partnerships (OSPP), a systemwide resource designed to expand and coordinate opportunities with corporate, foundation and non-government funders. At this brown bag event, OSPP team members will provide information about pathways to funding and foundation submission opportunities and describe how OSPP can support…
Research News Highlights
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COE Faculty Member, Alumna, and Doctoral Student Receive National Research Award
Associate Professor Dan Hoffman, in the UH Manoa College of Education Department of Learning Design and Technology (LTEC), was presented with the Outstanding Research & Theory Accepted Proposal Award at the 2025 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Conference for his work with recent LTEC graduate Jessica Chillingworth and current doctoral student Larry Nguyen. “I…
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COE Faculty Member Receives Grant to Create Community-Based Environmental Literacy Curriculum
Assistant Professor Clare Baek, in the UH Mānoa College of Education Department of Learning Design and Technology (LTEC), is part of a four-year, $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant program. She is a co-principal investigator for the project, Deepening Computational Thinking for English Learners by Integrating Community-based Environmental Literacy, with colleagues from the University of…
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COE Professor Publishes New Book on the Power and Complexity of Critical Friendship in Research
Critical Friendship as a Self-Study Research Tool: A Comprehensive Resource Exploring the Complexities, co-authored by Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer, is a part of the Springer Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices series (STEP, Volume 27). This new book by Dr. Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer and Dr. Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle offers both new and seasoned researchers a deeper understanding…
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COE Doctoral Student Wins National Research Award
Crystal Hafoka, who is completing her PhD in the College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (KRS), received the Larry Locke Graduate Student Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The award is given to the highest scored graduate student-led paper in the AERA Special Interest Group (SIG 93) for Research on…
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KRS Breast Cancer Exercise Study
The Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (KRS), in partnership with REHAB Hospital of the Pacific and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center (UHCC), released a summary of findings that are a culmination of six years of teamwork. KRS students provided the exercise intervention as part of their practicum, providing them with hands-on learning and direct…
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COE Faculty Member Wins Best Book Award
Professor Brent Edwards is the winner of the “Best Edited Book Award” from the Globalization and Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society. Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement Educational Foundations Professor Brent Edwards latest book explores a wide diversity of approaches to help understand the policy movement…
Congratulations to our AY 2024-2025 Doctoral Graduates!
Tiffany Akiyama, Alicia Balcombe, Tierney Barcarse, Andrea Blackwell, Darian Brothers, Ashley Callahan, June Davids, Anita Huang, Francisco Jumawan, Warren Kawano, Jewel Mahoe, Jennifer Matayoshi, Sean Mosier, Koran Munafo, Wendell Perry, Michael Saunderson, LaJoya Shelly, Jennifer Solmirin, Megan Terawaki, Faith Vietti, Robin Watson, Lauren Wetzell, Chanel Wong, Yu-Chieh Wu
