June is an important month for Maui 4-H. For decades, keiki and their families gather for the annual Maui 4-H Youth Livestock Show and Auction. Once part of the Upcountry Fair, the event merged with Maui County Farm Bureau’s ‘Maui AgFest’ but continues to take place in June so...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oʻahu resident David Day bought a papaya tree from a nursery in Waimanalo, and planted it in his yard. Fast forward to last Friday, when his daughter, KHON2 reporter Lauren Day, brought into her TV studio the fruits of his labor, literally. With just a...

In Hawaiʻi, the number of feral chickens is relatively high, and it is not unusual to see chickens on roads and in parking lots. They are descended from the Red Junglefowl, likely the first breed brought by Polynesian settlers, and more recently, European-derived breeds brought to Hawai?i for...

Pigs, dogs, rats, goats, deer, sheep, cattle, cats, mongoose – all were brought to the Islands of Aloha. In fact, “Hawaiʻi is unique among the 50 states in that all terrestrial mammals, other than our native Hawaiian hoary bat (ʻōpeʻapeʻa), are non-native,” says Melissa Price of...

A new report from the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization concludes that the economic value of Ag production has declined “more than the physical production of agricultural goods, because consumer prices have skyrocketed at a higher rate than wholesale agricultural...

If anyone knows about diversified agricultural operations across the state, itʻs Dole Hawaiʻi. And now this mainstay of local farming has a need for an Agricultural Management Trainee to learn to oversee all phases of Dole Hawaiʻi agricultural operations. This includes field maintenance, land...

Last month, approximately 60 volunteers entered the gates of the Oʻahu Urban Garden Center, via staggered entry times. The occasion was UGC Volunteer Orientation Day! Given a stressful year of COVID-19 precautions, our CTAHR Extension agents, faculty, and staff had many activities ready and...

More than 1,250 students across the UHM system graduated May 13-16, including CTAHR students at the undergraduate, graduate, and PhD levels. The UH ITS team captured the whole weekend on video, adding the students' names to the lower third, along with the dissertation titles and sponsor names...

If you think woke is a joke, try this on for size: the pretty red bird known as Jameson’s Firefinch is named for John Sligo Jameson, who once purchased a young girl as “a joke” and drew sketches of the child being stabbed and dismembered. So begins the article, “The racist...

In Hawaiʻi, when you check the weather forecast, you often get a prediction of partly sunny, partly cloudy, and partly rainy – talk about covering all possibilities!

But if you’d like to know exactly what the weather is at Mealani Research Station in Kamuela,...

No, you can’t crack open a cold one here. But if you’re in Miller Hall or nearby, and need a place to just hang out, then check out “The Korner.” Created by student interns of the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences’ Human Development and Family Studies program,...

If you’re a recent grad, not-so-recent grad, or just want to get involved, I’ll let you in on a little secret: The CTAHR Alumni Association and Friends. The recently re-formed group will support CTAHR student programs through fundraisers, volunteer opportunities, and connecting...

It’s not too late to add a course to your Summer II 2021 session load, and what better addition than “Topics in NREM: Terrestrial and Marine Mammal Regulation, Science, and Management” from the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. Class #491/691 is...

From South Dakota to Iowa to Wisconsin to Hawaiʻi and beyond, Nancy Ebersole Johnson enjoyed meeting colleagues with a focus on international nutritional problems. In May, she passed peacefully at age 95. The past chair of the Dept. of Food and Nutrition from 1986 to 1996, Nancy lived in Hawaii...

We’ve all seen it grow with each passing year. And we all know that Hawaiʻi’s houseless crisis isn’t going away anytime soon. But if you care to better understand its root causes – how close some of our friends might be to actually living on the street and how we might...

The hardworking faculty, staff, and volunteers of Oʻahu Urban Garden Center know first-hand the continuous commitment it takes to keep the place clean. But lately, the weeds have been mounting a comeback. So the O’ahu 4-H, a CTAHR program, reached out to the Hawaiʻi Youth Challenge Academy....

Using a computer to create clothing designs and then view them on a virtual mannequin? That’s exactly what students do in Fashion Design and...

During the 2020-2021 school year, CTAHR sought new and innovative ways to engage our students. What launched as a welcome-back-to-fall care package, turned into monthly care packages, followed by monthly cooking shows. With the help of our CTAHR Ambassadors and Scholarship recipients, the...

Dr. Lei Sachiko Yamasaki, DVM, MS, passed away unexpectedly on May 8. Lei was born and raised in Honolulu, graduated from Roosevelt High School, and earned a BA in Zoology (with a Marine Options Program Certificate) at UHM. She completed an MS in Animal Sciences from the Dept. of Human Nutrition,...

The latest half-day conference in this highly popular series is set for June 17, so mark your calendars and don’t skip town. Actually, you could fly off and still access all of the guest speakers, since the Virtual Invasive Pest Mini-Conference will be brought to you via Zoom. “Our...

If you missed the premiere of the 55th annual UHM Fashion Show, it’s not too late to catch the designs and virtual show of our talented students. Tune in this Sunday, May 16, at 5:30 p.m. on KFVE. The show also airs multiple times on ‘Olelo channel 53. Or, you can visit

Expanded restoration of indigenous practices will more than compensate for projected losses of endangered waterbird habitat. That’s the finding of researchers from the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, which they hope will provide useful information in...

Insect ecology, insect taxonomy, pest management, urban entomology, and toxicology just scratch the exoskeleton of topics that grad students might be called upon to answer during the Entomological Society of America’s ‘Entomology Games’ contest. At this year’s...

Consumers across America are beginning to eat at restaurants again. But as they return to their favorite haunts, so has the question about whether the main course was raised on antibiotics. “With the increasing demand for meat from antibiotic-free grown animals and legal restrictions on it...