Congrats to Mark Thorne on a Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts! His National Connections Teams for Forest & Rangeland Resources team was recognized by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture for developing the web-based conference series, “Strengthening RREA...

If you’re not familiar with CTAHR’s Environment and Bioenergy Research Group, just ask the faculty and students of Can Tho University in Vietnam. Led by Samir Khanal of the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, the group will soon travel to the Mekong Delta in a new...

Stop what you’re doing, open your calendar, and schedule a visit to the 3^rd floor of Gilmore Hall next Halloween 2023, because the jack-o-lanterns sculpted by CTAHR students will be nothing short of...

On December 2, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Michael Muszynski and his Genome Engineering to Sustain Crop Improvement team will be in the UHM Campus Center Courtyard to to showcase the latest research and tools to study maize (corn). 

Imagine a club where youths meet weekly, participate in hands-on activities that spark creativity and innovation, and learn business components such as customer service and marketing. Throw in a food safety course from the state Dept. of Health and ways to incorporate Hawaiian values,...

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Intertidal limpets are a prized delicacy in the Hawaiian islands, but they’re tough to find on O'ahu. To help rebuild the population, grad students Angelica Valdez and Mitch Marabella in the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering are attempting to spawn and...

Jinan Banna is passionate about shifting the focus of our healthcare system to prevention rather than the treatment of health conditions. On this topic, she presented a poster at the Hawaiʻi Agriculture Conference, “Mapping community assets to establish a local coordinated system of care to...

To our great sadness, Dr. Arnold Hara passed away on October 20. Dr. Hara, born in 1950, attended Hilo High School and received a BS and MS in Entomology from the University of Hawaiʻi, and his PhD from the University of California at Davis under the direction of Dr. Harry Kaya.

The longfin yellowtails, or Almaco Jack, and locally known as kampachi, are among the most valuable finfish groups for offshore aquaculture development. Yet, they are notoriously difficult to rear and harvest on a large commercial scale. At the same time, despite the shrimp...

How can CTAHR stoke interest in our students and other residents toward a career in Ag? One strategy is Hawaiʻi-One-Ag, a plan to better connect and articulate the many opportunities in agriculture and environmental management. Another is to improve GoFarm...

By the time it was discovered in Hawaiʻi in 2016, this invasive pest had already damaged 2,000 acres of rangeland. A scant eight generations later, the Twolined Spittlebug (TLSB) had expanded its range to more than 176,000 acres. In highly infested areas where nymph density exceeded...

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Students in the Dept. of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciencesʻ Animal Science program are generally positioned toward a career working with, well, animals. But to encourage our students to think about biomedical research and (the many) options for careers out there, we paid an...

The “walking plant encyclopedia,” a.k.a. Richard Criley of the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences (emeritus), was the featured guest on Hawaiʻi Public Radio’s The Conversation recently. With host Lilian Tsang, who met Richard for a walk-through at Waimānalo...

Hear ye! Hear ye! The CTAHR Alumni Association & Friends is hosting a Plant Sale THIS Sunday, Novmeber 6, 9:00 a.m. to high noon (12:00 p.m.) at Magoon Research Station the back of lovely Manoa Valley. In collaboration with the Botanical Society of America, Hawai'i Chapter, the plant...

Congrats to Cara Yoshimi, a senior undergrad in the Fashion Design and Merchandising Program in the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences, whose latest creation was accepted by the International Textiles & Apparel Association. Cara, also the CTAHR Stole Society President, designed a...

A very sincere congrats to Jari Sugano, Oʻahu County Administrator for Extension, who was honored by the Oʻahu Resource Conservation and Development Council. Jari was the honored speaker at the event “Celebrating Women Who Help Shape Local Agriculture in Hawaiʻi,” where the statewide...

Anchorage, Alaska, was the site of the Society of Nematologists’ 61^st Annual Meeting – and Koon-Hui Wang, Brent Sipes, and Zhiqiang Cheng from the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences were happy they brought along their graduate students.

CTAHR’s Food Systems Working Group held its second quarterly forum in mid-September to discuss tackling local food sustainability from a holistic perspective. This forum, “Farm to Table: The CTAHR Connection,” which featured six speakers from the UH system focused on the...

If you want keiki to understand the farm-to-plate concept, why not go straight to their stomachs? At schools across the pae 'aina, a new partnership known as the “Hoʻopili ʻAi Campaign – Uniting Keiki & Hawaiʻi Food Crops” is introducing K-5 students to Hawaiʻi-grown...

Under the auspices of advisor Andy Reilly, our Fashion Design and Merchandising undergrads paid a visit to Farrington High School to support its students and evaluate their fashion designs. The visit was prompted by an invite from Erin Kamikawa, an instructor at Farrington in charge of the...

On Sunday, September 25th, CTAHR Alumni & Students gathered at Mānoa Chocolate in Kailua for a fun and educational afternoon, enjoying all things chocolate!  Co-founder Dylan Butterbaugh walked participants through the chocolate-making process, while tasting...

This past summer, Cheng-Sheng Lee, Executive Director of the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture, had the opportunity to see the progression of the Nenue project in Kona. With increasing unification in projects, he and Ocean Era President, Neil Sims, were able to discuss the...