Weekly Newsletter for Faculty & Staff, Nov. 4, 2020
Featured in this week’s issue of Ha‘ilono o UH Hilo (News of UH Hilo): Sadie Nguyen, Michelle Shuey, Marianne Takamiya, Annie Bunker, Raisa Ancheta, Brendan Sagara, Kevin Tamura, and more!
Category: Alumni
UH Hilo business alum Raisa Ancheta heads for UC Irvine med school
Following her graduation from UH Hilo in 2011, Raisa Ancheta worked as a senior accountant at a brokerage firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, but found her interests pulled her to learning more about science.
UH Hilo students take online finance class with classmates located in Asia and North America
The classes are taught through an online method where students located in different countries learn together through a virtual yet interactive structure.
UH Hilo alumna Meghan “Wonder Woman” Langbehn is now a real life superhero
When at UH Hilo, Meghan “Wonder Woman” Langbehn played soccer, ran cross country, and studied in the UH nursing program, all in the same semester. Now she’s a nurse in Seattle working for one of the top hospitals in the region.
Speakers at 2020 Domestic Violence Summit encourage a community approach to stop the problem
At the first of three webinars scheduled during October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, speaker after speaker encouraged better interventions through a supportive community.
Hawai‘i Community College and UH Hilo alum now at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Ala Matsumoto, a Hawai‘i Community College graduate who then enrolled at UH Hilo where he earned a pre-veterinary bachelor of science degree with a biology minor, is now enrolled at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
UH Hilo alumna behind lens during Venus life-detection study
E’lisa Lee was among the researchers at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Maunakea when the gas phosphine was observed in Venus’s upper clouds.
In the age of covid, IT supervisor Reid Kubo and team are heroes at UH Hilo pharmacy college
With Reid Kubo’s impressive leadership from the onset of the pandemic, the IT team ensured that access to integral components of the pharmacy program have remained accessible to students.
