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UH science graduates receive cash awards

The Honolulu chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Inc. presented 24 $5,000 awards to University of Hawaii graduates. Michael Boyle, a zoology doctoral candidate, received an extra $1,000 with the Scholar of the Year award, and the Maybelle Roth Award in Conservation Biology. Melissa Agsalda received the Ellen M. Koenig Award in Medicine; Austin Anderson, ARCS Award in Mathematics; Andrea Blas, ARCS Award in Tropical Agriculture; Jennifer Brum, ARCS/Farrar Award in Oceanography; Jeremy Claisse, ARCS Award in Marine Biology; Tracey Freitas, ARCS Award in Microbiology; Lana Gimber, HMSA Award in Community Medicine; Kevin Hall, Sarah Ann Martin Award in Zoology; Samuel Hulme, Toby Lee Award in Geology and Geophysics; Jess Kaneshiro, Robbins Award in Solar Energy Research; Laurel King, Columbia Communications Award in Telecommunications and Computer Science; Jill Kobashigawa, Shelagh Kresser Award in Engineering; Ivy Lo, Bretzlaff Foundation Award in Engineering; Lisa Mandle, Sarah Ann Martin Award in Botany; Kurtis Nishimura, Robert Pulley Award in Physics; Yvette Paulino, Clifford Laughton and Jackie Takeshita Award in Cancer Research; Benjamin Philmus, Sarah Ann Martin Award in Chemistry; Randall Roark, M.J. Amundson Award in Nursing; Steven Rodney, Helen Jones Farrar Award in Astronomy; Alison Stimpert, Doris Pulley Award in Cetacean Research; Gloria Tumbaga, ARCS/Starbuck Award in Medicine; Mayee Wong, Theodore T. and Pearl K. Tomita Award in Infectious Diseases; Lindsay Young, Maybelle Roth Award in Conservation Biology.

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