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HomeAboutEWC Coronavirus ResponseMission and OrganizationOriginsEWC SpecialistsFull DirectoryBoard of Governors Annual ReportEmployment OpportunitiesConference CenterCampus MapsVisitor InformationHousingDiversity StatementFriends of EWC siteGender EqualityEWC Overview Brochure Email UpdatesRSS FeedsSite MapHelpProgramsEducationEducation Program Overview Education Program Overview The East-West Center is a leader in educating people of the Asia Pacific region, including the United States, to meet the evolving demands and interdependency of global change. The Center offers a range of educational opportunities, bringing together more than 300 students each year from across the region. Opportunities for Study and ScholarshipEWC Student ExperienceEWC Graduate Degree Fellowship EWC Graduate Degree Fellowship The East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship provides funding for up to 24 months for Master s or Doctoral degree study for graduate students from Asia, the Pacific, and the U.S. to participate in the educational, residential, and leadership development programs at the East-West Center while pursuing graduate study at the University of Hawai‘i. Through East-West Center affiliation, awardees become part of a growing network of students and alumni forging the shape and substance of the world s most vibrant region.Asian Development Bank-Japan ScholarshipU.S. South Pacific Scholarship U.S. South Pacific Scholarship The U.S. South Pacific Scholarship Program, authorized by the U.S. Congress and funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program that provides opportunities for Master’s and Bachelor’s degree study at the University of Hawai‘i in fields that are directly relevant to the development needs of Pacific island countries. Applications are typically due February 1 for study beginning the following August. Visit our website for complete details.Obuchi Student ScholarshipGraduate Degree Fellowship for TaiwanStudent Affiliate ProgramAffiliate Scholar ProgramGender EqualityResearchResearch Program Overview Research Program Overview The East-West Center Research Program engages the research and policy communities in the US and the Asia Pacific on issues of common concern. The goal is to provide more complete knowledge and deeper understanding of the environments, societies, economies, and governments of the Asia Pacific region.Featured Research ProjectsPacific RISA Project Pacific RISA Project Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (Pacific RISA) program strives to enhance Pacific communities’ abilities to understand, plan for, and respond to changing climate conditions. Learn more about Pacific RISA.Research on the East-West WireResearch in the NewsResearch Noon Seminar Series Research Noon Seminar Series The East-West Center Research Program Noon Seminar Series seeks to disseminate research and policy finding on environmental, social, economic, political, and international relations issues in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The Noon Seminar Series invites scholars, advocates, and government officials from throughout the U.S., Asia and the Pacific to share their findings with planners, academics, policymakers, regional specialists, the media, and the general public through the series.Recent Publications by East-West Center AuthorsResearch StaffVisiting Fellows and Visiting ScholarsResearch Information ServicesInstitutional Review Board Policies and ProceduresPolicy on Financial Conflict of InterestGender EqualityProfessional DevelopmentOverview Overview The Professional Development Program conducts all of the East-West Center’s short to medium-term capacity-building, leadership training, professional exchanges, career development, and high-level dialogue activities. Humane AI InitiativeLeadership Program Leadership Program Leadership education at the East-West Center draws upon a deep well of experience. For over 50 years, the Center has been working with and producing leaders from diverse fields across the region.Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program The Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program brings tourism industry professionals from the Pacific Islands to Honolulu, Hawai‘i for intensive six-week programs that build significant new capacity and facilitate enduring professional bonds between industry leaders in the United States and the Pacific Islands.Seminars Journalism Programs Seminars & Journalism Programs East-West Seminars offers short-term dialogue, field study, travel and exchange opportunities for working professionals in politics, government, civil society, business and the media who are in positions to affect policy, shape public opinion and influence change.Asian Studies Development Program Asian Studies Development Program A joint program of the East-West Center and the University of Hawai’i, ASDP offers a variety of content-focused faculty and institutional development programs and activities centered around summer residential institutes, field seminars in Asia, workshops on the U.S. mainland, and an annual academic…Gender EqualityThe Partnership for Human RightsPacific IslandsEWC in DCAsia Matters for AmericaPrevious EventsProjects and PublicationsVisiting FellowsCongressional Staff Program on Asia Congressional Staff Program on Asia CSPA is a bipartisan educational certificate program, which aims to equip Congressional staffers with greater knowledge of U.S.