Regents Outstanding Student Awards in Arts and Humanities 2017

Each year, the Chancellor recognizes the leadership and service of UH Mānoa kinesthesia, staff, and students committed to enhancing the University'due south mission of excellence.

The 2017 Awards anniversary was held on Monday, May 1 at iv:00 p.m. in the Orvis Auditorium.

Y'all can encounter photos of the anniversary on our Flickr page.

• Lath of Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching
• Board of Regents' Medal for Excellence in Enquiry
• Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Educational activity
• Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for a Graduate Assistant
• Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Service to the Community
• Chancellor's Citation for Meritorious Teaching
• Chancellor'south Honor for Outstanding Service
• Faculty Diversity Enhancement Award
• Peter V. Garrod Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award
• Cooperative Education Pupil of the Year
• Outstanding Academic Advisor / Advising Unit Award
• Student Excellence in Inquiry (Master's and Doctoral)
• Pupil Employee of the Year Accolade

UH Mānoa kinesthesia and staff take besides received other awards for their achievements. Encounter the Helpful Links (top right of this page) for previous recipients.

Board of Regents' Medal for Excellence in Pedagogy

The Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded by the Lath of Regents equally tribute to kinesthesia members who exhibit an boggling level of subject mastery and scholarship, instruction effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students.

Albert S. Kim

Albert Due south. Kim is an acquaintance professor in the ceremonious and environmental engineering section in the Higher of Engineering science. He is described by a student as a "once-in-a-generation mentor, professor and instructor, inspiring the next generation of engineers and leaders" and as "instrumental in unlocking my potential and finding my calling." He makes the complex field of technology accessible and fun, creating a sense of community and belonging in the classroom. He attends, with greater focus, to students who are initially lagging, with a goal to produce academically mature students who are able to face and tackle circuitous practical issues with technological honesty, sincerity and creativity. Kim has adult his ain text for one course, and his blog and ample external resources are tremendous additions to this program.

Kenneth L. Lawson

Kenneth Lawson is an associate faculty specialist and co-director of the Hawaiʻi Innocence Projection (HIP) at the William S. Richardson School of Police force. He brings what his colleagues describe as "extraordinary gifts" and "forcefulness of grapheme" directly into the classroom, and in so doing is "truly inspirational to his colleagues as well as his students." Fifty-fifty more impressive is the passionate engagement of his students with praise that resonates for all his diverse, substantial teaching load of courses. He is as well credited for his innovations that have transformed HIP to a place where law students larn to carry intake, investigate claims of innocence, evaluate cases and abet on behalf of inmates with stiff factual bear witness of bodily innocence. He encourages students to regard HIP as a education law firm with exceptionally high standards.

Winona Thousand. Lee

Winona Grand. Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. She envisions herself every bit hale ipukukui or lighthouse, in directly lineage from her keen-grandad seventy years ago, the lighthouse keeper at Kalaupapa. Pedagogy in the ʻImi Hoʻōla program with students from disadvantaged backgrounds, she applies adaptive learning practices, tailoring didactics and curricula to encounter students' individual learning styles based on each student's foundational knowledge, strengths, individual learning styles, motivations and challenges. This innovative and progressive medical professional person curriculum has been a part of the ʻImi Hoʻōla Program curriculum and evaluation since 2007. Lee'south mission is to teach complex biological concepts and processes to students whose weakest areas prior to ʻImi Hoʻōla were the sciences. Every year Lee provides her students an exceptional service-learning project by traveling to Kalaupapa, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that impacts deeply on their future professional person piece of work.

Michelle A. Manes

Associate Professor Michelle Manes in the Department of Mathematics believes the teaching of mathematics can develop persistence and determination with the problem-solving process through collaboration, partial progress, incremental success and revisions. She feels strongly that her students proceeds confidence in their mathematical abilities through animated, engaging issues rather than skill drills. Manes inspires and assists graduate students who describe her as having an immense touch on their careers as they journeying on their paths toward becoming educators. She extends her teaching across the campus through collaboration with another Mānoa colleague on projects and grants to support K-12 mathematics education, including the development of an electronic mathematics textbook. These efforts take created a trajectory for loftier school graduates who are better prepared for their bookish journeys at UH Mānoa.

