SHINING STARS
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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