Preparations for the 2019 Student Research Symposium are going great! This year’s SRS will be on April 15 from 8:00 to 1:30 and a total of 20 undergraduate and 44 graduate students, from all the different academic programs, will compete for top prizes. What’s needed now is judges! If you have not yet volunteered to judge, please do!

How does your community stack up in terms of quality of life? At the first Center on the Family Brown Bag Talk this semester, Ivette Rodriguez Stern (COF) will be discuss her work on measurements of quality of life and well-being in O‘ahu in her presentation “Community Profiles: Using Social Indicator Data to Inform Program Development.”

Into wearable tech? The FDM program is hosting a seminar presentation by visiting scholar Genny Lai entitled “3D Body Scan Apply on Intelligent Medical Garments with Smart-Cloth.” Genny (Ching-I) Lai (left) is a PhD student in the Department of Design at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, but she is visiting FDM to work under professor Shu Hwa Lin (right).

Savannah Katulski, a Kaua‘i junior Extension agent, has been awarded a $750 scholarship by the Roy A. Goff Memorial Endowment Fund to support her participation in the Beef Improvement Federation Symposium and Convention in South Dakota. Savannah will use this opportunity to bring research information, new tools and resources back to Hawai‘i to help improve beef carcass quality and genetics for local production systems.

Come to the Annual Brewbaker Lecture on Genetics & Plant Breeding on Friday, December 14. Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences Center for Population Biology and the Genome Center, will speak on “Genome Size and Adaptation in Plants” in St. John 106 at 1:30 p.m.