Tara B. O'Neill

Associate Professor Tara O'Neill has a teaching philosophy rooted in equity and social justice that has go fortified during her 8 years at UH Mānoa. She has worked with pre-service teachers and their Department of Instruction teaching mentors, in educational partnerships with the Polynesian Voyaging Order and ʻOhana Waʻa, and has represented the Higher of Education as a crew fellow member on Leg 9 of Hōkūleʻa'southward Worldwide Voyage. These impacts on her commitment to education in teaching Stalk-based courses have resulted in her evolution of a new educational construct chosen STEMS2, the first iv letters indicating scientific discipline, technology, engineering and mathematics to which she has added social studies and sense of place. She credits the Hawaiian reciprocal process of aʻo, that is, to teach and to learn, equally guiding her and her students through "cocky-reflection and supporting productive and critical science argumentation, while working together through moments of cognitive dissonance and conflict that sally from democratic exchange." Her approaches inspire students and colleagues akin.

Scott C. Sinnett

Scott Sinnett is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology who is known for his rigor in teaching some of the more hard courses in cognitive science and retention. Described as existence easy to approach and supportive of pupil learning, he is known for delivering exemplary lectures, expanding his pedagogical methods to visual demonstrations that are mindful and diverse, and utilizing current social trends, sense of humour and intriguing research to encourage class participation, fifty-fifty in the largest of classes. He elevates free energy levels and fosters highly collaborative learning environments. He also provides an extensive network of support and guidance on how to develop form projects and activities, finer run a classroom, bargain with unexpected obstacles and develop a class of one'due south own from the footing upwards.

Board of Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research

The Regents' Medal for Excellence in Inquiry is awarded by the Board of Regents in recognition of scholarly contributions that expand the boundaries of cognition and enrich the lives of students and the customs.

Christoph J. Baranec

Christoph Baranec is an banana astronomer at the Academy of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy. He designs, builds and uses adaptive eyes systems—instruments that overcome the blurring effects of the Earth's temper. Baranec won an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2014 for leading the evolution of the world's first automatic adaptive optic organisation, Robo-AO. Observations from this organisation appear in 30 scientific publications, with many more in preparation. These include several of the largest number count adaptive eyes surveys ever performed: all of the several thousands of Kepler candidate exoplanet hosts and all known stars within 80 calorie-free years observable from the northern hemisphere. Baranec currently leads the effort to deploy an upgraded version of Robo-AO to the University of Hawaiʻi 2.ii-m telescope, which volition accomplish resolutions approaching that of the Hubble Infinite Telescope.

James Dean Brown

James Dean "JD" Chocolate-brown has made outstanding contributions to the field of applied linguistics in the areas of language testing, language curriculum blueprint, language research methods and teaching of continued voice communication. Since joining the Section of Second Language Studies, he has trained hundreds of graduate students and served on 44 doctoral committees. His 370 publications include 25 books, 23 monographs, 51 peer-reviewed articles, 74 book capacity and more, all of which take garnered most 12,000 citations. Equally a speaker, he has delivered 60 invited plenary/keynote speeches, 56 peer-reviewed briefing presentations and more than 300 other invited lectures and workshops. This Fulbright Senior Scholar has earned the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Award; the International Language Testing Clan Samuel Messick Accolade; and the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature Excellence in Scholarship and Research Honour.

Jeffrey R. Kuhn

Jeff Kuhn is an astronomer with the Constitute for Astronomy. He is a physicist who joined UH in 1998 to study the lord's day. He is internationally recognized for improving our understanding of the global backdrop of the sun, its mean construction, rotation and the physics of its variability. On Haleakalā, he built a telescope that measures the weak magnetism of the sun'southward outer atmosphere. This unusual musical instrument demonstrates how the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, at present under construction on Haleakalā, will revolutionize our understanding of the inconstant sun'southward effect on the Earth. He currently works on optical concepts that may someday enable big, next-generation instruments to detect signatures of life on nearby exoplanets. He is also a vocal advocate for university efforts to engage non-academic partners with academic researchers in order to create useful technologies.

Frances Davis Accolade for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

The Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for a faculty and a graduate assistant recognizes dedication and demonstrated excellence equally teachers of undergraduate students. It was established equally a memorial to the late Frances Davis, who taught mathematics at Leeward Community Higher and UH Mānoa for nineteen years.

