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Faculty Directory

                         

                   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 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.

                                   ACCESS ACADEMY

                          Anna Ellis                         Mahmuda Koli   

                      Carly Brunswick                       Amy Lam

                          Jill Davis                           Kate Meehan

                   Augustina Delaney                    Selena Pang

                    Laura Beth Giles                   Angela Saunders    

                        Nicole Gruel                       Cindy Sobieski  

                  Katherine Houseman          Jennifer Ann Thompson