ASAO News

Our Academic Student Affairs Office (ASAO) is delighted to announce that our Spring 2022 CTAHR Convocation will be held in person! We are excited to celebrate with our graduates and recent alumni at Kennedy Theater on May 7, 2022, at 5:00 pm HST. 

The convocation will include a welcome show with photographs of graduates’ memories at CTAHR, the Dean’s message, student marshals’ speeches, and more! This will be a wonderful time to honor our students and their positive impact on the college.

March's Grab and Go was filled with goods from the Coalition to Stop Campus Hunger, SAPFB, Aloha Harvest, exotic fruits from the Urban Garden Center, and eggplants from GoFarm Hawaii.  Join us for our final Grab and Go for the year on Thursday, April 28th from 12:30-2:30 PM at the Gilmore Hall Courtyard.  Students, please register to reserve your spot!

March's Cooking Show celebrated National Nutrition Month with healthy recipes of Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers, Smashed Chickpea Salad, and Peanut Butter Banana Bonbons.  Take a tour of Latin dishes in our final cooking show for the year on Friday, April 29th at 5 PM on Zoom.  We'll be preparing Pao de Queijo (Brazillian Cheese Bread), Mushroom Tortilla Soup, and Dulce de Leche Crepes.  Limited cooking kits are available CTAHR students.  CTAHR Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Friends are welcome to register!

The Hawaiʻi Foodbank has kicked off its Annual State Employees Food Drive and will be running through May 13, 2022.  Last year, CTAHR collected $2,623.34 in monetary donations and 7,413 pounds of food!  Our goal for 2022 is to collect $3,000 in monetary donations and 7,500 pounds of food!

To get our CTAHR Departments in the mood of giving, we have turned the Foodbank Drive into a CTAHR competition where all CTAHR departments (located on Oahu) will be splitting into 12 teams (see table below). At the end of the event, we will award two team winners 1) Highest Monetary Donations and 2) Highest Pounds of Food Donations.  Winners will receive a CTAHR swag basket filled with yummy treats and Beer Lab Beer!  If you already have monthly deductions set up with the Hawaii FoodBank, please let us know so that we can ask that the monetary donations get credited to CTAHR for March 14 to May 9, 2022).  If you would like to donate online, please email us a screenshot of your donation so that we can credit your team.

Dr. David Christopher has been with CTAHR for over 27 years, serving as a chair and professor in the Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering department.  His passion for teaching and ability to relate complex concepts in a way that makes the subject of molecular biosciences easier to understand has inspired confidence in his students to go further in their academic careers and achieve more than they once thought possible.  Dr. Christopher regularly ties in current events into his teachings, driving home the relevance and importance of the world of biotechnology, thus successfully engaging students to want to learn more.  The spark that few can ignite in their students is a skill that Dr. Christopher possesses, which is only part of what makes him deserving of this year's CTAHR Dean Excellence in Teaching Award.  His impact as an educator and mentor were echoed through an outstanding 15 letters of recommendation from current and former students that cite the main cornerstone of their success being Dr. David Christopher.  

This is the third year that the CTAHR ASAO Office has hosted the Grow with Us Mentoring Program.  This past summer, our 20 mentors, including CTAHR students and alumni, worked with ASAO and to train its mentors to work with high school mentees from Waipahu-, Kalani-, Mililani-, Waiakea-, Roosevelt-, Campbell-, Nanakuli High School, and the PEUO Program.  In October, we started our virtual mentoring program with an orientation and monthly mentoring sessions