Denise Nelson-Hurwitz

Denise Nelson-Hurwitz is an assistant professor with the Office of Public Health Studies. Her path to UH Mānoa was a circuitous yet purposeful journeying that as well led her back to her roots. Every bit a graduate research assistant mentored by Mānoa faculty, Nelson-Hurwitz discovered her love for educational activity. She is described every bit an excellent teacher with a deep knowledge and pity for students and their learning. She is credited with the development of the newly instituted undergraduate public health program in 2014 and the capstone serial in which students present quality projects on community-based service learning and research. She seeks innovative approaches that allow her students to experience their education through evidence-based student engagement and team-based experiential learning techniques. The influence and impact of her inspired educational activity extends beyond the Mānoa campus and into local and national communities, conferences and institutions, including interest from other universities seeking to replicate the models she created for introductory and capstone courses in public wellness studies.

Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Didactics for a Graduate Assistant

Nyle S. Kauweloa

Nyle "Sky" Kauweloa's approach to bookish and intellectual marvel is matched past his business concern and interest in the stories of students. A PhD student in the communication and data sciences programme, his involvement is in digital communications and gaming. He enjoys challenging students to call back about how technologies will shape the hereafter. Students who have taken his course at the Schoolhouse of Communications depict him every bit open, caring and inquisitive while beingness intellectually provocative and imaginative. Colleagues admire his ability to marry various topics in the field of information and communication technologies to everyday concerns related to privacy, security and digital surveillance. In the end, information technology'southward near crafting knowledge and teaching that becomes meaningful. As one student noted, "When Heaven related current events and articles, it gave the subject matter context. This was squeamish considering information technology showed that the concepts nosotros were learning are important and not just theory."

Marker A.J. Wilding

Mark "Maleko" Wilding is a PhD student in the Department of Second Linguistic communication Studies, where he has taught a variety of undergraduate courses over the last v years. His achievements equally a teacher stem from a real passion for linguistic communication learning, a genuine empathy for his students, and a vocation for helping others learn in a fun and ʻohana-like environment. His Department Chair shared, "We are not sure if he is fluent in as many as 12, but he certainly spends fourth dimension practicing and extending his command of more than languages than there are professors in the Department of 2nd Languages." Marker regularly corresponds with other polyglots and takes a new linguistic communication course every semester here at UH, which gives him a deeper insight into the many challenges faced past linguistic communication learners and teachers at different stages. With glowing class feedback every semester, many students consider him a role model teacher.

Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Service to the Customs

The Robert W. Clopton Award for Outstanding Service to the Community recognizes a UH Mānoa faculty fellow member for playing a socially pregnant role by applying intellectual leadership and academic expertise to the improvement of the community. The award was established as a memorial to longtime Mānoa College of Education Professor Robert Clopton and first awarded in 1977.

James H. Pietsch

Throughout his career, Professor James Pietsch of the William Due south. Richardson School of Constabulary has focused his efforts on assisting our land'due south elderly and disabled, disenfranchised, abused, and socially and economically needy residents. Known as "Mr. Elderberry Law" for inaugurating this specialized field of police force in Hawaiʻi, his stellar reputation in the medical, social piece of work and legal community places him at the nexus for legal and ideals consultation on the multiple and complex issues that ascend at the end of life. Committed to edifice programs and partnerships with a national and global reach, he helped institute a Dominion of Law Complex for the safety of all involved in trial under Iraqi police, worked on the commencement Legal Aid Dispensary for detainees, and authored an operational manual straight based on his experience in the Elder Law Dispensary. Graduates view him as a truly unique member of the university, epitomizing a dedicated university professor's life-long commitment to the community.

Mānoa Chancellor's Commendation for Meritorious Teaching

The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Chancellor's Commendation for Meritorious Teaching recognizes Mānoa faculty members who have made significant contributions to instruction and pupil learning.

