It may not grab headlines the way Covid has, but obesity is one of the most serious public health problems of the 21st century. More than 600 million adults and 100 million children in 200 countries are considered obese. There are very few safe pharmaceutical interventions, but in a new study...

For her senior Food Science Capstone project, Trisha Nagasawa has baked up an interesting new treat: breadfruit shortbread cookies. The purpose of the study is to see if a tasty and well-liked product can be made utilizing breadfruit flour. Today, 12:00-3:00 p.m. in AgSci 223, you are invited to...

New funding that aims to coordinate the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) with other programs in combatting childhood hunger includes a grant for CTAHR’s Children’s Healthy Living Center of Excellence (CHL). Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, with...

UH Maui College has years of experience in food manufacturing education, and now they will be sharing that knowledge with aspiring farmers. With a new 3-year, $500,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, GoFarm Hawaiʻi will continue its partnership with UH Maui...

All CTAHR students, faculty, and staff are invited to vote! in the FSHN Council Elections Ballot for 2021-2022. The voting will determine next year's board members, and voting is open to all of members of the college. Don’t delay in casting your online ballot, because voting will end...

First, the good news. For the fourth year in a row, extramural funding for CTAHR faculty to conduct important research has increased. In calendar year 2020, the total value of contracts and grants awarded to principal investigators was $21.3 M, which is up from $17.9 M in 2019, $15.8 M in 2018,...

With the recent publication of his latest book, Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism, Andy Reilly of the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences caught the attention of instructors at the Lebanese American University. Andy was invited to provide a guest lecture for the university's...

Congrats³ to Pratibha Nerurkar, who on March 31 received the 2021 Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching at UH Manoa, on April 1 received the 2021 Western Region Award for Excellence in College and University Teaching in Food and Agricultural Sciences, and on April 6 received a...

The Pew Charitable Trusts have announced nine distinguished conservation researchers from around the world to receive a fellowship in marine conservation – and one of them is Kirsten Oleson of the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. From studying the ecological and...

In a deteriorated tropical forest in Costa Rica, Rebecca Cole and Rakan Zawahi took 35 truckloads of coffee pulp, spread it onto a degraded pasture, and waited two years to see what would happen. The results are dramatic: the treated plot is now a small forest, while the control ploy remains...

Rover ants, frit flies, lobate lac scale, Ficus stem and leaf gall wasps, hala scale, coconut rhinoceros beetle,  and weeds – it ainʻt easy to maintain those fairways.

Zhiqiang Cheng of the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences will be joined by...

Pop Quiz: name the native freshwater fish of Hawaiʻi. Answer: ʻoʻopu, or the Hawaiian Goby. On April 16 at 2:00 p.m., you can learn more about o’opu nakea, one of the five endemic, culturally significant, freshwater species of goby that exhibits an amphidromous life history. Tune in for...

“What Are Native Hawaiian Babies Eating? UH Researchers Want to Know” was the title for a segment on Hawaiʻi Public Radio this past Monday, featuring an on-air interview with Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla of the Dept. of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences. Kainoa says there...

Ty Shitanaka and Soch Tork are students in the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and BioEngineering who meet regularly in the laboratory of professor Samir Khanal. Like the rest of UH, they’ve learned to weather Zoom classes and partial in-person labs due to Covid – on top of affording...

Painting on paper and canvas are cool, but what about painting on a rock? It may sound a bit strange at first, but this is a fun activity! On April 18^th, we interns in the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences, Human Development and Family Studies Program, will be painting rocks to...

For his research on Yarrowia lipolytica, a type of yeast commonly found in cheese, Winston Su of the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and BioEngineering has found an unlikely sponsor: the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a unit of the federal Department of Energy. “Biotechnology and...

The ‘coffee berry borer’ and newly discovered ‘coffee leaf rust’ are two of today’s biggest threats to Hawaiʻi’s commercial agriculture industry. Tune into Zoom on April 16-17, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., as CTAHR and the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service...

If you know a seasoned gardener with experience in growing edible crops in containers, please invite them to share their insights to help CTAHR develop gardening recommendations for Hawaiʻi. The Hawaiʻi Edible Crop Container Gardening Survey is open until April 15. Responses can help CTAHR to...

The year was 1950, and a young researcher at the University of Colorado published his first scientific paper, Physaria vitulifera, A Tetraploid Species of Cruciferae (which, incidentally, is still available online). And so began a 70-year span of almost 300 scientific publications...

“I was never so busy until I retired.” If the saying doesn’t sound familiar, then you haven’t met Aurora Saulo, Professor Emerita of the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences. In January, Aurora was awarded the Theresian Achievement Award in Science and Medicine from...

The Academic and Student Affairs Office’s online cooking series continues with a Mediterranean Feast! complete with baklava, Zaʻatar pita, and shakshuka!

Lara Hackney with the Dept. of Human Nutrition, Food & Animal Sciences will lead this culinary excursion. ASAO will also...

GoFarm Hawaiʻi is excited to announce recruitment for a new cohort of new farmers drawn from the Kauaʻi community. This highly successful program needs your kokua in spreading the word! and reaching out to people who might be looking to improve their farming production and agribusiness...

“I am pleased to announce yet another Invasive Pest Mini-Conference via Zoom online on April 22 @ 1:00 p.m.!” says Roshan Manandhar of Kauai Extension. These remarkably popular 1/2-day mini-conferences have plenty of content to offer, especially with the many invasive pests...

Congratulations to Daniel K. Owens, PhD, recipient of a 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award! Among the most prestigious honors in academia, the award cuts across all fields of science and is given to a very limited number of faculty across the country. It is a five-year (not three-year)...