📱 Sustainability Through the Lens of Humanities: Wed, May 4 @ 2pm

Learn how sustainability intersects with Tik Tok, education, Pacific Islander cultural lifestyles, Red Hill Water crisis, mental health, foster families, and more with projects from Kealalōkahi Losch’s HUM 295 SI class. This class is an Early College course for Radford High School students who are back for a second SURF presentation!

Spring 2022 Student Undergraduate Research Fair (SURF) Advisor: Kealalōkahi Losch, Ed.D. Online presentations via Google Meet Wednesday, May 4 @ 2pm

🎉Congratulations to Kealalōkahi for mentoring so many awesome topics in this awesome class!

Presentations:

• Teaching through TikTok: Sustainability Education for the Next Generation through Social Media Jazelle Guerrero

• Recycling Rover: The Re-abandonment of Post-COVID Lockdown Dogs Landon Christensen

• Misleading Students: Student-Learning-Styles-Labeling as an Educational Barrier Kawena Hetrick

• The Plastic Prognosis: A Review of the Impacts of Microplastics on the Gastrointestinal Tract Magnolia Conover, Aletha Salarda

• Sink or Sync: Impacts of Sea-level Rise on Pacific Islander Cultural Lifestyles Simeli Iiga, Meki Tuvaifale-Sheck

• Unsustainable Foster Families: Insufficient Funding for Foster Children Kamaria James

• Contaminating the Classroom: Educational Impacts of the Red Hill Water Crisis Kenna Morgan, Kyla Musso

• “We’re depressed, stressed, and care a lot less”: Improving Student Mental Health Education Nilanie Broadus

We have over 80 presentations on Native Hawaiian plants and animals, ocean sustainability, dating apps, natural disasters, and so much more!

We will be posting more detailed session highlights in the KapCC News and on Instagram @kccurep and @kccstem this week. See you there!

Contact: Li-Anne Delavega at ldelaveg@hawaii.edu or Kalei Galarita kgalarit@hawaii.edu