Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Hayley Cannizzo
Student Affiliate
MA in Second Language Studies
I would like to thank the EWCA Hawaii Chapter for supporting me with a summer travel grant. Thanks to your generosity, I was able to participate in the Humanity in Action Fellowship Program.
Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Dolly Autufuga
Graduate Degree Fellow
MS in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
Hiking a steep trail six days a week, for three straight weeks to get to the study area and spending 8-9 hours on Mount Lata daily depending on the weather, were the most challenging parts of my field work in Ta’u, American Sāmoa. However, I was able to accomplish so much from this field work physically and mentally, but most importantly, the amount of data collected.
Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Aidai Almaz kyzy
Graduate Degree Fellow
MPA in Public Administration
EWCA Summer Travel Grant supported me in successfully completing my summer practicum that was required under the Public Administration Master’s Program. My practicum that was scheduled between May 15, 2019 and August 15, 2019 at the Department of Pre-school, School, and Non-formal Activities under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic gave me an opportunity to deeply understand the internal activities of the Ministry, meet great people truly dedicated to their work, who slowly but firmly bring innovative changes to the education system in the country.
Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Yu-Chieh Wu
Graduate Degree Fellow
EdD in Educational Foundations
I attended The EdMedia+ Innovative Learning 2019 conference held by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education in Amsterdam, Netherlands from June 24 to June 28. This is the first time I presented the paper “Motivating English as a Foreign Language Teachers to Cultivate Intercultural Competence through an Online Course: An Instructional Design Project” abroad.
Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Ting-Ting Hsu
Graduate Degree Fellow
MS in Communication Sciences & Disorders
During this summer, I was fortunate to do my last internship at Wailuku Maui Kaiser Permanente Medical Office as a student speech-language pathologist. I had a chance to work with people with voice disorders, swallowing difficulties, or language disorders. My supervisor, Susan, shared her knowledge and experience with me. She guided me with patience, passed onto me the skills of doing treatment and consultation, and provided me with insights of being a speech-language pathologist. This internship opportunity surely broadened my clinical experience and well prepared me for the real world. Thank you, EWCA, for your generous financial support!!!!
Note: The picture was taken when I was doing therapy with one of my patients. Due to HIPPA regulations, He has been cut from the photo. We were using Pokers to work on his cognition skills (we’re not just playing cards).
Thanks again for your kind support!
Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Mattias van Ommen
Student Affiliate
PhD in Anthropology
With the support of EWCA, I was able to travel to Kyoto between August 5th and 12th of 2019. I attended two back-to-back conferences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. I co-organized a panel on Japanese video games and how these have been received in Western locations for the first conference — by Digital Games Research Association, the largest global conference on video game studies. Marc Steinberg, leading scholar of Japanese popular culture and animation was one of the other presenters. I was able to meet him for the first time, and also met with many other scholars whose work I have read during my earlier stages of graduate school.
Summer Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
Leeseul Park
Student Affiliate
MA in Second Language Studies
Attending the international conference, Foreign Language Education and Technology VII in Japan, provided me a great opportunity to explore the relationship between foreign language learning and technology from different perspectives. I was able to receive a deeper understanding on the current trends and pedagogical issues not only from my own field, education, but also various other fields – psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence.
Summer Travel Grant 2017 Recipient
Ludwig Aba
USSP
I started my internship at the Bank of Papua New Guinea (PNG) from June 19 – July 28 2017. The commitment hours were five hours per working day for thirty days, that amounted to 150 hours. During this time, I was engaged with the Financial Markets Department of the Bank of PNG, specifically at the Office of Open Market Operations that implements Monetary Policy of the Bank. This office conducts weekly auction of PNG National Government’s Treasury bills and Inscribed stocks. The Bank also auction its own central bank bill to influence liquidity and interest rates. Aside from the formal auction of Treasury bills and Inscribed stocks, the Bank of PNG sells bonds and bills at the Tap, which is over the counter transactions.
Summer Travel Grant 2017 Recipient
Lilly Fatdal
USSP-EWC Fellow
The EWCA travel grant enabled me to complete a four week internship program and one week of field work with the collaboration of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Vanuatu.
During the internship placement, I was able to participate in national conferences and farm visits. During these visits I taught and assisted extension officers on how to identify Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) symptoms on kava. At the same time I trained them on how to use Immunostrip assay to test for Cucumber mosaic virus, which is a severe cause of dieback disease of kava, resulting in total crop loss.
Summer Travel Grant 2017 Recipient
Rachel Reeves
Graduate Degree Fellow
During the summer of 2017, I traveled to Rarotonga, the main island of the Cook Islands, to conduct research for a creative thesis I am writing, in order to obtain a Master’s of Arts in English (Creative Writing). Part of my thesis will focus on domestic abuse in the Cook Islands and the specific challenges survivors there face. During my time in the Cook Islands I conducted in-depth, days-long interviews with fourteen survivors and interviewed a range of service providers, from counselors to police officers. I also spoke to a reformed abuser. In addition, I co-organized an event to raise money for Punanga Tauturu Inc, the only organization in the Cook Islands that provides support services for survivors of domestic abuse.
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