Over 60 volunteers from CTAHR and the local community came together on December 10 to plant kupuna kalo back into the ‘āina at the Waimānalo Research Station (WRS). This workday supported ongoing efforts to support Dean Grewal’s new CARES initiative to build stronger relationships between CTAHR and the Waimānalo community.

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.

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.”

Congrats to Kyhl Austin, grad student in the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, who took home Best Student Talk (and a big cash prize!) in the graduate student competition at the North American Meeting of the Lepidopterist’s Society, held at Cornell U. last month.