Office of International Affairs
Physical Science Building 102-106
2565 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-6940
Fax: (808) 956-5030
E-mail: oia@hawaii.edu
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) supports international education endeavors on behalf of students, scholars and faculty throughout the ten campuses of the University of Hawai'i. OIA oversees the University's more than 100 international agreements and exchanges with partner institutions, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. Additionally, OIA assists departments in inviting international scholars, researchers and faculty; facilitates system-wide immigration processing; conducts monthly scholar orientation; and supports departments' international efforts through the dissemination of information. Finally, OIA serves as a center for the exchange of information and the coordination of system-wide international student recruitment.
Laboratory Animal Service
Snyder 501A
2538 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8770
Fax: (808) 956-4448
The Laboratory Animal Service (LAS) is the University of Hawai'i support unit responsible for the care of vertebrate animals used in training and research. The University and the federal governments charge LAS to ensure appropriate and humane housing, care, and use of animals.
LAS provides instruction to investigators, technicians, and students in appropriate research techniques as they relate to animals. Assistance is provided to investigators in techniques for animal handling. Polyclonal antibody production is also provided as a service to any group needing antibodies.
The use of vertebrate animals for research and training is overseen at the University by the Animal Care and Use Committee which is composed of veterinarians, researchers, and local community representatives. The committee reviews proposals for research and training, inspects facilities, and considers issues of humane animal use.
Harold L. Lyon Arboretum
3860 Manoa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 988-3177
Fax: (808) 988-4231
The Harold L. Lyon Arboretum facilitates and conducts research, instruction, and public service in tropical biology and horticulture. Located on a 194-acre site in upper Manoa valley are greenhouses, laboratories, classrooms, and an herbarium. The arboretum also houses living plant collections, comprising about 15,000 accessions that encompass more than 6,000 species, varieties, and cultivars. It is the only university arboretum in the U.S. located in a tropical rainforest, and it has one of the largest collections of palms of any botanical garden in the world. Other major collections include tropical trees, heliconias, gingers, aroids, and tis. Emphasis is placed on native Hawaiian plants, including research on propagation and restoration of endangered species, on restoration of Hawaiian ecosystems, and on ethnobotany of the Hawaiian Islands. The arboretum sponsors and publishes the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum Lectures.
Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace
Social Sciences 717
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7427
Fax: (808) 956-5708
E-mail: uhip@hawaii.edu
Web: www2.hawaii.edu/uhip/
The Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace is an academic community designed to develop and share knowledge about the conditions of peace and the use of nonviolent means for resolving conflicts. The institute is committed to improving education in peace studies; undertaking peace research and peace teaching; participating with community groups active in peace and conflict resolution; and publishing scholarly and creative works on peace in all media. The institute's programs include the Program on Conflict Resolution, engaged in the identification, prevention, and resolution of conflicts; the International Center for Democracy, engaged in education for democracy; the Program on Nonviolence, engaged in the research and practice of nonviolence; the UH Mediation Service, engaged in dispute resolution within the University community; and the Institute for Peace Resource Center, which contains a collection of peace and conflict resolution books, journals, and videos. The institute gives special attention to issues of peace in the Asia Pacific region. For further information on its educational programs, see the "Colleges of Arts and Sciences" section within this Catalog.
Pacific Biomedical Research Center
Pacific Biomedical Research Center 215
1993 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7401
Fax: (808) 956-4768
The Pacific Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) conducts interdisciplinary research in cellular, developmental and molecular biology; Hawaiian evolutionary biology and conservation; neuro-behavioral biology; retrovirology; biotechnology; molecular endocrinology; and pathobiology of the extracellular matrix. It maintains core facilities in molecular biology and electron microscopy; fosters undergraduate research for minority students (Minority Access to Research Careers, Minority Biomedical Research Support and National Science Foundation-Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology); and maintains the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, the B‚k‚sy Laboratory of Neurobiology, the Behavioral Biology Laboratory, the Retrovirology Laboratory, and the Hawaiian Evolutionary Biology Laboratory. It also serves as the locus for the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program, which conducts basic, epidemiologic and clinical research on HIV, HTLV-1, and other emerging pathogens and research on native Hawaiian health problems. The institute also supports, in collaboration with the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and the Kapi'olani Health Research Institute, a Clinical Research Center located at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children. |