Hawai‘i 4-H is challenging all 12- to 18-year-olds in Hawai‘i to participate in a county-to-statewide cooking competition! Contestants will prepare their favorite dish in a 5- to 7-minute video highlighting a local commodity. They should demonstrate how to create a healthful recipe...

Got an essential delivery or trip and require a vehicle from the motor pool? Make sure you can get it when you need it!

In line with Governor Ige’s “stay at home” directive, the UH Mānoa Fleet Services has reduced its hours and staffing. Office hours are now Monday...

Did you ever want to grow your own food? Indoors and without soil? You can…with micro-hydroponics! Micro-hydroponics allows you to grow miniature vegetable plants hydroponically (without soil) in your house, apartment, garage, or lanai. Read on for more information in this guest post...

For his research into Raman spectroscopy as a potential early avenue for diagnosing and identifying cancers based on their molecular “fingerprint,” MBBE graduate student Robert Oda was previously awarded a Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship. This coming Monday, April 6, at 11:00 a.m.,...

CTAHR is thrilled to announce it will still be holding its convocation—virtually!—on Friday, May 15. The pre-ceremony slide show will start at 5 p.m., with convocation starting at 5:30 p.m. More details will be forthcoming. Please check the CTAHR convocation website and look for email...

The Small Business Administration is offering a variety of support options for small farmers to help them weather the COVID-19 outbreak. Check them out and forward them to our college’s stakeholders! If you spot one that’s applicable, move fast, because funds are limited.

This Friday will be a bonanza for anyone teaching or learning online and anyone interested in engaging in it in the future…in other words, just about everyone in CTAHR! Join in on a virtual coffee hour to discuss your experiences and then learn from the master at distance ed specialist...

“Let's help keep them up and running!” is Jessie Radovich’s rallying cry in CTAHR’s Alumni Connection newsletter. The alumni connection specialist has gathered together information about a number of small businesses and farms, owned and operated by alumni and...

Faculty in the College of Education (COE) are collaborating with Lunalilo Home Residential Care and Pūnana Leo o Mānoa preschool to help gather much-needed food and supplies for kūpuna, or elders. They are asking members of the college and the larger community to collect various items that the...

If you haven’t checked out the COVID-19 Resources for Hawai‘i page at the CTAHR website, now’s the time to do it! You’ll find lots there that you can use yourself and even more that you can share with your stakeholders, from Food Safety and Sourcing to...

With everyone who can work from home doing so, there’s been a major drop in usage of UH Mānoa campus facilities. Effective Monday, March 30, significant changes affecting access to, and operations of, all UHM upper-campus buildings will be in place. This will reduce the workforce reporting...

For years, a dedicated group of volunteers called the Fruit Hui has maintained the research orchard at CTAHR’s Urban Garden Center in Pearl City. Harvesting over 200 pounds of fresh tropical fruit a week, the volunteers donate all excess fruit to the Hawaii Foodbank. The group of certified...

Zoom in this Wednesday, April 1, at 3:30 p.m., to find out about efforts to eradicate the invasive weed tree miconia with Herbicide Ballistic Technology. In this latest installment in the Natural Resources & Environmental Management seminar series, NREM grad student David Lewis will...

Cheng-Sheng Lee, executive director of the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture, recently emphasized, “All current ‘stay-at-home’ and ‘shelter-in-place’ orders across the country include agriculture/aquaculture as one of the top essential functions to keep...

Dean Nick Comerford offered the good, the bad, and the neutral in terms of recent COVID-19 news affecting CTAHR, from faculty and student success in the first week of online intruction to the recently announced hiring freeze to the need for appropriate documentation.

If you need to bring home your office computer or other equipment (monitor, keyboard, mouse, or scanner) in order to work effectively at home, you can! Get approval from your department/unit chair, fill out and submit a Google form, and sign the completed PFMO form, and then you’re allowed...

CTAHR’s new Computer Lab is available to students beginning March 27. Located in the Agricultural Science Building, Room 215, it will be open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Each station allows a safe 6-foot distance from the next user. The computer lab will provide a printer...

There are several methods to make sure you’re getting the calls that come to your office phone, even from home, such as call forwarding, "Reach Me" voicemail message, and Voicemail-to-Email, which sends you an email containing an audio file of your voicemail messages. They're...

UHM Provost Michael Bruno and Interim Vice Chancellor French have issued a directive that if units still haven’t transitioned to working at home to the extent that they possibly can, “this needs to happen now.” They used strong wording: “This is not a...

Healthcare workers are America’s frontline fighters in the war against COVD-19—but their supplies are getting desperately low. You can join CTAHR’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences in helping to make washable, reusable masks that disposable N95 filters can be inserted...

Desperate times call for imaginative measures. Instead of making rum and ginger beer, students in CTAHR’s Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering (MBBE) department are using the knowledge theyʻve gained in their Fermentation Biochemistry class to distill hand sanitizer.