The RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year Awards encourage, recognize, and reward RCUH employees who have made demonstrable, significant, and exemplary contributions to their project. Congratulations to the 2021 nominees!
Researcher/Project Manager Category
Amber Imai-Hong
UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory
Nominated by Principal Investigator Frances Zhu
Amy Weintraub
Hawaii Academy of Science
Nominated by Principal Investigator Neal Atebara
Cassie Stelow
Pacific Disaster Center
Nominated by Principal Investigator Ray Shirkhodai
Howard Morrow
Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawai’i
Nominated by Principal Investigator Margo Edwards
Mark Huber
UH Institute for Astronomy, Pan-STARRS
Nominated by Principal Investigator Kenneth Chambers
Melanie Hutchinson
UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
Nominated by Principal Investigator Douglas Luther, CIMAR Deputy Director Jeffrey Hare
Robin Hayes
UH Institute for Astronomy, Maunakea Observatories Support Services
Nominated by Principal Investigator Stewart Hunter
Serge Chastel
UH Institute for Astronomy, Pan-STARRS
Nominated by Principal Investigator Richard Wainscoat
Project Support Staff Category
Alycia Fujii
UH Mānoa College of Education, Curriculum Research & Development Group
Nominated by Principal Investigator Dean Lodes
Andrea Alexander
UH Mānoa College of Education, Center on Disability Studies
Nominated by Principal Investigator Chuan Chinn
Claudine Chan-Naruse
UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawai’i and Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center
Nominated by Principal Investigator Kelley Withy
Dylan Davis
UH Mānoa College of Natural Sciences, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit – Ko’olau Mountains Watershed Partnership
Nominated by Principal Investigator Clifford Morden
Elizabeth Dingeldein
UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Center for Conservation Research & Training
Nominated by Principal Investigator Kenneth Kaneshiro
Eva Brill
UH Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Natural Resources & Environmental Management
Nominated by Principal Investigator J.B. Friday
Martin Holzgang
Kapi’olani Community College, Title III Lawelawe Po’okela Project
Nominated by Principal Investigator Louise Pagotto
Peter Oshiro
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nominated by Principal Investigator Ming-Tang Chen
Rosalind Kia
UH Mānoa College of Education, Center on Disability Studies
Nominated by Principal Investigator Jennifer Tarnay
Vannida Phommachanh
UH Mānoa College of Natural Sciences, High Energy Physics
Nominated by Principal Investigator Thomas Browder
Yoshiyuki Doi
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Subaru Telescope
Nominated by Principal Investigator Michitoshi Yoshida
Yumi Nagayoshi
UH Institute for Astronomy, Maunakea Observatories Support Services
Nominated by Principal Investigator David Lonborg
Team Category
Hawai’i Health Data Warehouse
Katherine Benson, Jill Yamashita, Kristine Hironaka
UH Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies
Nominated by Principal Investigator Rebekah Rodericks
Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project
Hanna Mounce, Laura Berthold, Zachary Pezzillo
UH Mānoa College of Natural Sciences, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit
Nominated by Principal Investigator Shaya Honarvar
National Disaster Preparedness Training Center
Lydia Morikawa, Melissa Peneyra, Amanda Bates
UH Mānoa Social Science Research Institute
Nominated by Principal Investigator Karl Kim
Sport Fish Restoration (Monitoring)
McKenna Allen, Mia Melamed
Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources
Nominated by Principal Investigator Heather Ylitalo-Ward
UH Cancer Center Pathology Core
Hugh Luk, Keiko Garvin, Kyle Nishiyama, Xue Mei Zhu
UH Cancer Center
Nominated by Principal Investigators Brenda Hernandez and Owen Chan