Graduate Assistant Russell Galanti spent the summer at the foot of Tanzania’s Mount Meru as a Trellis Fund fellow, working to improve child malnutrition through increased vegetable production with the use of sustainable agriculture.

UH Animal Science researchers are part of a transgenic study that successfully altered pigs to produce microbial enzymes in their saliva that could make swine digestion more efficient and reduce environmental impacts of swine operations.

Community psychology scholar Bobbie Yee was named a Fellow by the American Psychological Association’s Society for Community Research and Action for her work on the reciprocal relationships between individuals and the social system.

Brent Sipes was named a Fellow of the Society of Nematologists for excellence in research and Extension and service to the society—an elite honor bestowed upon less than 1 percent of members in any given year.

In a one-two pathogen punch, Food Science MS students Cherisse Chun and Bog Eum (Grace) Lee won the top two honors in the Food Microbiology Division Student Competition at the 2018 Institute of Food Technologists meeting at Chicago.

HNFAS grad student Nirvay Sah's work on egg fomulation in hen oviducts won a best research and presentation award and a travel grant to receive it at the 2018 Poultry Science Association in Texas.

CTAHR faculty and Master Gardeners helped Jefferson Elementary students with Project Lemon Tree, which established CO₂-reducing trees, an arbor, and student gardens on a campus site vandalized in 2016.