{"id":122970,"date":"2020-07-17T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=122970"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T00:17:03","slug":"scientist-wins-teaching-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/17\/scientist-wins-teaching-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist-turned-educator wins graduate teaching award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Christine Ambrosino<\/strong> received a $5,000 teaching award from the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Graduate Student Organization<\/a> (GSO<\/abbr>) as part of its 2020 Merit Based Awards. She is a doctoral student in UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Education (COE<\/abbr>) Department of Curriculum Studies<\/a> and also holds a master\u2019s degree in zoology from UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n

Since 2008, Ambrosino has been with the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a> (HIMB<\/abbr>) where she currently works in the Marine Science Research Learning Center (MSRLC<\/abbr>). She conducts research and develops place-based marine science and research methodology curricula for high school and college students. She has co-taught COE<\/abbr> graduate students on Moku o Loʻe<\/span>, also known as Coconut Island.<\/p>\n

“I was very honored to receive this award, and it is timely encouragement as I wrap up my dissertation work,” Ambrosino said. “Having been trained as a researcher in the natural sciences, my confidence as an educator and education researcher sometimes wavers. This award has added to the support I already receive from my students and colleagues at the MSRLC<\/abbr> and the COE<\/abbr> who inspire and challenge me to develop my identity as both a scientist and an educator.”<\/p>\n

Ambrosino said she has learned the importance of recognizing students as complex beings who bring valuable experiences and knowledge of their own to the classroom. By developing culturally-relevant, experiential curricula, she hopes to better engage and empower underrepresented students in science and spread the message to other science educators and researchers.<\/p>\n

“On behalf of the curriculum studies department, we are so proud of Christine\u2019s accomplishments in teaching and doctoral research with the support of her mentors, Malia Rivera<\/strong> of HIMB<\/abbr> and Margie Maaka<\/strong>,” said Chair Patricia Halagao<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The annual GSO<\/abbr> Merit Based Awards promote outstanding graduate student work at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, recognizing excellence in diversity, mentorship, research, service and outreach and teaching. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christine Ambrosino received a $5,000 teaching award for her outstanding graduate student work at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[95,507,53,660,9,1626],"class_list":["post-122970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-education","tag-graduate-education","tag-hawaii-institute-of-marine-biology","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122970"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122998,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122970\/revisions\/122998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}