{"id":53969,"date":"2016-12-08T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T23:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53969"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:07:38","slug":"nursing-student-receives-uh-manoa-co-op-student-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/08\/nursing-student-receives-uh-manoa-co-op-student-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing student receives <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr title=\"Career Center Cooperative Education\">Co-op<\/abbr> Student of the Year award"},"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_53982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53982\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/manoa-nursing-henry-melissa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/manoa-nursing-henry-melissa.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/manoa-nursing-henry-melissa-173x260.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nursing student Melissa Henry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Melissa Henry<\/strong>, a nursing major who participated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/careercenter\/students\/internshipscooperative-education\/\">M&#257;noa Career Center Cooperative Education<\/a> (Co-op) opportunity with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiipacifichealth.org\/straub\/\">Straub Medical Center<\/a>, has been named <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <abbr>Co-op<\/abbr> Student of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Henry will receive a keepsake plaque and $500 scholarship and will be recognized at the M&#257;noa Career Center Student Employee of Year event on April 11, 2017.\u00a0As <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <abbr>Co-op<\/abbr> Student of the Year, Henry will represent <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa in the National Cooperative Education Internship Association Student Employee of the year competition to be held in April 2017 in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Henry&#8217;s preceptor and nominator, Tesla Teitge-Mergenthaler, described her as an avid learner who goes above and beyond as a nursing student. Teige-Mergenthaler also shared that Henry will make an exceptional future nurse.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the award<\/h2>\n<p>This annual awards and appreciation event recognizes outstanding student contributions in private industry and government and the unique support of employers who provide avenues for students&#8217; professional growth and career opportunities through a cooperative education experience.\u00a0Cooperative education allows students to acquire essential, practical skills by being exposed to the world of work beyond the boundaries of the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, a committee comprised of a university faculty member, <abbr title=\"Career Center Cooperative Education\">co-op<\/abbr> employer and <abbr>co-op<\/abbr> student alumnus selects one outstanding student employee for his\/her contributions and commitment to the <abbr>Co-op<\/abbr> program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Henry will represent Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa in the National Cooperative Education Internship Association Student Employee of the year competition in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[341,189,839,9],"class_list":["post-53969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-manoa-career-center","tag-nursing","tag-school-of-nursing","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53969","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=53969"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91405,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53969\/revisions\/91405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}