Even before COVID-19, an alarming number of UH Mānoa students were regularly suffering from food insecurity and downright hunger. Joannie Dobbs, then-faculty of CTAHR’s Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, brought this problem to the attention of the Associated Students of UH, which partnered up with other campus groups.

Students had the opportunity to get some free food and make an investment in their future at CTAHR’s 2020 job fair, held in the Campus Center ballroom on Friday, February 28. Companies focusing on the subject matter in every CTAHR department from, agriculture and conservation to fashion and family science, were in attendance to meet, greet, and recruit future employees. Many of their employees or founders were CTAHR grads themselves.

All are invited to the CTAHR Fall 2019 Graduation Convocation, an intimate ceremony for the college’s Fall 2019 graduates, family, friends, and faculty! It's on Date: Thursday, December 12 (last day of classes) in the Campus Center Ballroom. Check-in begins at 5:00 p.m., the program runs 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., and the reception goes from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.

CTAHR recently took its 16th annual Meaningful Experience Trip to the island of Kaua‘i, when 18 student ambassadors and three ASAO staff headed out for their jam-packed trip on Saturday morning and returned late Sunday evening. The intrepid group toured and helped out at farms, met Extension agents, did trail and beach cleanup, and volunteered at the Humane Society! This is the sort of trip memories are made of! 

This Halloween, the Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences held its annual pumpkin-carving contest, to fearful and artistic effect! From the front of a VW bus to a surprisingly faithful depiction of the classic painting The Scream and an assortment of grotesque faces, PEPS teams and individuals showed just what can be done with a pumpkin.