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The University of Guam continued its ongoing award streak at the SACNAS Annual Conference with three students and one faculty mentor taking top honors at the nationaly STEM assembly.
Over six-hundred college and university students from all over the country presented their research over the course of the two-day judging period and of them, three UOG students were presented with disguised recognition awards.
Six participants have begun a six-month path toward potential careers in watershed restoration and forestry with the launch of the second cohort of the University of Guam’s Guam Green Growth (G3) GROW Corps. Over the course of the program, they will learn skills ranging from seed collection and nursery propagation to reforestation, firebreak maintenance, and forest data collection.
Every product starts with an idea, but for Junior Achievement (JA) Guam’s young entrepreneurs, that idea begins with a question: What will it cost the island, not just the bottom line?
How do you study an island’s reefs, fisheries, and marine resources without first knowing its story? That was the idea behind a weekend session at the University of Guam, where graduate researchers traded lab talk for lessons in CHamoru language, dance, and traditional seafaring practices.
When Anthony Hana Cruz’s son was diagnosed with autism, it changed the way he saw the world. Now, that love is carrying an entire island on a 16-hour journey with it.
On Saturday, October 10, Guam will see something it has never seen before: individuals and families walking side by side from the island's northernmost tip to its southern shores in support of autism awareness. The inaugural “Walk Different” event, co-organized by Cruz and Off The Spectrum, will take participants from Andersen Air Force Base to Merizo Pier and Cocos Island, beginning at 12:00 AM and ending at 4:00 PM.
Guam's coastal structures face a harsh reality: salt air and seawater corrode the steel bars inside concrete. Most construction materials, including cement and aggregates, must be shipped in from off-island, and the island continues to grapple with how to dispose of solid waste, including glass bottles.