The University of Guam held a Women and Gender Political Candidate Forum at the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Lecture Hall on Oct. 26. The forum discussed issues of gender and diversity on Guam. Senator Judith Won Pat and senatorial candidates Regine Biscoe Lee, Louise Borja Muna, and Amanda Francel Blas, and Dededo Mayor …
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Xiao Wei, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of biology, and the only botanist at the University of Guam. Before Wei began teaching at UOG, she was a graduate student at the University of Texas as Austin. At UT, she conducted research and taught other grad students while completing her dissertation. “My life was pretty much …
Students and faculty representing the STEM disciplines attended the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) 2016 in Long Beach California. The conference ran from Oct. 13 through 15. The SACNAS conference is the nation’s largest multicultural and multidisciplinary diversity in Science Technology Engineering and Math conferences. This year’s attendees included …
The UOG athletic department hosted the university’s first-ever Triton Night since the resurgence of Triton Athletics on October 18 at the Calvo Field House. The night’s main event was a game that pitted UOG men’s basketball team against the MVP. There were numerous activities that kept fans busy, which included a free t-shirt giveaway to …
The University of Guam School of Business and Public Administration’s Master of Public Administration Program was able to send off all prospective graduates to Saipan for the 2016 Business and Finance Conference. Guided by the program chair Dr. John J. Rivera, the MPA program proudly represented the university at the 2016 Business and Finance Conference, …
The Chain Of Knowledge, “Micronesian Tutoring”, is a relatively new tutoring program that is ran by students here at the University of Guam. The program dedicated to providing tutoring opportunities for Micronesian students attending high school and middle school. “Our goal is to provide success and opportunities to Micronesian youth,” says Jasmine Basset, the program’s …
By the efforts of Jonathan Triplett, the new Director of Residence Halls, along with his staff, more work has been done on improving the University of Guam Residence Halls in only 7 months than in the past 5 years. “When I first came, I could see that we needed a lot of changes,” says Triplett, …
The University of Guam is known for a lot of great things, but for the past decade and a half, sports hasn’t been really a part of the school’s track record. Besides only a few humble attempts, there really has not been any real effort to bring back sports to the university until now. The …
By Cody Dowless Triton’s Call Staff The University of Guam will soon see the addition of a new engineering annex as well as a renovated and expanded student services center. The new additions are part of the Vision 2025 plan, which according to the UOG website, aims to prepare the campus to accommodate 5,000 campus …
A good number of students learned some valuable information while attending a highly educational seminar in the University of Guam’s School of Education building o. The seminar, which covered theoretical and practical challenges of online education for life-long learners, was part of the Around the Latte Stone Seminar Series, a special collaborative series by the …