{"id":127371,"date":"2020-09-18T14:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=127371"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:57:04","slug":"kopera-frye-arts-and-sciences-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/18\/kopera-frye-arts-and-sciences-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo appoints new dean of College of Arts and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin<\/strong> announced the appointment of Karen Kopera-Frye<\/strong> as the new permanent dean of the College of Arts and Sciences following the UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents meeting held virtually on September 17. Kopera-Frye will replace Interim Dean Michael Bitter<\/strong>, effective December 28.<\/p>\n

“I am delighted to welcome Karen Kopera-Frye to the UH<\/abbr> Hilo team!” said Irwin. “As an experienced professional with interests in campus-community partnerships, she will make great contributions to our university and provide renewed energy to the arts, humanities and social sciences.”<\/p>\n

Kopera-Frye is currently a professor in public health sciences at New Mexico State University, a position she has held since fall 2016. For more than 18 years, she has served in a variety of academic leadership positions, including tenured professor, internship and assessment coordinator, numerous director roles and more.<\/p>\n

Kopera-Frye has an extensive list of refereed publications, newsletter articles, presentations and published abstracts from 1985 through 2019 with more in progress. She is skilled in community-based participatory research, grant writing and in obtaining external fiscal resources for programs serving those who are rural and\/or economically disadvantaged, especially among Indigenous groups.<\/p>\n

She has received awards from the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education for outstanding research and teaching. Just this year, Kopera-Frye earned the Friedsam Mentoring Award for her mentoring of faculty and students.<\/p>\n

Read more about Kopera-Frye at UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karen Kopera-Frye will replace Interim Dean Michael Bitter, effective December 28.<\/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":[729,318,14,907,1626],"class_list":["post-127371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-administration-recognition","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","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\/127371","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=127371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127383,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127371\/revisions\/127383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}