“Our college is guided by a deep commitment to integrate agriculture, cultural heritage, community outreach, and sustainability, with insights to the future,” says Thomas Lim of CTAHR’s Office of Planning and Management Systems. “And this omnibus philosophy is what informed our vision to create a CTAHR-owned space – one where public teaching moments are not just theoretical but tangible and interactive.”

The prevalence of obesity among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders is statistically high and continues to rise, putting members of these communities at greater and greater risk for developing diabetes and cardiometabolic diseases.

It’s been a long-term objective of CTAHR to establish an aquaculture facility on the UH Mānoa campus. That objective was realized in 2024. With funding from the UHM Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research, CTAHR, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Andre Seale of the Dept. of Human Nutrition, Food, and Animal Sciences has partnered with the UH Sea Grant College Program (Hawai‘i Sea Grant) to create the new “Tuahine Aquaculture Research and Education Center.”

For the second time in three years, CTAHR students in the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences won 1st prize in Cobb Bowl Jeopardy at the annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists, held August 4-9 in Park City, UT. Competing as “Aloha Nema,” our super-capable PEPS students 

Kent Kobayashi has been in the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences for more than 40 years. Throughout his career, he has attended the annual conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), which this year will be held at Hilton Hawaiian Village, September 23-27.