What is your role in NREM?

I am the instructor that teaches NREM 192, NREM 203, NREM 251, and NREM 492 during the Spring. I also teach NREM 665 and have assisted with the MEM capstone courses.

What do you like about NREM?

I am delighted to be part of the NREM ʻohana (students, staff, and faculty). We are an amazing hui! As an NREM Instructor, I enjoy teaching students, being a mentor, and working alongside my teaching assistants. What the world needs right now is our NREM students. Every single one of them! I'm here to help them become what the world needs.

What was your best Halloween costume?

I am always a witch. It's natural.

Fun fact about yourself?

I've been a vegetarian since I was three years old. Apparently there was a traumatic experience that occurred in Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) and specifically with chicken feet!

What is your role in NREM?

I am a first-year graduate student in the MEM program. My advisor is Dr. Tomoaki Miura. At the moment I'm not working on a project, but I'm interested in invasive species and their effects on native ecosystems.

What do you like about NREM?

Meeting people from various backgrounds within NREM and hearing input about how we can better "manage" the environment. The fact that everyone in the program has different experiences and perspectives allows for such intensely thought-provoking conversations!

What was your best Halloween costume?

I haven't dressed up for Halloween in a long time, but my best costume was probably a train costume I made back in elementary school.

Fun fact about yourself ?

I fell into NREM by chance. When I was applying to UHM as an undergraduate, I only picked NREM because they had a Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. program when I was looking at the various majors offered. I ended up loving it!

Where are you in that cool photo?

Osaka, Japan.

What is your role in NREM?

Process hiring paperwork for our fabulous GA's, TA's, Casual hires, Lecturers, student assistants (all personnel actions); building coordinator for the HVAC work; telecom coordinator; key coordinator and other duties.

What do you like about NREM?

I get to meet all the new incoming GA's, TA's and get to know the current GA's a little better. I get to see some faculty members that I used to work with in St. John. The work keeps me super busy and the day goes by too fast. It seems like I don't have enough time during the work day to complete all my duties.

What was your best Halloween costume?

LOL...you have to ask my parents! I like to pass out candy to the children...the naughty ones get raisins!

Fun fact about yourself?

I like to do artsy fartsy stuff when time permits.