Michael Cheang

Over the past 20 years, Acquaintance Professor Michael Cheang of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences has evolved his part as an educator from that of a teacher, to that of a facilitator and learning partner. His instruction is grounded in learning theories and aligned with research on best practices across the nation. As a result, student learning has become not simply more than meaningful, merely empowering. Cheang besides takes his pedagogy into the community. One of his most popular talks is titled, "What are we going to do almost mom?" Using sense of humor, he effectively helps audiences relate to the difficult issues of caring for an aging family fellow member. His colleagues recognize him as having achieved pregnant hallmarks of transformational learning in his students: disquisitional changes in student thinking, problem solving, written and oral communication with interpersonal skills, and enhancements in social and emotional IQ competencies. Wrote i, "He is a shining example of a renaissance professor making a departure in the lives of our students, conducting research and scholarship that matters, and contributing to improving the quality of life for our most vulnerable citizens."

Gretchenjan Gavero

Gretchenjan Gavero, an assistant professor at the John A. Burns Schoolhouse of Medicine, is managing director of medical student didactics in the Department of Psychiatry and chair of the JABSOM clerkship instruction commission. Her education philosophy is built on iv tenets: an attitude of gratitude for opportunities to learn and to give back; a forcefulness-based arroyo toward each and every learner; being attentive to the dynamic nature of learning and the generation gap betwixt teachers and learning, technology and media, and sociocultural issues, among others; and the inherently collaborative nature of learning. Gavero spearheaded a transformation of the residency training curriculum from primarily lecture-based to problem-based learning for advanced learners, implemented a successful interviewing skills seminar for commencement residents, designed sessions for medical students at different phases of development, and has led the exponential growth of psychiatry as a specialty above national averages. Her efforts have improved the feel of students, faculty, staff and residents, and led to her pick equally the recipient of the Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award.

Jennifer Griswold

Jennifer Griswold, an banana professor of atmospheric sciences in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, strives to engage students through innovative labs, challenging problem-solving projects, peer-to-peer interaction and real-world examples of the principles of the field. In a world filled with tweets and texts and multi-media bombardment, Griswold began incorporating multi-media into her introduction to meteorology courses to encourage small group problem-solving on exams, assignments and lecture summaries. She has adult 2 new courses in atmospheric sciences, i that merges weather and climate information with the cultures of the Pacific Islands and another that teaches satellite data acquisition and assay techniques. She is recognized past her students equally a remarkable professor and advisor whose influence draws students from disciplines outside of scientific discipline to study the atmospheric sciences. Her delivery to educational activity extends to those who are underrepresented in Stalk (Science, Technology, Engineering science and Mathematics) fields by founding Expanding Your Horizons, a community outreach programme that exposes young women in 6-8 grades to opportunities in Stem.

Daniel E. Harris-McCoy

Assistant Professor Daniel Harris-McCoy is described equally an innovative instructor who has inspired a renewed interest among students for studying the classics. Utilizing his own unique, lively teaching style, his students are immersed in the language and culture of the ancients. His goal is for students to develop an ability to run into contemporary society as the product of a long and frequently fractious social, intellectual and aesthetic history; and that they develop the habit of questioning personal beliefs through exposure to globe views very different from their own. Among the various devices in his pedagogical portfolio are the practise of calligraphy to raise manuscript writing and textual transmissions; production of comic volume versions of various mythic stories; and listening to Greek Beats and Toga Beats, a hip-hop based method for learning Greek and Latin created by Harris-McCoy and an undergraduate student to assist students grasp the intricacies of Greek and Latin grammar.

Scott T. Kikiloi

Scott (Kekuewa) Kikiloi, assistant professor at the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Cognition, adeptly draws from many schools of thought from ancient, sacred, contemporary and disciplinary canons to engage students in disquisitional educational activity and learning in Hawaiian Studies. He believes that a disquisitional instruction of identify is the impetus for a progressive teaching and mentoring approach that creates an accurate experience for students, one that shapes higher learning outcomes across noesis, values, attitudes and behaviors. To this end, he uses site visits, service learning, customs engagement, field training schools and internships with sponsor organizations to provide students with experience-based and contextualized learning environments. The book and diversity of classes he has taught over the by 4 years is a testament to his scholarly mastery that enables him to teach four foundational courses and most of the mālama ʻāina disciplinary courses at the BA and MA levels. He also continues to develop courses with hybrid potential such every bit Hawaiian archaeology field courses.

