A salute to CSS student marshals
CSS undergraduates Kylie Charice Alarcon and Daniel LeRoy Kealohiokalani Seikichi Arakawa have been selected as UH Mānoa student marshals. They will lead their fellow cap-and-gowners during Spring 2024 Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 11, at the Stan Sheriff Center. Alarcon is a Psychology major who has the distinction of winning the Make Manoa Yours video contest in 2020. Arakawa is a Political Science and Sociology double major who is the winner of a Truman Scholar award in 2024. Being named a student marshal is a high honor based on academic achievements and contributions to student life.
Double recognition for grad student
Psychology graduate student Maximillian Soares Miehlstein has won the Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. He will be recognized at the 2024 Mānoa Awards Ceremony on May 8 at Kennedy Theatre. Miehlstein has also been selected as a graduate student marshal representing CSS at the University’s Spring 2024 Commencement on May 11 at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Dissertation excellence honored
Sociology’s Morsaline Mojid has won the International Studies Association’s 2024 Dissertation Award for her project investigating life for Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. Mojid’s research examines how the refugee camp serves as a model of sorts for dramatic shifts in the national and international governance of asylum seekers.
Introducing Miss Aloha Hula
Kaʻōnohikaumakaakeawe Kananiokeakua Holokai Lopes, a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Communications, earned the Miss Aloha Hula title and Hawaiian language award at the 61st annual Merrie Monarch Festival on April 4.
Summer internship awarded
Tori DeJournett, a graduating senior in Journalism, has won a paid Dow Jones News Fund internship this summer, and will also attend digital-media training at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Tempe. More than 1,000 students applied for the program this year.
