While no one can deny that saving endangered species and their habitat is a noble cause, the field of Conservation Biology has been publicly criticized as racist, due to the exclusion of Indigenous people from their lands and waters during the establishment of protected areas, such as national...

Cap and gown? Check. Tassel and $$$ lei? Check. Handwoven stole? Only if you’re a CTAHR student! Since 2018, the Stole Society Club has lovingly crafted graduation stoles for their fellow CTAHR students, who get to proudly display the eye-catching embroidered vestments over their gowns and...

Merriman’s Kauaʻi, Living Foods Hawaiʻi, and Kauaʻi Food Hub are the guest speakers for a Market Opportunity Workshop on Monday, January 24, starting at 5:30 p.m. That’s THIS EVENING. Hosted by GoFarm Hawaiʻi, the workshop will help participants brush up on their outreach methods,...

After a hiatus due to the ongoing you-know-what, the terrific GENE-ius Day Program is back up and running for the Spring 2022 semester! The first lab was held last Saturday for students in grades 1-12. Prior to the lab, their parents picked up activity boxes that were specially prepared to...

Please join the Master Gardeners, Volunteers, and Urban Garden Center (UGC) as we bid a fond aloha to Master Gardener / Urban Horticulture Extension Agent, Kalani Matsumura. Kalani served as a Junior Extension Agent with Oʻahu County, Cooperative Extension, for the past five...

Does kale grow differently on Mars? What about radishes and tomatoes? These and other interesting questions were put forth at the 2021 Fall Undergraduate Showcase of Research and Creative Projects, held online December 10. Nine students representing four departments in CTAHR participated in...

Hawaiʻi 4-H Military Partnership is excited to announce its “4-H Wounded Warrior Camp: Adventure in Paradise” will once again be offered this summer. The week of fun in the sun, recreation and respite is specifically tailored for the dependent keiki of wounded, injured, ill or fallen...

“Pilina Mauli Ola – Connections that Offer Resilience and Hope” is the theme for the upcoming 2022 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference. The event won’t occur until summertime, but don’t delay in drafting your abstract proposal because the deadline to submit is February...

For first time since December 2019, Maui and Moloka‘i staff and faculty were able to gather together, this time at the Seascape Restaurant in Mā‘alaea. The occasion was the CTAHR Maui County Annual All Staff & Faculty meeting, as well as to celebrate the 2020 retirement of their...

The next cohort for the GoFarm Hawaiʻi programs will run from February to September in Hilo, beginning with its introductory AgCurious class slated for the tomorrow. The event will introduce beginner farmers to the training program, who will hear from local GoFarm Hawaiʻi grads about...

Speakers from UH and Mainland universities will headline the next event in this popular series of half-day conferences hosted by Kauaʻi Extension. “The first couple of presentations will talk about the new discoveries of parasitic wasps and others on the most recent...

Fast, cheap, and easy family meals were the goal of a free online cooking series with Extension agents Marielle Hampton and Hallie Cristobal from CTAHR’s Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences. Each session of the “Grinds on a Dime'' program demonstrated three simple,...

You are invited to attend “Research Update on New Taro Varieties: Mini-Conference” tomorrow (Tuesday Jan. 11 starting at noon). In this two-hour event, speakers will cover new taro varieties produced by conventional cross-pollination of taro flowers. The most promising ones were...

Had an extraordinarily challenging year? Bah! Humbug! You better not pout, cause ‘tis the season to be merry and bright, believe in the magic, and let it snow on Mauna Kea. This holiday season, the students of CTAHR bring you thanks for everything they’ve had in 2021, and wish that we...

UHM students hail from varying backgrounds, experiences, academic pathways, and childhood aspirations. What they have in common is a desire to find their purpose and sense of responsibility beyond themselves. And in the process, they are creating, inventing, and changing the way they see and...

Under a blessing of light rain and mist, the staff of U.S. Representative Kaialiʻi Kahele paid a visit to the Waimānalo Research Station on December 3.

The freshman member of Congress was represented by Dave Chun and Hanale Lee Loy, who toured the grounds along with CTAHR Dean Nick...

Three candidates will be interviewing this week for Junior Extension Agent, a position that includes managing the Oʻahu Master Gardeners and other volunteer programs at the Urban Garden Center in Pearl City. Please join the selection committee for these “Vision of the UH Master...

The 2021 Dean’s Award for Outstanding APT goes to Wayne Fujino in the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences Department. Wayne is the fiscal support specialist for FCS and, as anyone who has interacted with him in the course of his job can attest, he is a master at navigating the fiscal and...

If you’re an Ag producer and feeling stressed, please consider taking a new survey from the Hawaiʻi Seeds of Wellbeing (SOW) program. Your input will help contribute to a greater understanding of Hawai’i agricultural producers and their wellbeing needs. The survey takes less than 15...

If you missed last week’s pre-order for beautiful, exquisite, one-of-a-kind poinsettias from the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, TODAY (and TOMORROW) is your lucky day. So brighten up your holidays and support our budding horticulturist students of TPSS 364 (Horticulture: Theory...

For this past Thanksgiving, student interns Leah Ramos and Kalani Akau and their advisor, Sothy Eng, took the initiative to collect fruits from families' backyards and put them together in baskets, which they donated to Mental Health Kōkua, a local organization that serves adults striving for...

From among CTAHR staff, faculty, and donors to this year’s UH Aloha United Way campaign, Kellie Taguchi of the Academic and Student Affairs Office is the lucky winner of an awesome box set of CTAHR gear from the Office of Communication Services!

This includes:

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Food insecurity was a reality for many UH students long before Covid. And just because you donʻt see it, doesnʻt mean it hasnʻt gotten worse during the pandemic. But thanks to the super-popular FoodStack run by the Academic and Student Affairs Office, our super-appreciative undergrad and grad...

Next Friday at 6:00 p.m., settle back, zoom in, and celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our CTAHR Fall 2021 Graduating Class! To honor them, the CTAHR Academic and Student Affairs Office will host a Virtual Convocation ceremony. Each and every one of us in the...