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Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace

Social Sciences 717
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7427
MIP Fax: (808) 956-5708
PCR Fax: (808) 956-9121
E-mail: uhip@hawaii.edu
Web: www2.soc.hawaii.edu/peace

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 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 Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, 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. In addition, junior faculty development is supported through the Center of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) and Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (SNRP) through funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Social Science Research Institute

Social Sciences Building 704
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8930
Fax: (808) 956-2884

The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) facilitates and supports interdisciplinary, applied research that addresses critical, social, environmental, and economic problems primarily in Hawai'i and the Asia Pacific region. This is done through collaboration with faculty and students throughout the University of Hawai'i and with other educational and research institutions, regional and international organizations, the private sector, and federal, state, and county agencies. It is supported largely by contracts and grants from public agencies and private organizations. 

SSRI serves as the sponsored research division of the College of Social Sciences. SSRI provides practical experience to students at the University of Hawai'i through involvement in research, planning, and training projects. SSRI's staff assists county, state, and federal agencies and local community groups in Hawai'i with training and technical assistance. SSRI is also working with instructional units to integrate SSRI's research efforts into courses offered at the University of Hawai'i.

The institute is currently working in five problem areas: crime, drug abuse, youth problems, and poverty; resources, sustainable development, and futures research; telecommunication and information policy; culture, language and social problems; and health services and health policy. SSRI also cooperatively manages the UH Economic Research Organization (UHERO) with the Department of Economics and the Globalization Research Center.

University of Hawai'i Press

2840 Kolowalu Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8257
Fax: (808) 988-6052

University of Hawai'i Press publishes and distributes books and journals of high merit that reflect the regional or special interests and responsibilities of the University and other scholarly research organizations. All titles carry the imprint "University of Hawai'i Press." UH Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses, the Association of American Publishers, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Hawai'i Book Publishers Association, and the International Association of Scholarly Publishers. UH Press publishes books of regional interest, scholarly monographs, textbooks, and scholarly journals. (UH Press also operates a sales program—East-West Export Books—in Asia and the Pacific on behalf of American scholarly publishers.) Editorial control (final approval of manuscripts) is vested in a board made up of University of Hawai'i faculty members appointed by the senior vice president for academic affairs. Faculty members are encouraged to submit book-length manuscripts to the executive editor. Journal papers should be submitted to the editor-in-chief of the appropriate journal.

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