Search Results for: Quintessential University Citizens

Tracy Wiegner

UH Hilo Quintessential University Citizen: Tracy Wiegner, marine scientist teaches students and communities about coastal water quality

Professor of Marine Science Tracy Wiegner is motivated by her students and the local community to discover and share as much knowledge as possible about the water quality of Hawai‘i Island’s coasts.

Michele Ebersole

UH Hilo Quintessential University Citizen: Michele Ebersole, changing K-12 education with aloha

Embedded within all the work of Professor of Education Michele Ebersole—administrative, teaching, research, community outreach—is the professor’s personal and profound infusion of aloha: love, compassion, and kindness. 

Justina Mattos formal business portrait.

UH Hilo Quintessential University Citizen: Justina Mattos, theater arts educator extraordinaire

Assistant Professor Justina Mattos’s passion about educating students—from grade school to university—has brought her recognition from the Chancellor’s Executive Council as a UH Hilo Quintessential University Citizen.

Paula Gealon

UH Hilo Quintessential University Citizen: Paula Gealon, award administrator and “great navigator”

Paula Gealon is responsible for all extramural awards to UH Hilo, and has been at the task for 20 years this April. She is highly respected among faculty and administrators for her knowledge of grant processes and practices—one researcher calls her “the great navigator and translator of it all.”