Events & News
Latest happenings at the COE
Current and Upcoming Events
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Sep 18, 2026: Building Research Practice Partnerships: Opportunities to Connect with Local Schools and Classrooms
Event Details: Location: Online Zoom Interested in exploring the potential to develop or situate a research project at a school or classroom site? Come explore the possibilities at a webinar designed to foster research practice partnerships. Connect with local school partners who welcome collaborations with COE faculty/staff and students. Representatives from University Laboratory School, Hanahau’oli…
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Hui Heluhelu (Reading Group)
Event Details: Location: In-person, Laʻialoha (University Annex 2) The College of Education Research Institute (CERI), in collaboration with the proposed Mataio Kekūanāoʻa Department of Hawaiian Education, with support from the Department of Curriculum Studies invites All COE Faculty and Staff to participate in a College of Education Hui Heluhelu (Reading Group). Join us on Queen Liliʻuokalani’s…
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2026 Graduate Student Research Symposium
Event Details: Join Us The Graduate Student Research Symposium ’26 (GSRS ’26) will take place on Saturday April 25, 2026 from 8:15am-1:15pm. This symposium will be an in-person event held at the UH College of Education. All UH College of Education Graduate Students and recent graduates (Summer/Fall 2025 grads) are invited to present at the GSRS ’26. You can present: Visit the…
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2026 GSRS Webinar #2: Developing Conference Posters and Presentations
Wed, Apr 1, 2026, 3:30 – 4:15 PM Event Details: Join us at this working session to get started or continue working on your GSRS ‘26 poster or oral presentation. We’ll share the GSRS Poster Guidelines and some best practices for presentations. During the session, you will have time to get started on your poster/presentation…
Research News Highlights
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COE Faculty Member Receives Outstanding Manuscript Award from National Athletic Training Journal
Erik Swartz, in the UH Mānoa College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (KRS), was awarded the 2025 Kenneth L. Knight Award for the Outstanding Research Manuscript by the Journal of Athletic Training, the official publication of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA). He was presented with the award at the 77th NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo on July…
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COE Faculty Member to Deliver Keynote Address at University of Sydney
Assistant Professor Sarah Fishstrom, in the UH Mānoa College of Education Department of Special Education (SPED), was invited to give the keynote address at the Successful Learning Conference 2026 in Sydney, Australia on June 30. With SPED since 2023, Fishstrom specializes in reading intervention and reading instruction. Her speech, Understanding the Fine-Grained Nuances in Anxiety–Achievement Relations,…
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COE Faculty Member Receives Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA
Associate Professor Kekailoa Perry, of the UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Department of Educational Foundations (EDEF), was selected for the Outstanding Dissertation Award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). His work, Hulikua: Aloha ʻĀina Theory, ʻŌiwi Guerrilla Praxis, and Pedagogy of Refusal, is a critique of the state of higher education in Hawaiʻi. “This…
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COE Students Present at National Educational Research Meeting
The UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Department of Educational Psychology (EDEP) had a large presence at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) annual meetings on April 7–12, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Four COE doctoral students and a recent graduate of the EDEP MEd program presented their…
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COE Faculty Member Presents Research on Culturally Responsive ABA at University of Washington
Assistant Professor Marija Čolić, in the UH Mānoa College of Education Department of Special Education, was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington (UW) on April 4, 2026. Each year, UW selects one individual from the Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) field whose research is innovative, thought-provoking, and impactful to visit their program. In Čolić’s…
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New Book on Global Education Policy
Congratulations to Professor Brent Edwards for Best Edited Book award from the Globalization and Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative & International Education Society for 2026! The Global Education Policy Field: Theorization and Problematization This book challenges conventional approaches to global education policy (GEP) by exploring its often-overlooked onto-epistemic and religio-spiritual dimensions. Through eight thought-provoking chapters, leading scholars critically examine how…
Congratulations to our AY 2025-2026 Doctoral Graduates!
Debralyn Arellano, Cara Chang, Kahealaniakealo Faria, Crystal Hafoka, Kahikukala Hoe, Edmond Lee, Jonah Nakaza-Koizumi, Yugang Zhou, Aldeen Austin, Christina Busby, Edward Cashman, Phillippe Fernandez-Brennan, Kathleen Hassler, Lindsay Kido, Diamond Miller, Lisha Padilla, Kelly Victor, William Wolff
