2020-21 ZOOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS

Valentina Alvarez: E. Alison Kay Grant 

Narrissa Brown: STAR Scholarship

Maria Costantini: EECB Maybelle Roth Award, Hawai’i Conservation Conference Best Speed Talk, Tester Symposium Best Talk

Jordan Gossett: E. Alison Kay Grant

Tom Iwanicki: GSO Hannah Liebreich Merit-Based Award for Teaching

Vania Lima Fernandes: Outstanding TA Award, Tester Symposium Best Talk

Hannah Moon: British Ornithological Union Ornithological Research Grant, Graduate Women in Science Research & Travel Grant, RCUH Graduate Fellowship, STAR Scholarship

Marisa McDonald: Jessie D. Kay Grant

Helen Sung: Dai Ho Chun Fund Graduate Fellowship, EECB Yoshimoto Fellowship


2019-20 ZOOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS 

Alexandria Barkman: Edmondson Trust research grant

Erik Brush: Edmondson Trust research grant

Luke Campillo: GVR travel award to the North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC)

Maria Costantini: Jessie D Kay research grant, Graduate Women in Science Hawaii Research and Travel Award, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship 

Taylor Ely: Edmondson Trust research grant

Austin Greene: Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Robinson Fellowship and Lord Scholarship, Purple Maia Research and Innovation Prize, E Alison Kay Foundation research grant, Edmondson Trust research grant, Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid-of Research research grant, National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis: The Search for Selection Award 

Kaleonani Hurley: Carol Ann and Myron K Hayashida HIMB Student Support Scholarship, Colonel Willys E Lord DVM and Sadina L Lord Scholarship, Sea Grant Peter J Rappa Sustainable Coastel Development Fellowship

Thomas Iwanicki: Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction from Alberta Scholarships

Kaitlyn Jacobs: Edmondson Trust research grant

Ryan Jones: Edmondson Trust research grant

Claire Lewis: Jessie D Kay research grant

Marisa McDonald: Edmondson Trust research grant

Hannah Moon: People’s Choice Award at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group, American Ornithological Society Research Award 

Patrick Nichols: Clean Reefs research grant, International Coral Reef Society Travel Award 

Randi Rollins: UHM Graduate Student Organization Merit Based Award for Research by a PhD Student

Van Wishingrad: Dai Ho Chun Fund Graduate Fellowship, Laura Bassi Editorial Scholarship, UHM Graduate Student Organization Travel Award 


2018-19 ZOOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS

Luke Campillo:  Jessie Kay Award

Maria Costantini:  Guest Van Riper Award

Austin Greene:  E. Alison Kay Grant, Edmondson Award

Ryan Jones:  3 Minute Thesis Competition Top 10

Claire Lewis:  Sea Grant Biennial Fellowship

Hanna Moon:  3 Minute Thesis Competition Top 10, Best Graduate Student Presentation, Hawai‘i Conservation Conference, People’s Choice Award for Best Talk, Pacific Seabird Group

Robyn Screen:  Tester Symposium Best Talk

Helen Sung:  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship


2017-18 ZOOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS

Valentina Alvarez: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

James Anderson: National Geographic Grant

Erik Brush: E. Alison Kay Award

Luke Campillo: EECB Carson Fellowship

Sean Canfield: UHM GSA Grant, Sigma Xi Grant–in-Aid

Emily Conklin: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Tom Iwanicki: NSERC Fellowship, Edmondson Fund Award, UHM Outstanding International Student Award, UHM June Chun Naughton International Student Award

Jessica Schaefer: Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid

Robyn Screen: E. Alison Kay Award

Narrissa Spies: Mellon-Hawai’i Doctoral Fellowship

Helen Sung: Guest Van Riper Grant

Molly Timmers: NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship

Lindsay Veazey: Guest Van Riper Grant

Van Wishingrad: ARCS Foundation Roth Fellowship, Systematics Research Fund Grant


2016-17 ZOOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS

Zoology Graduate Students published over 20 papers in 2016! Congratulations to everyone who published as well as to the following students on their recent accomplishments:

Claire Lewis: The Charles H. and Margaret B. Edmondson Research Fund

Mark Royer: The Jessie D. Kay Memorial Research Grant

Luke Campillo and Claire Lewis: The Elizabeth Alison Kay Endowed Award

Tom Iwanicki: The Tester Symposium Award for Best Paper 

Sean Canfield: The Lord/Lord Fellowship 

Richard Coleman: The Nancy Foster Scholarship

Ale’alani Dudoit: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and The Kamehameha Schools ‘Imi Na’auao Scholarship

Jessica Maxfield: The NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant and The Soroptomist Fellowship

Narissa Spies: The NOAA Marine Education and Training Grant 

Richard Coleman, Kaleonani Hurley, and Lindsey Veazey: Funded Sea Grant Proposals