The East-West Center Association Blog

Pre-authorized Debit Program for Your Donation

Would you like to see more students come to the East-West Center to take advantage of opportunities such as those you had?

Here is a simple, painless way to make that happen.  You can now have your donations to the East-West Center Foundation automatically debited or deducted from your checking or savings accounts each quarter.  This option is only available for U.S. bank accounts.

If you decide to have $90 taken from your bank account (savings or checking) every quarter (that’s $1 a day), you will have given $360 in a year, and in less than three years, you will have given $1,000!  Your name will go on a donor plaque at Burns Hall as a $1,000 Donor.  If you must discontinue the program before you reach $1,000, you can just notify the EWC Foundation office.

Sign up by going to the EWC Foundation website www.eastwestcenter.org/support-the-ewc, contacting the EWC Foundation at 808-944-7193 or by email Foundation@EastWestCenter.org

Sounds easy?  It is!  Some of us have already started on the Quarterly Debit Program.  Please join us today.  Thank you for your participation and generosity.

Larry Smith, co-chair

Tsue Ostermann, co-chair

EWCA Endowment Fund for Student Scholarships Committee

(EWC Alumni and community professionals share their expertise with new EWC student grantees)

The East-West Center Association (EWCA) hosted an informal luncheon for about 130 new East-West Center (EWC) students during the EWC Fall semester orientation.  The luncheon was held on August 10, 2011 at the EWC Imin Center (aka Jefferson Hall).

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It’s that time of the year again! The new students will be arriving to the East-West Center dorms in August and the Associates Office will be collecting donations of kitchen goods to sell to new participants at a greatly reduced cost. This year’s Annual Bazaar/Kitchen Item Sale for incoming students will be held on August 11.

If you would like to donate gently used kitchen goods, please contact Mamta Panwar at (808) 944-7506 or alumni@eastwestcenter.org before dropping off the items. Donations will be accepted between 8:00 am and 4:30 pm at the Associates Office, 1601 East-West Road, Room 1060, during the week of July 27 – July 31.

By Majah-Leah V. Ravago

(L to R) Manabu Fujimura, Susan Stone, Shigeyuki Abe, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Arsenio Balisacan, James Roumasset, Agnes Rola, Kimberly Burnett, Majah-Leah Ravago, Yasuyuki Sawada

“It’s a small world after all!” It may sound cliché, but is true as exemplified by my recent experience of meeting several EWC alumni in the Western Economics Association International 8th Biennial Pacific Rim Conference in Kyoto, Japan on March 24-27, 2009. We organized sessions in this conference and I realized that several participants we invited have one thing in common — EWC. Continue Reading »

HONOLULU (April 10) – The East-West Center Participants Association is hosting its 2009 cultural celebration, East-West Fest, on Sat. April 18 from 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm at the Center’s Hawaii Imin International Conference Center (Jefferson Hall) on the East-West Center campus.

This year’s fest is themed Many Cultures, One World and will include cultural booths representing 13 countries. Performances for the event include award-winning Hawaiian combo Manoa Voices; the winners of the 2008 Tokelau Easter Festival, Te Lumanaki o Tokelau I Amelika; dances of Bhutan, Bali, Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia; music of Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh; and much more. Continue Reading »

The Hawaii Chapter will be hosting their Annual Meeting and Fundraiser Dinner on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at Luana Hills Country Club. The funds raised from this event will go to EWC student travel scholarships that enable students to attend professional conferences.

The program will feature an excellent buffet dinner, art bazaar, an auction of Southeast Asian art, and cultural performances by EWC students. Continue Reading »

What does it mean to be a leader and model for sustainability?

This and many other questions are the starting point for a discussion panel that took place at the EWC/EWCA 2008 International Conference in Bali today. Participants Meutia Chaerani, R. Don Peel, Bryan Bushley, and Wendy Miles presented “Leading Sustainably in the Asia Pacific: An Interactive Discussion on Environmental Sustainability in the East-West Center Community.” These Participants are part of an active group concerned with environmental sustainability, and their efforts are focused first where they live: the East-West Center and the island of Oahu.

In recent years, EWC participants have been exploring new ways to promote sustainability in the East-West Center living and working community. Continue Reading »

By Carl Polley
Graduate Degree Fellow, Linguistics (PhD)

I would like to thank the East-West Center Alumni for their generous Summer Travel Award, which I used to travel and present at two conferences in August. This was my first time attending international linguistics conferences outside of the United States.

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Mayco Santaella, travel grant recipient, in Central Sulawesi.

Each year the East-West Center Association (EWCA) awards summer travel grants to deserving students to offset the costs of traveling to conferences or field work destinations. These travel grants are funded by generous East-West Center alumni from all over the world. In 2008, 10 EWCA travel grants were awarded – five funded by the EWCA Hawaii Chapter – to travel between May and August.

Currently, the East-West Center’s Alumni blog, EWCA Discussion Board, is featuring its “Travel Grant Series” – a series of nine short narratives of the East-West Center Travel Grant recipients’ experience. To read the series click here.

Remember when you first came to the East-West Center? For two weeks in August, it was orientation time here for our newly arrived students. On Tuesday, August 19th, a special outdoor session was arranged to introduce local-style cultural elements. Please take a look at the photos from this session that were featured on the next day’s of the Star Bulletin.