{"id":4186626,"date":"2014-05-05T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/?p=4186626"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T21:02:28","slug":"departmental-awards-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/departmental-awards-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental awards 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h4>Kern-Clark Award<\/h4>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/david-webb-kern-clark.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[award]\">\r\n\t<img height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/david-webb-kern-clarks.jpg\"  class=\"alignleft\" \/> \r\n<\/a>\r\n<p>\r\n\tThe Mathematics Department gives an undergraduate award each year prior to commencement, the Kern-Clark Award. The department \r\n\tgives these awards to undergraduates whose performance in their mathematics classes has been outstanding. The winner of the 2013 Kern-Clark award is David Webb.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h4>Departmental teaching awards<\/h4>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/dayna-kitsuwa-ta-teaching.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[award]\">\r\n\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/dayna-kitsuwa-ta-teachings.jpg\"  class=\"alignright\" \/> \r\n<\/a>\r\n<p>\r\n\tThe Department also gives two Excellence in Teaching Awards\r\n\teach year, one to&#160;a graduate teaching assistant&#160; and the other\r\n\tto a faculty member, both of whom have been outstanding teachers. The winners of these awards in 2014 are <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/kitsuwa\/\">Dayna Kitsuwa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/spost\/\">Sarah Post<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"clearer\"><\/div>\r\nThe Teaching Award Committee's citation for Post's award reads:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/sarah-post-teaching-excel.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[award]\">\r\n\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/sarah-post-teaching-excels.jpg\"  class=\"alignright\" \/> \r\n<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>In addition to excellent undergraduate teaching, Sarah Post has consistently\r\ncontributed to the department\u2019s mission to serve undergraduate and graduate\r\nstudents: recruiting prospective graduate students at the Joint Math Meetings,\r\nrecruiting prospective math majors at the Manoa Experience Fair, and supporting the activities of the Manoa Math Ohana undergraduate club.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nOn top of this, Sarah has volunteered her time to participate in outreach\r\nactivities with K-12 students and teachers: leading a workshop for the Math\r\nTeachers Circle Hawaii, and helping with the organization and a math activity\r\nfor the recent (and very successful) \u201cExpanding Your Horizons\u201d event for middle\r\nschool girls. This summer, she and two collaborators will introduce early high\r\nschool students to mathematical modeling in the \u201cHoneybee Math Summer\r\nProgram.\u201d\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nIn recognition of this outstanding work and her continued efforts to improve\r\nmathematics teaching and learning both inside and outside the university, we\r\naward Sarah Post this year\u2019s Faculty Teaching Award.\r\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<h4>Achievement Scholarships<\/h4>\r\n<p>\r\nThis year we also have 3 recipients of the Fall 2014-Spring 2015 College of Natural Sciences Achievement Scholarship:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/david-webb-nat-sci.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[award]\">\r\n\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/david-webb-nat-scis.jpg\"  class=\"alignright\" \/> \r\n<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/nicole-isoda.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[award]\">\r\n\t<img height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/nicole-isodas.jpg\"  class=\"alignright\" \/> \r\n<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/daniel-inafuku-nat-sci.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[award]\">\r\n\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/images\/awards2014\/daniel-inafuku-nat-scis.jpg\"  class=\"alignright\" \/> \r\n<\/a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>    Daniel Inafuku<\/li>\r\n<li>    Nicole Isoda<\/li>\r\n<li>    David Webb<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186626"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219479,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186626\/revisions\/4219479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}