Kenny Higa

For building the critical foundations of a complex mentoring ecosystem that fulfills different employee needs around mentorship while also modeling the value of team science and cross-Lab collaboration over a 3-year period.

In recognition of the significant effort made to salvage the use of a newly acquired, significant piece of instrumentation with minimal support from the vendor that saved a research program in one of ETA's identified Key Initiatives.

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Kenny saw a large amount of smoke coming out of a cigarette disposal container in the Building 70 parking lot. Kenny got a fire extinguisher and extinguished the smoldering fire. Kenny's quick action and fire extinguisher training prevented a potential fire.