Extension agent Glen Fukumoto (HNFAS) recently returned from the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, where he was doing work on water quality and piggery systems as part of his MultiState Extension project with the college’s Pacific Island land-grant partners. 

UH Manoa maintained top rankings in the U.S. and international communities according to the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. ARWU selected about 1,000 of the best research universities to be considered in its ranking process from more than 20,000 universities in the world. 
 

Andre Seale (HNFAS) co-authored a recent study on fish endocrinology, “Leptin Stimulates Cellular Glycolysis Through a STAT3-Dependent Mechanism in Tilapia,” published in Frontiers of Endocrinology. 

Samir Khanal (MBBE) and co-authors, including his grad students Chayanon Sawatdeenarunat, K.C. Surendra, and Devin Takara, published an article in the highly rated journal Bioresource Technology that has attained the distinction of being one of the journal’s most frequently cited papers in the last three years! 
 

Assistant researcher Alyssa Cho and assistant Extension agent Eli Isele (both TPSS) welcomed a little boy, Solomon Joseph Isele, on August 27 at 1:36 p.m. Solomon weighed a healthy 8 pounds and 5 ounces and was 20 inches long. Both parents and child are thriving! And with role models like these, maybe little Solomon will become interested in tropical plant sciences as well!