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Annual awards

Zola Odonnell won the Rui Zong Yeh Award, presented by Associate Chair Sarah Widiasih Post.

The outstanding teaching assistant awards were presented to Swarnalakshmi Lakshmanan and Moriah Aberle.

Sakura Takahashi received the Kern-Clark award.

Mark Ciaravino also received a Rui Zong Yeh Award.

Kristina Nakahara received an award: the Karl, Rose, and Joseph Seff Scholarship Endowment Award.

Malachi Cape received the Seff Award as well.

Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen received The Excellence in Teaching Award for his work mentoring students at all levels from undergraduate researchers to PhDs.

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Fulbright fellow in actuarial science

We are excited to welcome Bogdan Norkin who is visiting our department as a Fulbright Fellow during 2026.

A permanent member of scientific staff at the Institute for Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine, he is in Hawaii to conduct research on insurance mathematics and risk processes with Hua Chen (Shidler College of Business) and Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen (Math).

The team is pictured during an informal discussion of car insurance.