Vickery K. Lebbin

In her role as a teaching librarian at Hamilton Library, Vicky Lebbin's goal is for students to gain an understanding of what sources are, why they matter and how to use them ethically and assuredly. Her pedagogy is pupil-centered with an accent on agile learning, incorporating student perspectives into course content, using manus-on activities to provide experiential learning, and engaging in social media and educational applied science. She has built a highly successful program within the library to serve undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines, and thus plays a direct and critical role in educating and influencing hundreds of students every twelvemonth. Considering Lebbin's role requires her to effectively teach students in courses that span the curriculum, she tailors the themes of her teaching and real world examples to an immense variety of academic disciplines. Her Mānoa library colleagues speak glowingly of her reputation for building the finest undergraduate library instruction programme in the Land of Hawaiʻi, and she is recognized nationally as an innovative thinker and practitioner of library pedagogy.

Mānoa Chancellor's Honour for Outstanding Service

The Academy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service honors Mānoa staff members who demonstrate outstanding work performance, service and leadership. Criteria include a tape of competence and efficiency, exceptional contribution to the attainment of program objectives, creative solutions to difficult problems, integrity and dedication to the mission of the programme.

Tae Vocal Ku (Buildings and Grounds)

Tae Vocal Ku has been with UH Mānoa's landscaping department for 21 years. He is currently the tree trimmer for the entire Mānoa campus, including the Waʻahila area, the Institute for Astronomy, UH Press and the Magoon Research facility. He too responds to emergency situations in kinesthesia and educatee housing. Ku works hard to ensure campus safe, especially during severe weather condition where copse cruel into Mānoa Stream and posed a threat to UH Mānoa facilities. He besides manages the campus' unique collection of more than 5,000 copse and was instrumental in the department achieving the Tree Campus The states honour from the Arbor Day Foundation. Ku also played a significant role in UH Mānoa being named an accredited arboretum by the Morton Arboretum ArbNet. He continuously provides tree assessment reports to improve maintenance and to forestall catastrophic tree failure, and his efforts ensure that the campus provides a condom learning environment for faculty, students and staff.

Trent Hata (APT)

Trent Hata, a xxx-year employee, serves as banana to the administrator for the Hawaiʻi County Plant and Ecology Protection Sciences (PEPS) program nether the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human being Resources. His nominator says that "Trent consistently performed above and across the scope of his job description and has upheld the reputation of UH Mānoa as the premier research, teaching and extension institution in the Pacific." He oversees the operations of eight experiment stations, three office complexes and more than l vehicles and farm equipment. Hata has served six county administrators and provides invaluable stability and continuity to PEPS with his uncompromising integrity, strong management skills and attention to particular. Additionally, he supervises farm managers and building maintenance staff and oversees agricultural technicians, educatee administration, volunteers and individual contractors. Hata was instrumental in the relocation of three facilities and oversaw the $nineteen.7 1000000 renovations of the Komohana Research and Extension Center. He is too known for his enquiry, authoring more than 78 publications on Hawaiʻi's consign floriculture industry.

Laurie Onizuka (Civil Service)

Laurie Onizuka has been with UH Mānoa for ten years and has served in her current position as the department secretarial assistant for the political science department since 2007. She provides support to 21 full-time kinesthesia members, nearly 350 undergraduate and graduate students, nine educational activity assistants and 6 to 12 lecturers each semester. In 2014, the department's other APT employee left and the position was never filled due to upkeep bug. Onizuka took on those additional duties and has managed to keep the office running efficiently while maintaining a cheerful and friendly demeanor. Her nominator notes that Onizuka makes it possible for the section to meet its objectives and commends her many talents and qualities. She always acts with the best interests of the department in mind and serves with integrity and dedication to UH Mānoa. Her colleagues conclude that, "Laurie has gone above and beyond the level of service that could be expected beyond her job description. Recognizing her for this award would be an important style to acknowledge her extraordinary contribution to our academy."

Allyson Tanouye (Faculty Specialist)

Allyson Tanouye is a faculty specialist and director of the Student Affairs Counseling and Educatee Development Eye (CDSC), a position she has held for more twenty years. She also serves as director of Mental Health and Wellness for the UH Arrangement. CDSC provides a multitude of on-campus back up services to students ranging from career counseling, support of distressed students and commitment of mental health services. She adult and maintains the nationally accredited doctoral psychology internship program and continues to grow the Counselor-in-Residence (CIR) plan. Under her leadership, CDSC has increased its staff to include additional full- and part-time psychologists, resulting in more access to mental wellness services for the university educatee population. The CIR program has too grown to a squad of 5 therapists that rotate on-call coverage weekly for crisis situations. Recently, the program was honored by the National Clan of Pupil Personnel Administrators Region Half-dozen with the 2016 Innovative Program Award. Her colleagues note that "Allyson's feel, expertise and work literally saves lives. She is a retainer leader and an astonishing example of a state employee dedicated to the wellness and success of others."

