More than 40 experts and stakeholders on arctic science and policy gathered at EWC recently for the 2019 North Pacific Arctic Conference on "Global-Arctic Interactions."
EWCW, in collaboration the Center for Rule-making Strategies at Tama University, is launching the second year of the U.S.-Japan-Southeast Asia Partnership in a Dynamic Asia fellowship.
This fall's cohort of 89 new student participants from 25 countries and more than 40 fields of study arrived in mid-August for a slate of EWC orientation activities before the start of the semester.
This fall’s cohort of 21 young Southeast Asian environmentalists interacted with EWC staff and community members at a recent showcase for the Center's Institutes for Natural Resource Managers leadership program. The group's month-long US study tour marks the 10th year that EWC has been running the State Department-supported training programs.
Journalism graduate students from colleges in India and Pakistan met recently in Nepal for a two-day dialogue about cross-border media collaboration. Moderated by Nepali Times Editor Kunda Dixit, the dialogue was part of a variety of media programs EWC has been leading for Pakistani and Indian journalists. Read some of the student journalists' stories here. ...more...
This year's cohort of the immersive Asia Pacific Leadership Program started their five-month course in Chennai, India, recently with activities including visits to the US Consulate and a local royal family, a field trip to a facility run by an APLP alumna that is working to alleviate rural poverty, and a special two-day symposium. ...more..
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...
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.
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