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University of Guam students who attended the 2025 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science National Diversity in STEM Conference are recognized during a certificate presentation in January at the UOG College of Natural and Applied Sciences conference room. Pictured with the students are UOG Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant Director Austin Shelton, Ph.D.; College of Natural and Applied Sciences Dean and Director Rachael Leon Guerrero, Ph.D.; and Cheryl Sangueza, Ph.D., co-principal investigator of the NSF INCLUDES SEAS and NSF Navigating Home grants and head of student experience for Guam NSF EPSCoR. Sen. Vincent A.V. Borja, chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Education, presented the certificates.

UOG students recognized by the Guam Legislature for excellence at SACNAS Conference

Louella Losinio February 5, 2026

The 17 University of Guam students who attended the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference received formal recognition from the Guam Legislature for representing the island at the national event.

Guam EPSCoR’s Lobban receives award from Japanese diatom society

In 2024, Guam NSF EPSCoR senior researcher Christopher Lobban, Ph.D., received an award from the Japanese Society of Diatomology for his paper “Disymmetria reticulata, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mediophyceae: Thalassiosirales), a new genus in Lauderiaceae emend., and transfer of Lauderia excentrica.” Lobban, a UOG professor emeritus of biology, is the first non-Japanese member of the organization to receive an award.

Students board the Nautilus vessel before Marianas Trench expedition

Students from the University of Guam’s (UOG) National Science Foundation Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES), Navigating Home and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) programs recently embarked on an extraordinary journey of scientific discovery, touring the state-of-the-art research vessel, Nautilus Live. This unique opportunity provided future island scientists with an invaluable firsthand look into cutting-edge ocean exploration and research.

UOG welcomes researchers for coral restoration collaboration

In April 2025, the University of Guam welcomed visiting researchers as part of an ongoing collaboration on the development of a new research instrument that can be used to assess the bleaching risk of different types of coral.

Kallen presents research findings on coral-eating sea snails

University of Guam NSF EPSCoR Graduate Research Assistant Lauren Kallen defended her Master’s thesis—a research project that represents the first study of its kind on Guam, focusing on understanding the population dynamics of Drupella fragum, a sea snail that feeds on coral tissue and can be found on shallow reef flats around the island.

UOG EPSCoR GECCO Biorepository partners with Smithsonian Institute for DNA sequencing

The University of Guam NSF EPSCoR GECCO Biorepository has partnered with the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., for the DNA sequencing of marine organisms.

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UOG students recognized by the Guam Legislature for excellence at SACNAS Conference

Guam EPSCoR’s Lobban receives award from Japanese diatom society

Students board the Nautilus vessel before Marianas Trench expedition

UOG welcomes researchers for coral restoration collaboration

Kallen presents research findings on coral-eating sea snails

UOG EPSCoR GECCO Biorepository partners with Smithsonian Institute for DNA sequencing

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