Nominees for the 2022 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year Awards

It gives us great pleasure to announce the nominees for the 2022 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year (OEY) awards. Please join us in congratulating:

Researcher/Project Manager Category

  • Jesse Abdul, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
  • Cris Milne, Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS, UH John A. Burns School of Medicine
  • Hank Oppenheimer, Maui Nui Plant Extinction Prevention Program, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, UH College of Natural Sciences

Project Support Staff Category

  • Kelsey McBeain, Department of Oceanography, UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
  • Naomi Moran, Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  • Joanna Norton, Cassava Improvement Project, UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources

Team Category

  • UH Cancer Center, Shepherd Research Lab – Nisa Kelly and En Liu
  • UH Information Technology Services, Cyberinfrastructure – Michelle Choe, Sean Cleveland, Maria Dumanlang, Jennifer Geis, and Jared McLean
  • UH Social Science Research Institute, Telecommunications and Social Informatics Program – Umerang Imetengel, Ginger Porter, and Alyssa Shimizu

We wish to thank the 9 Principal Investigators who nominated these exceptional individuals. The OEY awards program encourages, recognizes, and rewards RCUH employees who have made demonstrable, significant, and exemplary contributions to their project during the past fiscal year or years. All nominees will be honored at an awards luncheon in the fall.