{"id":130122,"date":"2020-11-05T15:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=130122"},"modified":"2020-11-05T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:26:19","slug":"2020-rcuh-outstanding-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/05\/2020-rcuh-outstanding-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii\">RCUH<\/abbr> honors 17 researchers, staff from O\u2018ahu, Hawai\u2018i Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_130120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130120\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/system-rcuh-2020-awards.jpg\" alt=\"r c u h recipients\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/system-rcuh-2020-awards.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/system-rcuh-2020-awards-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/system-rcuh-2020-awards-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2020 <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> Outstanding Employees of the Year recipients<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcuh.com\/\">Research Corporation of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> (<abbr>RCUH<\/abbr>) announced its 2020 <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> Outstanding Employees of the Year Awards on November 2. <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> recognized 17 outstanding employees who made significant and exemplary contributions to their projects during the past fiscal year or years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congratulations to our 2020 <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> outstanding employee award winners. Your commitment and dedication to research, training and development in the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is greatly appreciated,&rdquo; said <strong>Leonard Gouveia<\/strong>, <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> executive director.<\/p>\n<h3>Outstanding Researcher\/Project Manager\/Professional Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First-place: <strong>David Cohen<\/strong>, aquatic invasive species biocontrol specialist, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, College of Natural Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Second-place: <strong>Michael von Platen<\/strong>, <abbr>TCR<\/abbr> systems programmer, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Honorable mentions: <strong>Fritzie Celino-Brady<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources; <strong>Serge Chastel<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Institute for Astronomy; <strong>Stan Fichtman<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>; <strong>Mark Huber<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Institute for Astronomy; <strong>Dawn Namahoe Sidman<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Research Office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Outstanding Project Support Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First-place: <strong>Yoshitake Nabeshima<\/strong>, Subaru Telescope<\/li>\n<li>Second-place: <strong>Hope Ronco<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Honorable mentions: <strong>Mary Jo Riehm<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Research Office; <strong>Sean Tanimoto<\/strong>, Applied Research Laboratory at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Outstanding Team<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First-place: Maunakea Weather Center<\/li>\n<li>Second-place: Applied Research Laboratory at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcuh.com\/about\/awards\/\">Visit the <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> website for a complete list of awardees.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The employees were recognized for their significant and exemplary contributions to their projects.<\/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":[573,308,212,598,35,31,63,911,872,92,698,14,9,947],"class_list":["post-130122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-applied-research-laboratory","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-program-recognition","tag-research-corporation-of-the-university-of-hawaii","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130122","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=130122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130133,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130122\/revisions\/130133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}