The College of Social Sciences, in partnership with Fulbright Canada, has joined the prestigious Killam Fellowships Program. The program offers undergraduate students from universities in Canada and the U.S. the opportunity to spend a semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the other country. UH Mānoa is only the 14th university in the nation and the first in Hawaiʻi to join this program.
“We are thrilled to explore new academic opportunities with the College of Social Sciences,” said Michael K. Hawes, executive director of Fulbright Canada. “The college not only provides Hawaiʻi students with dynamic multicultural experiences, it also welcomes others to the state and offers them insight into the vibrant intellectual and cultural environment of the islands.”
The Killam Fellowships Program is designed to foster mutual understanding between Canada and the United States. The fellowship is a unique undergraduate experience that offers Mānoa students, as well as Canadian students, the opportunity to gather together and discuss issues of strategic, global importance. Fellows selected for the program will receive $5,000 per semester to study abroad at one of 18 partner universities in Canada. They will also receive two all-expense paid 3-day trips: orientation in Ottawa, Canada in the fall; and a spring seminar held in Washington, D.C. Fellows will also have the option to apply for an additional grant of up to $800 for educational and cultural travel in their host country.
The UH Mānoa Killam Fellowship is open to full-time undergraduate students in good standing who are U.S. citizens. The application period begins September 2017 for the 2018-2019 academic year.
