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Carl Bonham
Carl Bonham is executive director of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization.
In addition to research on expectations formation, he is working on models of the state economy and presents this information at the Annual Hawaii Economic Association Conference each April.
Other work in progress includes a specialized model of the tourism sector in Hawaii, and linking a Hawaii state model with models of the U.S. economy and Japan.
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Meda Chesney-Lind
Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, Chesney-Lind has served as Vice President of the American Society of Criminology and president of the Western Society of Criminology. She is an outspoken advocate for girls and women, particularly those who find their way into the criminal justice system. Her work on the problem of sexism in the treatment of girls in the juvenile justice system was partially responsible for the recent national attention devoted to services to girls in that system. More recently, she has worked hard to call attention to the soaring rate of women's imprisonment and the need to vigorously seek alternatives to women's incarceration. She has received numerous national awards for her contributions to the field of criminology.
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David Karl
A microbial biologist and oceanographer in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Karl has focused his research on the ecological role of microorganisms in the sea and has enjoyed many groundbreaking research discoveries along the way. He is director of the university’s Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, and has received numerous national and international honors and awards throughout his 30 years at UH Manoa. In the course of his career, Karl has spent more than three full years at sea, including 23 expeditions to Antarctica.
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Paul Nachtigall
Dr. Paul E. Nachtigall is the founding director of the marine mammal research program of the University of Hawaii’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. He is the former editor , and current member of the editorial board, of the journal Aquatic Mammals for the European Association for Aquatic Mammals and is the past president of the over 2000 member international Society for Marine Mammalogy. He frequently travels with his students and colleagues to gather data around the world. He recently: (1) measured the hearing of a stranded infant Risso’s dolphin in Portugal, (2) caught, measured the hearing, and released white-beaked dolphins off Iceland, (3) measured the hearing of three polar bears in Sweden. He is a member of the graduate faculties of the Zoology and Psychology Departments
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Christine Yano
With Japan and Japanese Americans, as a focus, Yano’s interests lie in the processes by which nation-cultures construct and sustain themselves, in particular in forms of popular culture. She looks at music and other consumer goods with an eye to their interactions within the larger frameworks of gender, class, nationalism, and globalism. Her research on the topic of “cute culture” in Japan, particularly as a consumer item through the business practices and goods of Sanrio, has her exploring issues of gender and power through global consumer culture.
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Tom Kelleher
Associate Professor Tom Kelleher started at the University of Hawaii in 1999 after earning his PhD from the University of Florida. He also served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2004 to 2006.
He has taught courses in introductory public relations, public relations writing, advanced public relations, online communication, communication campaigns, media effects, organizational communication, honors research, and communication theory.
His book, Public Relations Online: Lasting Concepts for Changing Media, was released by SAGE in 2007.
His research interests are online public relations, social media, public relations theory, campaigns, ethics, and teaching and learning with online media.
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Diane Nahl
Dr. Diane Nahl is a Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the Library and Information Science Program. She publishes research on information behavior, affective computing, and information technology literacy, and teaches courses in reference and information services, information literacy instruction, and human-system interaction.
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Diane Nahl
Dr. Diane Nahl is a Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the Library and Information Science Program. She publishes research on information behavior, affective computing, and information technology literacy, and teaches courses in reference and information services, information literacy instruction, and human-system interaction.
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