Responding to popular demand, the Kona Extension Office offered two hands-on coffee grafting workshops for coffee producers last week. Alyssa Cho, Stuart T. Nakamoto, and Andrea Kawabata provided participants with an overview on the coffee root-knot nematode project and the important points of how and why to graft coffee plants.

TPSS worked with Hamilton Library’s Head of Desktop Network Services and her staff to complete the scanning and uploading to ScholarSpace of all the Horticulture and Agronomy and Soil Sciences dissertations and theses from the college, printed copies of which were originally shelved in TPSS’s library in St John.

As a 2018–2019 Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellow in food and water security, Michael Kantar will promote public engagement and institutional change in issues at the intersection of science and society.

Last week, CTAHR’s Kaua‘i team and the Kaua‘i County Farm Bureau jointly hosted the 23rd Annual Agriculture & Environmental Awareness Day at the Kaua‘i Agricultural Research Center, with multiple exhibits and lectures for the 5th-grade students from local schools who attended.

Aleta Corpuz, who just graduated with an MS in Horticulture, has been awarded the Bruce Briggs Memorial Scholarship for 2018 by the International Plant Propagators Society (IPPS). Aleta, who worked as a graduate assistant to Orville Baldos, is interested in using native plants as ornamentals and starting a native plant nursery.