-Indo-Pacific policy in order to better understand America’s role in and engagement with this dynamic region and the policy implications that will directly engage Congress.Young Professionals Program (Internship)StaffContact UsLive VideoAlumniEWCA Announcements and News EWCA Announcements and News The East-West Center Association (EWCA) is an international network of professionals who have a past affiliation with the East-West Center. There are no membership fees to participate in the EWCA. The Association is led by an international Executive Board representing the various professions, regions, and decades of its members. Collectively, they are contributing to global understanding, building an Asia Pacific community, and making a world of difference.EWCA Overview EWCA Overview The East-West Center Association (EWCA) is an international network of professionals who have a past affiliation with the East-West Center. There are no membership fees to participate in the EWCA. The Association is led by an international Executive Board representing the various professions, regions, and decades of its members. Collectively, they are contributing to global understanding, building an Asia Pacific community, and making a world of difference.EWCA Member Benefits EWCA Member Benefits With more than 65,000 alumni and associates around the world, the East-West Center has one of the largest networks of professionals working to advance international cooperation and understanding between the East and West. As part of that network, you can receive advice and support from associates throughout the region. 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Join our EWCA Online Networks today!Online CommunityParticipant ProfilesEWCA Blog and Alumni e-NewsletterEWCA and EWC Honors and AwardsSupport the EWCAUpdate Your Contact InformationContact UsGender EqualityArts ProgramEventsAnalysisAnalysis OverviewEWC Specialists on the AP regionPublicationsTalks and PanelsAsia Matters for AmericaTrump Administration TrackerNorth Korea in the World Integrated Climate Knowledge for Hawai‘i and the Pacific Islands (PacificRISA)Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA)Featured Research EWC Insights on ThinkTechNewsNews Center OverviewEast-West WireEWC in the NewsNews ReleasesWeb ArticlesAsia Pacific Center for JournalistsAnnual ReportVideoThe Polynesian Voyaging Society and the East-West Center: An Early and Enduring Relationship EWC Insights on ThinkTechApplyNorth Pacific Arctic Conference (NPAC) FellowshipEWC Seminars LiveCSC-EWC Visiting Scholars ProgramU.S. Presidential Election Reporting SeminarALL PROGRAMSEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIESSupport EWCGive to the East-West CenterSupport EWC StudentsEast-West Center FoundationGiving OpportunitiesEstate and Gift PlanningHonor Roll of DonorsDonor Recognition SocietiesEvents and ProgramsWays to GiveContact Fighting Disinformation on the Front Lines Experts from Facebook, the News Literacy Project, the International Fact-Checking Network and more weigh in on combatting false Info in the trenches. Click for Seminars Live webinar video. The New in the New Normal for the Post-COVID Pacific Islands For the Pacific community, their post-COVID options will be determined more by the choices made elsewhere than by their own preferences, writes Richard Herr in our latest Asia Pacific Bulletin. Experts from Facebook, the News Literacy Project, the International Fact-Checking Network and more weigh in on combatting false Info in the trenches. Click for Seminars Live webinar video. ...more... For the Pacific community, their post-COVID options will be determined more by the choices made elsewhere than by their own preferences, writes Richard Herr in our latest Asia Pacific Bulletin. ...more... Jefferson Fellowships alumna Annalisa Burgos talks to EWC Senior Fellow Denny Roy on KITV about China s Hong Kong clampdown and the US response. Click for video. ...more... The East-West Center is following the State of Hawai'i emergency order currently in effect. Public access to our facilities is supended, and all EWC in-person events have been cancelled or postponed until further notice. EWC housing remains open to current residents. More information and updates here. In a special message on racial injustice and the current protests, EWC President Richard R. Vuylsteke writes that "recent events in the United States have galvanized people around the world to call for true racial justice. Now we must act." ...more... Global Outcry After EWC Media Alumna Maria Ressa is Convicted of Digital Libel’ in the Philippines Press freedom advocates worldwide have expressed dismay at the conviction of Ressa and another journalist from her Rappler news site on what many have called trumped-up charges. Ressa, who has chronicled President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, called the case “a cautionary tale … if you don’t exercise your rights, you will lose them.” …more... Links between Urban Expansion and Viral Disease Offer Lessons for COVID-19 A study by EWC researchers on bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam helps shed light on links between urbanization and outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, especially in the transitional 'peri-urban' areas at the outskirts of cities. Photo: A duck market in Vietnam. ...more... 60 Years / 60 FactsThe EWC alumni association was established in 1977 and held its first international alumni gathering that summer in Honolulu. Since then, international alumni conferences have been held every few years throughout the region. The association’s EWC 60th anniversary alumni conference was originally scheduled for the end of this month in Honolulu but has been postponed until next summer due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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