History major Jacob Hoone has been awarded an A.J. Palumbo Student Reseach Grant which will help with a research trip to Hawaii. He has written the following: "I was recently awarded the A.J. Palumbo Student Research Grant for the amount of $2,430. I am currently a junior history major planning to pursue my senior thesis in Hawaii looking at the effects that race has had on the remembrance of Pearl Harbor. It is my belief that race is an important, yet overlooked, topic when looking at the attack on Pearl Harbor. I plan to find the effect that race played in the war alone, not with only remembrance, but also with actual views from Japanese-American veterans towards fighting for the U.S. against Japan. There are many archives, all of which are located at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which deal with the topics I wish to pursue. One of the main archive sections I plan on viewing for much of my time is the section entitled American Japanese Ancestry Veterans. Here there are many accounts such as documents written by veterans, diaries, letters, many sources that show their feelings toward the war efforts and their participation in such activities. I also plan to travel, while in Hawaii, to the site of the memorial and plan to find some reaction to the memorializing of the attack from first-hand accounts from Japanese-Americans. I have been interested in the attack of Pearl Harbor for many years now and have written many research papers over the past four years, all on different aspects of the attack but what makes me so interested in doing this topic for my senior thesis is that I want to do a project on a subject that has been avoided in the past and not really looked at, and I think race is a good topic for that. I hope to be able to share my findings next year.”