UROC – Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Council (UROC) is UROP’s faculty advisory board that consists of full-time UHM faculty from a wide range of disciplines across campus. UROC members are responsible for the following:

Facilitate and promote opportunities for undergraduate students across all disciplines at UHM to engage in collaborative, faculty-mentored research and creative work, particularly in their academic unit
Participate in the review of student funding applications, including Project and Presentation funding applications
Provide discipline-specific knowledge to develop policy and strategic direction for the UROP to better serve the needs of students in their discipline and the broader UHM campus

UROP is deeply grateful to the service that UROC members provide to the undergraduate research and creative work community at UHM!

Current UROC members:

Name	Position	Unit
A. Zachary Trimble	Associate Professor	Mechanical Engineering
Aaron Ohta	Professor	Electrical Engineering
Ashley Rubin	Associate Professor	Sociology
Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada	Assistant Professor	Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
C. Harrison Kim	Assistant Professor	History
Craig Nelson	Assistant Researcher	Oceanography
Creighton M. Litton	UROC Chair, Professor	UROP, Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Daisuke Takagi	Associate Professor	Mathematics
Deborah Mattheus	Assistant Professor	Nursing & Dental Hygiene
Ellinor Haglund	Assistant Professor	Chemistry
Erin Kahunawai Wright	Associate Professor	Educational Administration
Jonas Vibell	Assistant Professor	Psychology
Mapuana Antonio	Assistant Professor	Public Health Studies
Michael Guidry	UG Chair, Specialist	Global Environmental Science, Oceanography
Michelle Tallquist	Professor	Medicine
Pei-Ling Kao	Associate Professor	Theatre and Dance
Pratibha Nerurkar	Professor	Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering
Scott Groeniger	Associate Professor	Art & Art History
Stuart Donachie	Associate Professor	Microbiology
Travis Idol	Professor	Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Zhenhua Huang	Professor	Ocean and Resources Engineering

Past UROC Members:

Name	Position	Unit
Chris Lepczyk	Assistant Professor	Natural Resources and Environmental Management
David J. Royer	Assistant Professor	Special Education
Debra Mark	Director, Assistant Professor	Office of Research and Extramural Programming, Nursing
Dominic Chow	Associate Professor	Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Dongping Zheng	Assistant Professor	Second Language Studies
Fred Roster	Professor	Art
Ho Leung Ng	Assistant Professor	Chemistry
Lipyeow Lim	Associate Professor	Information and Computer Sciences
Lorey Takahashi	Professor	Psychology
Lori Ideta	Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students	Office of Student Affairs
Loriena Yancura	Associate Professor	Family and Consumer Sciences
Maria Chun	Specialist	Surgery
Miguel Felipe	Associate Professor	Music
Miriam Stark	Professor	Anthropology
Patricia Couvillon	Associate Professor	Psychology, Pacific Biosciences Research Center
Peter Hoffmann	Associate Professor	Cell and Molecular Biology
Qing Li	Professor	Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering
Reza Ghorbani	Associate Professor	Mechanical Engineering
Sandra von Doetinchem	Program Specialist	Outreach College
Scott Sinnett	Assistant Professor	Psychology
Shana Brown	Associate Professor	History
Steven Robinow	Professor	Zoology
Terry Hunt	Chair, Director, Professor	UROC, Honors Program, Anthropology
Vernadette Gonzalez	Chair, Director, Associate Professor	UROC, Honors Program, American Studies
Wendy Kawabata	Associate Professor	Art & Art History
Kasey Barton	Associate Professor	School of Life Sciences
Rakan (Zak) Zahawi	Director	Lyon Arboretum