At the Campus Center Ballroom on Saturday, December 14, CTAHR hosted its Fall Convocation ceremony. Thirty-four graduating students from the College’s undergraduate and graduate programs took part in the celebration.

For the third consecutive year, CTAHR Associate Dean for Research Walter T. Bowen, PhD, has partnered with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program’s Mentoring Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Work to fund more proposals from mentors within the College.

CTAHR was well represented at the Oʻahu District FFA Career Development Event (CDE) Competition held December 14 at Kāhala Elementary School. FFA members competed in public speaking, parliamentary procedure, and knowledge contests.

Professor Andy Reilly and graduate student Jordan Antonio received a Paper of Distinction award at the 2024 conference of the International Textile and Apparel Association. Reilly and Antonio’s paper was a case study of Native Hawaiian fashion designer Micah Kamohoaliʻi and how he utilizes cultural values to guide his designing and manufacturing processes.

As model (and incoming UH student) Makana Gomes sported various types of shirts, Andy Reilly of the Fashion Design and Merchandising program, Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences, educated the audience at the Honolulu Museum of Art on the relation between aloha shirts and personal identity.