UH Hilo Speakers’ Bureau 2020-2021

By Topic

Agriculture, Aquaculture

• Michael Adrian Barnes, Aquaculture
  • Aquaponics as Alternative Fish and Vegetable Production
  • Small Scale Sustainable Aquaculture and Agriculture for Hawaiʻi
• Maria Haws, Aquaculture
  • General Aquaculture and Fisheries
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Using Shellfish and Limu for Water Quality and Conservation Purposes
  • Hilo Bay Shellfish Farming and Water Quality
  • Pearl Farming

Athletics

• Patrick Guillen, Athletics
  • Vulcan Athletics
  • Building a Team to Benefit the Community
  • Why Do We Need Coaches?
• Todd Inouye, Management
  • Sport Management

Business, Finance

• Bernard Balsis, Jr., Small Business Development Center
  • Business
  • Business Planning
• Kathleen Baumgardner, Office of the Chancellor
  • Founding a Nonprofit Organization/Social Entrepreneurship
  • Organizational Health and Strategic Planning
• Dennis Boyd, Small Business Development Center
  • Overview of Business Planning
  • Overview of Writing a Business Plan
  • How to Start a Business in Hawaiʻi
• Emmeline de Pillis, College of Business and Economics
  • College of Business and Economics: Building Students’ Lifelong Personal and Professional Networks
  • Business of Publishing
• Todd Inouye, Management
  • Business Strategy/Strategic Management
  • Business Startup
  • Negotiations
  • Strategic Planning
• Marty Kennedy, Small Business Development Center
  • Overview of Business Planning
  • Overview of Writing a Business Plan
  • How to Start a Business in Hawaiʻi
• Karen Pellegrin, Pharmacy/Rural Health
  • Evidence-based Strategic Management

Communication

• Farrah-Marie Gomes, Student Affairs
  • Communication Skills
• Randy Hirokawa, Communication
  • Communication and Group Decision-Making Effectiveness

Community Service, Engagement

• Patrick Guillen, Athletics
  • Community Service/Civic Engagement
• Julie Mowrer, Center for Community Engagement
  • Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning
• Sharon Ziegler-Chong, Research & Community Partnerships
  • Climate Adaptation through Community Research Partnerships
  • UH Hilo’s Conservation Partnerships Across the Island

Decision-Making

• Randy Hirokawa, Communication
  • Why Do Smart People Make Bad Decisions in Groups? The Case of the Space Shuttle Challenger

Diversity, Inclusion

• Farrah-Marie Gomes, Student Affairs
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Education

• Nina Buchanan, School of Education, Professor Emerita
  • K-12 School Choice
  • Educational Practices Outcomes Internationally
  • Motivating Reluctant Learners
• Bonnie D. Irwin, Administration
  • The Invention of Writing: How It Changed the Way
• Kelly Moran, Finance
  • Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) With Partner Universities in the Asia Pacific Region
  • Using the Cybercanoe Classroom to Facilitate COIL Virtual Exchange
  • How Intercultural Student Teams are Learning to Cooperatively Define Problems and Present Solutions
• Julie Mowrer, Center for Community Engagement
  • 21st Century Learning
  • Working with English Language Learners

Ethics

• Christopher Lauer, Philosophy
  • Ethics

Gender

• Farrah-Marie Gomes, Student Affairs
  • Women’s Issues [broad (i.e., feminism) to specific (i.e., equal pay data)]
• Bonnie D. Irwin, Administration
  • Veiling in the Muslim World: Oppression or Empowerment?

Health, Healthcare

• Ozan Atalag, Kinesiology & Exercise Science
  • Increasing the Body’s Defenses with Exercise: What Should We Do?
• Patricia Hensley, School of Nursing
  • Nursing
• Randy Hirokawa, Communication
  • What Makes a Health Care Team Effective?
• Carolyn Ma, Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy
  • Update on the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy
  • Why and How to Return Unused Medications in the Home
  • The Role of the Provider Pharmacist
• Camlyn Masuda, Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy
  • Diabetes
  • Pharmacist Working in Doctor's Office
• Karen Pellegrin, Pharmacy/Rural Health
  • Rural Health
  • Medication Management/Safety

Leadership

• Farrah-Marie Gomes, Student Affairs
  • Women’s Leadership
• Karen Pellegrin, Pharmacy/Rural Health
  • Evidence-based Leadership

Legends, Myths

• Bonnie D. Irwin, Administration
  • Who’s Really in the Bottle? Genies East and West
  • Did the Ancient Greeks Really Believe their Myths?

Literature

• Bonnie D. Irwin, Administration
  • War and Homecoming: How the Iliad and Odyssey Resonate Today
  • The 1001 Nights: Born in Baghdad, Adopted by the World
• Christopher Lauer, Philosophy
  • Intimacy: A Dialectical Study
• Kris Roney, Academic Affairs
  • Faustian Literature

Motivation

• Patrick Guillen, Athletics
  • What is a Winner?

Music

• Kris Roney, Academic Affairs
  • Punk Rock History
  • Heavy Metal

Natural Sciences

• Richard Griffiths, Physics & Astronomy
  • Thirty Years of Science with the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Big Telescopes - On the Ground and In Space
  • Black Holes
  • The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Christopher Knudson, Geography
  • Stream Restoration After the End of Sugar Production on Maui
  • Coffee Leaf Rust, with a Focus on Jamaica
• Rebecca Ostertag, Biology
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Invasive Species
  • Long-term Forest Dynamics in Relation to Climate
  • Hawaiian Ecology and Natural History
  • Tropical Forest Ecology and Management
• Ryan Perroy, Geography & Environmental Science
  • Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death
  • Lava Flow Monitoring

Philosophy

• Christopher Lauer, Philosophy
  • History of Western Philosophy
  • Why the Idea of “Western” Philosophy is a Racist Myth
  • Philosophy for Children

Social Causes

• Kathleen Baumgardner, Office of the Chancellor
  • Stories of Hope from a Nonprofit Café (cofounder, FoCo Café, Colorado)

Student Success, Opportunities

• Farrah-Marie Gomes, Student Affairs
  • Student Development, Empowerment, Motivation and/or Leadership
• Julie Mowrer, Center for Community Engagment
  • Student Engagement: Social, Emotional, Cognitive and Behavioral
• Valdeane Odachi, Student Support Services
  • Importance of Personal Finance Education, Especially for Grades 8-12 and College Students
• Kris Roney, Academic Affairs
  • Student Success Opportunities and Initiatives
• Todd Shumway, Global Exchange
  • International Exchange at UH Hilo and its Impact on Students
• Sharon Ziegler-Chong, Research & Community Partnerships
  • Growing Our Next Generation of Island Resource Managers and Leaders

Travel

• Nina Buchanan, School of Education, Professor Emerita
  • Economical & Enlightening Travel

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