Faculty Diversity Enhancement Laurels

The Faculty Diverseness Enhancement Laurels from the UH Mānoa Commission on Inclusion and Diversity recognizes a faculty fellow member who has demonstrated an ongoing delivery to enhancing diverseness.

Barbara Bruno

In her twenty-twelvemonth tenure, Barbara Bruno, a faculty specialist with the Hawaiʻi Plant of Geophysics and Planetology, has served in a diversity of roles, including co-creation of the minority-focused C-MORE (Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education) scholars program that provides cutting-edge enquiry and educational opportunities to students, with 71 percent being underrepresented minorities. As co-chief investigator of ʻIke Wai, she obtained a $20-million National Scientific discipline Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research grant to secure Hawaiʻi's water future. She is the project manager and co-founder of the School of Ocean and Earth Scientific discipline and Technology Maile Mentoring Span programs that inspire Native Hawaiian, kamaʻāina and individuals of other underrepresented ethnicities to pursue ocean, Earth and environmental science professions. These programs create unique mentoring relationships that offer support, encouragement and the sharing of noesis. Her strategic vision, empathy and drive accept enriched the lives of students and faculty throughout the UH System.

Peter 5. Garrod Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Laurels

Established by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Graduate Division in 2005, the Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award allows graduate students to nominate faculty for excellent mentoring, one of the foundations of outstanding graduate instruction.

Jon-Paul Bingham

Upon joining the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering (MBBE) in 2007, Jon-Paul Bingham offset led a charge to redesign the biochemistry core educational activity in an effort to provide professional development courses for MBBE graduate students. His dedication to students earned him the reputation as a "go the job done" professor. Having worked with more than 30 graduate research students, he now serves as departmental graduate chair, enhancing one of UH Mānoa'due south largest graduate programs. He has engaged MBBE graduate students to take responsibility for planning their future careers and professional goals, thus empowering them to prosper from their UH Mānoa education. Just every bit Bingham will stress, "This is non just one person's efforts, but the endeavors of dedicated faculty and motivated students wishing to improve their graduate experience at UHM." Bingham says he just provided the map, the compass, and raised the bar a few notches.

Cooperative Education Student of the Twelvemonth

Integrating classroom study with planned and supervised work, the Mānoa Career Center recognizes an outstanding Cooperative Instruction student who has made significant contributions in their Co-op placements, campus and community.

Melissa Henry

Melissa Henry, an undergraduate student in the School of Nursing who graduates this semester, is described as an avid learner who always asks excellent questions. Her co-op was with the Straub Medical Center'southward Emergency Department. Henry'due south commitment to her co-op is evidenced past her high quality work. Her nominator noted, "In the last few months of her Co-op, Melissa worked her way up to analogous treat 2 to iii patients while maintaining a calm demeanor and building respectful rapport with patients and their families."

Outstanding Academic Advisor / Advising Unit of measurement Laurels

The Council of Academic Advisors recognizes an individual or unit of measurement who, over the past two years, has demonstrated excellence and/or innovation in advising, and/or has made a significant contribution to the advising customs.

Garrett Clanin (Pakela Award)

Garrett Clanin is a inferior specialist academic counselor with Student-Athlete Bookish Services (SAAS). He is the master liaison for GradesFirst, a spider web-based system designed to increase student engagement, amend advice and place at-risk students for early on intervention. Clanin ensures that the organisation operates effectively and works with other advising units to determine if GradesFirst will serve their students' needs. Additionally, he serves equally SAAS's eligibility coordinator and as liaison to the Athletics Compliance Department and advising units beyond campus regarding NCAA bookish eligibility and certification. His piece of work in this capacity ensures that student-athletes meet both UH Mānoa and NCAA requirements in club to exist successful in both arenas. Clanin also plays a lead role in the annual orientation for new student-athletes and has worked difficult at keeping the program engaging for students. He is described past colleagues as having an excellent rapport with his students and other advisors, and is an invaluable resource for students and colleagues akin.

