{"id":80870,"date":"2018-06-12T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=80870"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:53:23","slug":"uh-hilo-aauw-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/12\/uh-hilo-aauw-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo students receive American Association of University Women scholarships"},"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_80839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80839\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hilo-aauw-scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hilo-aauw-scholarship.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/hilo-aauw-scholarship-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Association of University Women, Hilo Branch scholarship winners, from left, Kaylee DeCambra, Kathryn Strong, Kaimalie Zirker, Amanda Alvarado and Liesl Nayeli. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo-hi.aauw.net\/\">American Association of University Women, Hilo Branch<\/a>, has selected five <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> students for 2018-2019 scholarships. <strong>Kathryn Strong<\/strong> was awarded $2,000, and <strong>Amanda Alvarado<\/strong>, <strong>Kaylee DeCambra<\/strong>, <strong>Liesl Nayeli<\/strong> and <strong>Kaimalie Zirker<\/strong> each received $1,000 awards.<\/p>\n<p>Strong has spent 13 years working in the environmental health field. Her current goal is a master\u2019s degree in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo tropical conservation biology and environmental science program.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado is seeking to complete a master of arts in counseling psychology at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo. Her research interests include post traumatic stress disorder, trauma, adolescent mental health, sexual trauma and forensic interviewing.<\/p>\n<p>DeCambra is double majoring in sociology, and gender and women\u2019s studies, as well as pursuing certificates in educational studies and Spanish. After graduating, she plans on entering the counseling psychology graduate program at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo.<\/p>\n<p>Nayeli is working to complete a bachelor of arts in psychology from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo. She is doing a practicum in psychology and works with adults with chronic mental illness using cognitive behavioral therapy and art as medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Zirker is a mother of a second grade son and is pursuing a bachelor of science in nursing at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo. She hopes to combine her love of flying with her love for saving lives, by working with air ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p>For more, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2018\/06\/07\/five-students-at-uh-hilo-receive-scholarships-from-aauw\/\"><em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Strong was awarded a $2,000 scholarship, and Amanda Alvarado, Kaylee DeCambra, Liesl Nayeli and Kaimalie Zirker each received $1,000 scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[572,660,14,907],"class_list":["post-80870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80870","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=80870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93507,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80870\/revisions\/93507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}