Sun Kyu Kim, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Division of Natural Sciences

Dr. Sun Kyu Kim comes to UOG from South Korea bringing expertise in engineering and various areas of science, in particular chemistry. He most recently worked as dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Technologies and a professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Ulsan.

He joins UOG’s chemistry faculty in the Division of Natural Sciences, where he will be teaching Introduction to Chemistry and General Chemistry. Kim has published 70 papers in academic journals and four books and operates a YouTube channel on education and self-development.

• Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering (University of Utah)
• M.S., Metallurgical Engineering (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
• B.Eng., Metallurgical Engineering (Yonsei University, South Korea)

 

 

 

Dareon Rios, M.S.

Extension Agent II
Cooperative Extension & Outreach

Dareon Rios joins UOG Cooperative Extension & Outreach as an extension agent with the 4-H Youth Development Program. She brings a background in STEM — having studied genetics for her master’s thesis at UOG and having worked as program manager and research associate for the TANICA breast cancer prevention project under the Pacific Island Partnership for Cancer Health Equity.

Within the 4-H program, she will be exploring the needs of Guam’s diverse youth populations post-COVID and in a heavily tech-influenced environment and developing approaches for positive youth development.

• M.S., Biology, Emphasis: Genetics (University of Guam)
• B.S., Human Biology (University of California San Diego)

 

 

 

 

Jen Shaffer, Ph.D.

Extension Agent IV of Community Development
Cooperative Extension & Outreach

Dr. Jen Shaffer joins UOG Cooperative Extension & Outreach as an extension agent IV with the Community Development Program. She is on sabbatical with the University of Maryland College Park, where she works as an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Environmental Science & Technology.

Shaffer studies how people navigate a continuously changing world and how they share and use their local, traditional, and indigenous environmental knowledge to sustain their livelihoods and households. She will be working on community development programming and extension services, including a study on farmers’ adoption of sustainable agriculture production and consumer receptiveness to paying for locally grown food.

• Post-Doc, Geography (Pennsylvania State University)
• Ph.D., Anthropology, Emphasis: Ecological/Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
• M.S., Environmental Studies (University of Oregon)
• B.S., Biology, Cornell University (N.Y.)

 

Richard Singh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Plant Production
Western Pacific Tropical Research Center

Dr. Richard Singh comes to UOG from Ghent University in Belgium, where he was a post-doctoral researcher. With expertise in plant physiology, plant defense, pomology, and sustainable plant production, Singh will be researching in-vitro multiplication of fruit trees (new cultivars) and evaluating the cultivar’s response to abiotic/biotic stress. He additionally specializes in nematode research and will be testing entomopathogenic nematodes as a control mechanism for invasive pests, such as the rhinoceros beetle, and documenting invasive and non-invasive nematodes in the Micronesian region and the use of endophytic bacteria as a control.

• Ph.D., Bioscience Engineering (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Erasmus Mundus: European Master of Science, Nematology (Wageningen University, Netherlands)

 

 

 

 

Jasmine K.A. Stuckey, B.S.

Assistant Instructor of Chemistry
Division of Natural Sciences

Jasmine Stuckey joins the Division of Natural Sciences as an assistant instructor of chemistry. She has been working under the College of Natural & Applied Sciences since she earned her bachelor’s in chemistry here in 2020.

She has been a chemistry lab teaching assistant, an adjunct instructor in chemistry labs, and a laboratory technician for chemistry and biology labs. Stuckey will be teaching Intro to Organic Chemistry (CH-101) lecture and lab, General Chemistry (CH-102) lab, and Basic Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry (CH-311).