Want to be a Master Gardener volunteer or know someone who does? The East Hawai‘i Master Gardeners are now accepting applications for the 2019 Master Gardener Volunteer Training Program. The course begins January 23 and runs through April, from 9 a.m. to noon every Wednesday morning at the Komohana Research Center.

FDM has a lot to be thankful about this Thanksgiving after their recent awards at the International Textile & Apparel Association’s annual meeting! Honors were given to Shu-Hwa and Ju-Young, Kaimipono Kajiyama, the students of FDM 338 and 411, and visiting student Genny Lai. Senior undergrad Kaycee Yoshiika also won the Blanche Payne Award.

MS student Alexandra Paer (MBBE) was recently honored with a $1000 award from the C-MAIKI #mahimicrobe2018 graduate competition for her innovative research proposal to set up an experimental system to test the relationship between GSK3b inhibition, corn silk ingestion, and the microbiome in Alzheimer’s-like mouse-model systems.

CTAHR celebrated 90 years of Cooperative Extension and 100 years of 4-H in Hawai'i on November 7. Attendees included current Extension faculty and staff, retirees, and stakeholders. US and local lawmakers, Dean Nicholas Comerford, interim associate dean for Extension Kelvin Sewake, and state 4-H  leader Jeff Goodwin spoke on the past, present, and future of Extension and 4-H in Hawai’i.

FDM alumna and award-winning author Janet Mock is a writer, cultural commentator, and advocate for transgender women’s rights. Janet has been called one of “the most influential people on the Internet” and one of “12 new faces of black leadership” by TIME and was featured in Variety magazine’s 2017 “Power of Women.”