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THE ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN
Hoon Eng Khoo was educated at Smith College, St. Mary’s Medical School at the University of London, and the University of Dundee. Dr. Khoo was Vice Dean and most recently served as Deputy Head of the Medical Education Unit, Associate Director of the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Khoo is very involved in women’s rights advocacy and is a founding member of AWAM: All-Women’s Action Society Malaysia, and was an activist and leader in AWARE: Association of Women for Action and Research, a women’s advocacy group in Singapore.
- Michelle Zjhra, Dean of Natural Sciences

Michelle Zjhra was educated at Reed College, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Zjhra was Director of the Herbarium, Faculty Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Teaching, and Associate Professor of Biology at Georgia Southern University. Most recently Dr. Zjhra was a Fulbright Scholar in Viet Nam working with universities throughout the country to integrate into the curriculum a student-focused pedagogy and implement a credit-based system. Dr. Zjhra’s botanical and educational research have been consistently funded, including current NSF funding. Her research has been published in Science and other international journals. She has repeatedly been nominated for Excellence in Teaching awards for her active-learning curriculum development and teaching.
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Jill Davis Kate Meehan
Augustina Delaney Selena Pang
Laura Beth Giles Angela Saunders
Nicole Gruel Cindy Sobieski
Katherine Houseman Jennifer Ann Thompson