{"id":111545,"date":"2020-02-21T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=111545"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:01:19","slug":"kapiolani-ern-conference-awardees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/21\/kapiolani-ern-conference-awardees\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u02bbolani CC<\/abbr> research students recognized at national STEM<\/abbr> conference"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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From left: Alden Fernandez, Brent Shigano, Kiyomi Sanders, Sheri Lei Marzan, Jennifer Chinen, Keanu Rochette Yu-Tsuen and advisors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Six Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College<\/a> students participated in the Emerging Researchers National (ERN<\/abbr>) Conference in STEM<\/abbr><\/a> held in Washington D.C.<\/abbr>, February 7–8, and three received awards for their research projects.<\/p>\n

Undergraduate research experience (URE<\/abbr>) students Jennifer Chinen<\/strong>, Sheri Lei Marzan<\/strong>, Brent Shigano<\/strong>, Kiyomi Sanders<\/strong>, Alden Fernandez<\/strong> and Keanu Rochette Yu-Tsuen<\/strong> competed with four-year university students from across the country and presented their research in engineering, physics, ecology and environmental and earth sciences.<\/p>\n

The conference is aimed at college and university undergraduate and graduate students who participate in programs funded by the NSF HRD<\/abbr> unit, including underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Research award winners<\/h2>\n

Keanu Rochette Yu-Tsuen<\/strong> was awarded for, “Sensitive of Porites Compressa Corals to Native Hawaiian Plant Scaevola Taccada Extract.” He received third place in the Ecology, Environmental and Earth Sciences category.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Chinen<\/strong> was awarded for, “Creating a Noise-Cancelling System to Reduce Whale Beaching Events Caused by Ship Noise.” She received first place in the Engineering category.<\/p>\n

Kiyomi Sanders<\/strong> received first place in the Physics category for “Verifying the Eccentricity of the Moon\u2019s Orbit using Lagrangian.”<\/p>\n

Mahalo to faculty advisors and mentors John Berestecky<\/strong>, Hervé Collin<\/strong>, Aaron Hanai<\/strong> and Assistant Professor Mike Ross<\/strong>. The accomplishments of the students at the national level, the quality and rigor of their research and the professionalism of their presentations, continue to bring pride and recognition to Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>, the URE<\/abbr> program, the 糖心视频<\/abbr> System and Hawaiʻi<\/span>.<\/p>\n

—By Li-Anne Delavega<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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