Advising Center for the Colleges of Arts & Humanities and Languages, Linguistics & Literature (ʻOikela Honour)

The Advising Center for the Colleges of Arts and Humanities and Languages, Linguistics and Literature was established in 2015 equally role of the reorganization of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Pupil Academic Services. The Advising Eye provides services to its students and other arts and sciences majors (particularly in the concrete sciences) without interruption. The creation of "tiered access to advising" and the coordinated efforts of the new eight-person squad led by Ruth O. Bingham has improved student access to advising and alleviated long wait lines. The team also includes Kay S. Hamada, Nanette C. Miles, Craig Mitchell, Julie Terlaje, David Yeo, Heather Young and Carolina Asiatico. Additionally, the Advising Center worked collaboratively to create new bookish advising programs designed to help students stay focused and on runway. The Advising Center has developed and implemented new and innovative methods to improve its services and to provide students with the support they need to exist successful.

Pupil Excellence in Enquiry (Doctoral Level)

The Student Excellence in Inquiry Award is awarded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Inquiry in recognition of outstanding scholarly research endeavors past students while they pursue a caste at the doctoral, main's or bachelor's level.

Mapuana Antonio

Mapuana Antonio is a Native Hawaiian doctoral student dedicated to advancing the health of indigenous people. Her research explores associations involving stress, coping, obesity, diabetes and general health among Native Hawaiians, especially those residing on Hawaiian Homestead Lands. For her dissertation, she validated a tool to measure resilience among Native Hawaiians and demonstrated a significant relationship betwixt resilience and health. During her doctoral program, she served as co-investigator of the Papakōlea Hawaiian Homestead Community Health Survey and equally a research assistant for the National Institutes of Wellness-funded PILI ʻOhana Programme. Antonio also has gained international research experience as a scholar in the Māhina International Indigenous Health Research Training Program. To date, her publications catalog successful public health programs addressing the mental and concrete wellness of indigenous adolescents and explore associations betwixt perceived racism, obesity and overall health.

William M. Best

Following a xv-year career teaching math, physics and counseling at Punahou School, William Best joined UH Mānoa to pursue a doctorate in his lifelong passion for astronomy. He studies the backdrop of brown dwarfs (faint gaseous bodies with masses in between planets and stars) that reside in our neighborhood of the galaxy. He does this using the infrequent ground-based telescopes in Hawaiʻi, particularly the Pan-STARRS broad-field survey telescope, which is producing a digital multi-colour movie of the sky. His dissertation work is yielding new insights about how and when nearby brownish dwarfs formed and also how they modify over time. Best brings intellect, diligence and enthusiasm to his enquiry and has been recognized as the 2017 ARCS (Advancing Science in America) Scholar in astronomy.

Glen Grand. Chew

Glen Chew has a high affinity for scientific discipline and applied science and brings novel effective ideas to his PhD research projection in the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding mechanisms driving immune dysfunction during chronic viral infections. Equally a PhD candidate, he has published a outset-authored, peer-reviewed scientific manuscript on his inquiry and also contributed to 9 co-authored publications. He received the 2016 Koenig Award in Medicine from the ARCS foundation (Honolulu Chapter) and the 2015 and 2016 Chancellor Virginia S. Hinshaw Biomedical Research Scholarships for his research. Chew also presented his inquiry at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in 2014 and 2017 and at the International AIDS Society in 2015. His enquiry will lead to ways to harness the immune organisation to prevent, control or eliminate HIV infection and optimize quality of life outcomes.

Student Employee of the Year Laurels

The Pupil Employee of the Year Program was created in 1986 past the Mānoa Career Heart to recognize and highlight the achievements and contributions of pupil employees on the UH Mānoa campus.

Tyler Lum

Tyler Lum of the Ocean Grant College Programme'due south Hanauma Bay Education Program is a inferior majoring in biological science. This program assistant skillfully combines the knowledge he has gained through the UH marine biology program with effective education and outreach activities geared toward the well-nigh 800,000 visitors annually at the pop nature preserve. He has grown professionally and personally while in this position, evidenced past his option as the 2017 Hawaiʻi Land Winner of the Western Association of Educatee Employment Administrators.

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