Native Hawaiian Scholarship ʻAha
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is helping Native Hawaiian students pay for college through
two scholarship programs. For information about OHA's scholarship program, resources and
Full Program I: Minority Pacific Islander Cancer Research, Student & Faculty
Development (Education and Training)
Project Leaders: John Peterson, Ph.D. (UOG), Carl-Wilhelm Vogel, M.D., Ph.D. (UHCC) and Carol Boushey, Ph.D. (UHCC)
Specific Aims:
1. Train Pacific Islander students in cancer research at the master’s level at UoG;
2. Train Pacific Islander students in cancer research at the Ph.D. level at UHCC;
3. Stimulate cancer research efforts at UoG; and
4. Create a new public and community cancer health disparities track in the Micronesian Studies Program (MSP) at UOG.
Selection of 2012 Cancer Research Center Scholars
Pictured seated from left are Namazi, Caasi, UOG Senior Vice President and Cancer grant co-principal
investigator Helen Whippy; Cruz; Cruz’s son _____; and Montano. Pictured from left standing are UOG
faculty member John Moss, Silbanuz, Halbert, Todd Ames, Micronesian Studies advisor; Howard and Gil
Suguitan, program manager, Cancer Research Center. Not pictured: Angelica Okada, who is studying the
social, emotional and financial effects of cancer on the members of the Pacific Association of Radiation
Survivors.
