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Robyn Tasaka has created online platforms for students to use as they learn from a distance and she implemented some of these practices before COVID19. The No‘eau Center remains open in the sense that there are numerous guided workshops students can access. These workshops are essential when constructing a research paper, revising, and comprehending the process to writing a solid essay. She also works closely with No‘eau Center tutors, ensuring that students can submit papers online and receive timely feedback.
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Kawena Komeiji worked collaboratively with our IT Department to create a check-in app for students who still needed to visit the library in person, on March 23rd. She also created or improved on innovative technology platforms for students and faculty to use as they work from home, and she created a comprehensive list of resources for the larger community to access during this crisis.
2nd Nomination reason:
Dedication and reporting to work before closure of the library, Kawena Komeiji collaborated with the IT Department on creating a check-in app for students. She also worked diligently to ensure students and faculty would have access to resources as they worked from home; she also worked swiftly to create various community based resources to keep the larger community informed.
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/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wordpressvC270x80.png00UHPA/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wordpressvC270x80.pngUHPA2020-04-16 10:47:262020-04-16 11:27:20Kawena Komeiji nominated for creating a check-in app for students visiting the library
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People have always used humor to deal with life’s challenges. There is nothing funny about this corona virus but there is humor in how we deal with it. Nani and David created a Facebook page Covid-19: The Resistance Strikes Back which looks at the humor in such things as toilet paper hoarding, protective gear, staying sane during home isolation, and what pets think of all this. They warn “Not everyone has the same sense of humor. We try to avoid politics and unladylike language but sometimes we can’t resist.”
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/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wordpressvC270x80.png00UHPA/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wordpressvC270x80.pngUHPA2020-04-16 10:47:222020-04-16 11:27:10Nani Fox and David Duffy nominated for bringing us a little humor
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“She went home for Spring Break to take care of her mother who was awaiting heart valve surgery. After the March 12 announcement that UH was switching to online instruction, while taking care of her mother, she arranged to switch her two courses to online, setting up Zoom and encouraging guest lecturers to use a format most had never tried. Directing from the mainland, her two courses went online both synchronously and asynchronously, as students now live everywhere from the East Coast to Australia. Her mother’s operation on the 24th was a success but she has continued taking care of her, while juggling lectures, grading, and mentoring two grad students who are defending their theses this month. Asked if we could mention her, she replied: “I would be honored but there must be thousands of us doing the same!”
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Create bio-based products to reduce the spread of COVID-19
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“The two have been working together to produce hand sanitizer. Ken has donated over 70 pounds of aloe with another 50 pounds on the way. Jon-Paul cooked this up into 80 gallons of sanitizer. But they are just getting started, with their eyes on aloe plants throughout Oahu which will be sustainably harvested to meet the needs of frontline nurses and doctors treating Covid-19. Ken’s advice to us all: “Be kind, drink beer, and wash yo hands!”‘
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Dr Markus Wessendorf, Assist Prof Maile Speetjens and Production Manager Rick Greaver
Campus, Dept
Theatre and Dance
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Developing innovations to fight COVID-19
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University of Hawaiʻi researcher and Department of Theatre and Dance initiate effort to sew masks for health care workers
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) Assistant Research Professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and the Pacific Biosciences Research Center Angel Yanagihara, along with faculty, students and staff of the UHM Department of Theatre and Dance (T&D), are sewing homemade fabric masks to help with Hawaiʻi’s increasing shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers. On the T&D side, the effort is spearheaded by the head of the Costume Shop, Assistant Professor Maile Speetjens, and the Production Manager, Rick Greaver, with the support of the Chair Markus Wessendorf.
This effort is in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance that fabric masks are a crisis response option when other supplies have been exhausted. The masks will be pleated for better fit and made of 100 percent densely woven “breathable” cotton with pockets that can be inserted with a disposable near N95 non-woven filter material, Professor Yanagihara said. After use, the cloth masks may be treated with regular laundry soap then laundered and reused.
The first batch of cloth masks will be distributed through the University Health Partners of Hawaiʻi, the faculty practice plan of the UH medical school, with priority given to providers and staff in primary care and emergency care specialties, who provide first contact care for the majority of patients. In addition, JABSOM medical students are assembling plastic face shields that are needed by frontline health care workers.
With public contributions for materials, it is hoped that these masks and shields can be extended for the support of other primary care providers (including those assessing nursing home patients) across the state of Hawaiʻi.
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/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wordpressvC270x80.png00UHPA/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wordpressvC270x80.pngUHPA2020-04-14 20:22:322020-04-16 11:26:50Dr. Markus Wessendorf nominated for sewing masks
