You’ve probably heard about the importance of eating more locally grown foods. What are some ecological implications? Natural Resources and Environmental Management MS student Tanya Torres will discuss her findings during her defense of her thesis, “Quantifying the Environmental Footprint of Doubling Hawai‘i’s Local Food Supply.”

Chynna Chun, a freshman in the Tropical Agriculture & Environment major and treasurer for the Hawai‘i chapter of the Future Farmers of America, recently competed at the 92nd National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Competing with the best-prepared public-speaking competitors in the nation, she triumphed with a bronze medal for her speech on the importance of advocating for Hawai‘i agricultural issues, including food insecurity, unused farmlands, and the lack of young farmers in the state.

Are consumers to blame for the rise in obesity across America? Or has Big Food confused our food choices and made the basic principles of healthy eating harder to follow? Award-winning author and New York University professor emerita Marion Nestle visited the UHM campus on November 7 to offer her research findings on the parallels between processed-food profits, big-budget marketing, and consumer behavior over the last 50 years.

The Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds will be performed on Kaua‘i for the first time in February 2020, and help is needed to recruit teachers on the island to bring their students. All classes in grades 4–12, as well as home-schooled students, are welcome. It's a place-based interdisciplinary program that brings together science, music, art, dance, and education to tell the story of our endangered Hawaiian forest birds.

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.