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After spending her entire career working with and helping program leads and researchers as the Director for Contracts and Grants at the University of Guam (UOG) Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Janet Dirige took a leap into the ocean known as EPSCoR and has been swimming since. Following her retirement from UOG in the summer of
Previous Next Two University of Guam alumni who participated in the first ever GECCO Summer Math Research Experience (SMRE) have been accepted into grad school! The GECCO Summer Math Research Experience was held from June 7 to July 23, 2021. Participants addressed issues such as overfishing parrotfish, coral bleaching, and coral
At the University of Guam EPSCoR Science and Technology (S/T) Committee meeting earlier this month, members looked at addressing its priority challenge areas by tapping into resources that recently opened to support the recovery of communities during the pandemic. The S/T committee’s priority challenge areas include IT and cybersecurity, biosciences and technology transfer, medical and healthcare, and sustainability (food-waste-energy nexus). Robert Underwood, committee vice-chair
Britney Sison, an undergraduate biology student at the University of Guam, discovered more than five potentially new species of diatoms as a research fellow in the NSF INCLUDES: SEAS Islands Alliance program at the university. This potentially new diatom species discovered by University of Guam student Britney Sison will be
To ensure the long-term accessibility of the diatom collection, UOG Professor Emeritus of Biology Christopher Lobban acquired archival paper, special adhesives, and custom templates to catalog 3,000 existing slides and label new ones. UOG Professor Emeritus of Biology Christopher Lobban started cataloging diatoms found in the Marianas in 1988 as
(Back Row, From left) Jaeyong Choi, UOG Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Leslie Aquino, Associate Professor of Mathematics; Ethan Vargas; Loreto Paulino Jr.; Henry Song; Aaron Bumagat; Regina Mae Dominguez; Bastian Bentlage, UOG Associate Professor of Bioinformatics; Jaron Bautista; Sho Hammond, GECCO Education and Workforce Development Project Associate; Hyunju Oh, Associate