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Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace
Saunders Hall 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 UH 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 Research Laboratory, and the Hawaiian Evolutionary Biology Laboratory. The institute also supports, in collaboration with the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), a series of programs supporting junior faculty research development. These programs include the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) award, the Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (SNRP), and its separate AIDS-SNRP offshoot, specializing in neurological effects of HIV infection, and a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award. Finally, PBRC and JABSOM are cooperating in administration of a Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) award aimed to increase NIH funding for biomedical research carried out in Hawai‘i.
Social Science Research Institute
Saunders Hall 704
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8930
Fax: (808) 956-2884
The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) serves as the sponsored research division of the College of Social Sciences. 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 UH 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 provides practical experience to students at the UH 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 UH.
The institute currently focuses on these 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 University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO) with the Department of Economics and the Globalization Research Center, and the Office for Evaluation and Needs Assessment Services.
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 UH 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 UH faculty members appointed by the senior vice chancellor 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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