Message from President Gotanda

Message from Provost Walsh

Awards

Outstanding Research Award

Undergraduate Division:

  • Catalina Ferrari "Population Genetics of Panulirus Versicolor" (Marine Biology)

  • Bryon Noletti "Efficacy of Conditional Development Aid in Reducing Corruption" (Political Science)

  • Abigail Fitzgerald "The impact of large and small plastic debris pollution on Hawaiian coral reefs" (Marine Biology)

Graduate Division:

  • William Mayer "The Mirror and the Lantern: Churchill's Heroes and Role Models" (Diplomacy & Military Studies)

  • Raquel Corniuk, Jennifer Lynch, Michael Arendt, Joanne Braun-McNeill, David Owens, John Kucklick and Patricia McClellan-Green "Using plasma vitellogenin in loggerhead sea turtles to assess reproductive maturation and estrogenic contaminant exposure" (Marine Science)

Outstanding Project with Practical Application Award

Undergraduate Division:

  • Benson Yuen, Brett Warrender, Dawn Bacon, Wesley O'Neill and Johann-Sebastian Ochoa "Cyber Security Awareness project (Computer Science)

  • Amber Smith "The Impact of Kindergarten Peer Relationships in the Classroom" (Education)

Graduate Division:

  • Joshua Nelson "Sharing Meteorological Information and Tsunami Warnings through Mobile Technology to Mitigate the Need for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief" (Information Systems)

  • Jason Boff "Using Blockchain Fundamentals to Ensure Confidence in Evidence Chain-of-Custody" (Information Systems)

  • Hannah Cagle "Strategies to Reduce Compassion Fatigue In Healthcare Providers" (Nursing)

Outstanding Internship/Practicum Award

  • Cascade Mayer "The Use of Ecotourism to Advance Apex Predator Research and Educational Outreach Through Citizen Science" (Marine Science)

Outstanding Creative Work Award

  • Feena Bonoan "The Wall: AntiPosteriori" (Multimedia Cinematic Production)

Dean's Award

College of Business:

  • Jacob Stedman, Frieda Clanton, John Siquig, Dien Nguyen, Darryl Hicks, Carl Miller, Jennifer Alviar, Tim Shaner, Jason Boff and Kyle Kurizaki "Hospitality Augmented Reality Mobile Application Information Systems" (Information Systems)

College of Health and Society:

  • Anthony Pack "Too Good For Drugs: Improving Impact of Alcohol Awareness Among Youth in the Waimanalo Community" (Public Health)

College of Liberal Arts:

  • Matteo Socciarelli "Heteronormative discourse in second-language academic settings: A corpus-assisted analysis" (TESOL)

College of Natural and Computational Sciences:

  • Kerrianne O'Malley, Natasha Sawickij, Granya Boyd, Jens Currie and Jennifer Lynch "Using Polymer Identification as a Method to Evaluate the Success of Maui County’s Ban on Expanded Polystyrene Food-Service Takeout Containers" (Marine Biology)

College of Professional Studies:

  • Jenny Dou "Exploration of Elementary and Secondary Math Teaching in China" (Education)

Award for Most Commented Presentation

This presentation video received the most comments, with the number of views equal to or higher than the number of comments.

  • Matteo Socciarelli "Heteronormative discourse in second-language academic settings: A corpus-assisted analysis"

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Instructions for winners

Winners (all group members if presenting in a group) will receive an email from Dr. Mary Smith about your electronic award certificate and gift card. We will be using your HPU email addresses only. Please email Dr. Mary Smith <mlsmith@hpu.edu> if you have any questions.