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In memoriam: Loren Kroenke, ‘iron man of UH expeditionary marine research’

Loren Kroenke, emeritus faculty researcher in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, died on May 17 at the age of 84.

Andres Albano, Jr. passed away on March 28, 2023.

The globally regarded aquaculture economics educator and researcher died on February 20, 2023.

Eleanor Jane Sterling, director of the UH Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, died on February 11.

McMackin compiled a 29-25 head coaching record with UH and led the Rainbow Warriors to a pair of Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl appearances in 2008 and 2010.

Irvine served the UH Mānoa College of Education from 2007 until her death on January 27, 2023.

Pottenger jumpstarted science education research for the College of Education.

Leahey, who served as the UH Athletics announcer for more than 40 years, passed away on January 30, 2023.

Nationally renowned education scholar, teacher and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor Ronald Harvey Heck died on January 11.

Darolyn Lendio Heim was an “ardent advocate for a more just society.”