As students pile into the classroom to find a seat, they look around for the professor. Most just zone out, but in one corner at 4 feet, 8 inches, is Naiad Wong, waiting for the class to begin. Among her bags is a Juicy Couture purse, a box full of her lessons and a bag of candy and other goodies. 


With her stiletto heels and hip business outfit, she has a big smile on her face, eager for her students to start learning. 


As a freshman in college, who hasn’t thought about being a doctor or a lawyer? Lance Uyeda had that very same thought; however, he found out quickly that blood was not his thing. 


In his biology lab, he had heard that the students needed to remove the head of a dead rat and get blood samples from the inner organs. He decided this was not going to work for him — just no way. 


“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Astronaut Neil Armstrong, First man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong’s historic words rang loud and clear once more in the minds of the scientific community as the Centaur rocket of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Mission made its intended impact on a crater near the south pole of the Moon.

Imagine hurtling through space, floating weightlessly as you speed into the dark abyss hundreds of miles above Earth.


That’s NASA astronaut Dr. Yvonne Cagle’s reality, which she shared at WCC Oct. 10 as part of Aerospace Week.


Two years ago WCC graduate Elijah Frost traveled to China as a Freeman scholar. 


But on Oct. 7, Elijah Frost returned to campus with a different mission. He was one of the featured speakers on “The Economics of Climate Change,” along with UH professor Denise Konan.