HONORS PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MANOA
UHM HONORS STUDENTS COMPETE WITH THE BEST
From Spring 1998 to Summer 2004, students graduating from
the Honors Program have gone on to postbaccalaureate work
at institutions across the country, including
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; UC Santa Cruz Graduate Program
in Chemical Oceanography; 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;
San Diego State University Graduate Program in Geography;
New England Conservatory School, Music Composition; Lesley
University (Mass) Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences;
Yale Graduate School of Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine;
University of Wisconsin at Madison Graduate Program in Physics;
UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, Johns
Hopkins Graduate Program in Biology; Purdue Graduate Program
in Microbiology; University of North Carolina Graduate Program
in Toxicology; Mt. Sinai Medical School; Harvard Medical School;
and the MD/PhD Graduate Program at the University of Washington.
Two Honors students are also attending post-baccalaureate
programs in Australia: the University of New South Wales Graduate
Program in Epidemiology; the University of Queensland Graduate
Program in Human Nutrition.
That accomplishment is in addition to the many Honors students
who have enrolled in postbaccalaureate 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, Political Science, Public Administration, Social
Work, Sociology, and Spanish.
One hundred sixty-three students in all have graduated with
Honors degrees in this time frame, including last summer'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. Four students are working
as contract archaeologists, one in Egypt. Another works at
an internet company she help to found.
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