UHM HONORS STUDENTS COMPETE WITH THE BEST

From Spring 1998 to Fall 2003, students graduating from the Honors Program have gone on to post baccalaureate work at Harvard University Law School; Yale University Law School; Ohio State University Law School; Cornell University Graduate Program in Agriculture and Bio-Engineering; UCLA Graduate School in Biomedical Sciences; University of Colorado Graduate School in Health Sciences; University of Southern California Film School; UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and UC Riverside Graduate Schools in English; Claremont Graduate School in English; Yale Graduate School in Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine; University of Wisconsin at Madison Graduate Program in Physics; UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Graduate School in Biology; Purdue Graduate School in Microbiology; Mt. Sinai Medical School; Harvard Medical School; and the MD/PhD Graduate Program at the University of Washington. Honors students are also attending post-baccalaureate programs in Australia: the University of New South Wales Graduate Program in Epidemiology and the University of Queensland Graduate Program in Human Nutrition.

That accomplishment is in addition to the many Honors students who have enrolled in postn baccalaureate programs at Manoa, including several in both the John A. Burns School of Medicine and the William S. Richardson School of Law as well as graduate programs in Clinical Psychology, Education, Educational Technology, English, History, Information/Computer Science, Microbiology, Oceanography, Public Administration, Social Work, Sociology, and Spanish.

One hundred forty-five students in all have graduated with Honors degrees in this time frame, including last fall's commencement crowd. Of those who have reported future plans, 75% are either in a graduate program or a professional school or have plans to apply. The remaining students are or will be working at diverse jobs--including the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, Hawaii's Department of Education, and AmeriCorps--and with such companies as the Singapore Tourist Board, Orincon Defense, the San Jose Mercury News, the Honolulu Advertiser, Newsday, Honolulu Magazine, the Honolulu Symphony, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, the Hawaii Cancer Center, Straub Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Verizon, and the Four Seasons Hotel. Three students are working as contract archaeologists. Another is working at an internet company she help to found.