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Professor Tsang and research team received the Governor’s Award in 2010 as State Team of the Year for developing hot water systems for disinfesting exports.

Professor Mathews is best known for his research on nutrient cycling in tropical pastures and potentially environmentally sensitive release of phosphorus from pasture soils to surface waters.

Professor Martin studies consumer behavior, advertising, brand management, strategic marketing, and international marketing.

Professor Calton’s research tackles conventional theoretical assumptions about the primacy of the focal firm and the need for managers to deliver single bottom line profitability, often at the expense of poor stakeholder relations.

Assistant Professor Masuda’s research examines K-12 teaching practices, including student learning, the analyzing of student work, professional development and practitioner inquiry among colleagues.

Associate Professor Diane Barrett’s research focuses mainly on math education, including inquiry in the math and science classroom, pedagogical content knowledge, assessment, and the impact of teacher collaboration on student learning.

Associate Professor Kimura’s decades of work can be traced back to the conception of core foundational educational programs in the 1980s that launched the rebirth of the Hawaiian language.

Associate Professor Housman’s primary research supports the development of literacy curriculum used in Hawaiian language immersion schools statewide.

Associate Professor Okuyama also is working with a group of UH Hilo computer science majors to develop a mobile-based, prototype application for Japanese language learning games.

Associate Professor of Communication Becker examines the ways communication contributes to the transformation of organizational, cultural, or family systems.

The genetic research helps answer many conservation management questions, an important component to making the best decisions possible based on good information.

Assistant Professor Tao’s ultimate goal is to have a greater understanding of how mitotic motors regulate cell division, and to find an effective way to cure cancer.

The Jarvi laboratory currently has two main areas of investigation: avian pathogens and rat lungworm disease.

Associate Professor Juarez’s research focuses on medication adherence, cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular interventions, and health disparities, particularly involving Asian and Pacific Americans.

Associate Professor Marusek specializes in legal geography, legal semiotics, and constitutive legal theory within the disciplinary field of public law.

Professor Belt’s research on homelessness has resulted in the collection of the richest, most detailed study to date on the attitudes and opinions of homeless people.