More than 40 experts and stakeholders on arctic science and policy are gathered at EWC this week for the 2019 North Pacific Arctic Conference on "Global-Arctic Interactions."
EWCW, with support from the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines, is leading the first U.S. delegation to the Asian Development Bank's Asian Youth Forum.
This fall's cohort of 89 new student participants from 25 countries and more than 40 fields of study arrived this week for their slate of EWC orientation activities before the start of the semester.
Close to 2,000 people enjoyed two weeks of workshops and performance at this year's edition of the popular biennial festival, which featured dances of Malaysia, First Nations (Canada), Hawai'i and Japan. The dance festival is co-hosted by the EWC Arts Program and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Outreach College.
EWC and NOAA recently co-hosted a workshop focusing on drought recovery issues in Hawai'i. Read a fact sheet examining the economic costs of an unprecedented recent period of extended drought to agriculture and other industres in the Islands. ...more...
More than a dozen Pacific Island journalists and NGO leaders gathered July 25-26 for a workshop co-hosted by EWC and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy on the roles civil society and media can play in advocating for good governance and transparency practices in the region. ...more...
Distinguished speakers on the keynote panel of this year's #galswithLEI women's leadership forum on July 17 discussed systemic, societal, and individual barriers to women's success in science and tech fields, and ways they overcame them. Watch video of the panel.
Congratulations to East-West Center alumnus David Stilwell, who was recently confirmed as the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Stilwell, a retired Air Force Brigadier General, received his master’s degree in Asian studies as an EWC grantee in the 1980s and later was an Adjunct Senior Fellow. ...more...
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