Ted Radovich (TPSS, pictured) was one of the presenters, along with Rachel Novotny and Marie Fialkowski Revilla (both HNFAS), at the Symposium on Re-envisioning and Regenerating Agriculture Education through P-20 Partnerships sponsored by the P20 Agriculture Education Workgroup.

If you didn’t get a chance to hear Dr. Jonathan Latham’s presentation “Biotechnology, Agrichemicals, and the Value of Life,” don’t worry: there’s a video of the presentation he did in Kaua‘i. The presentation will also be shown on ‘Olelo.

Welcome to new FCS faculty Sothy Eng and Rheta Kuwahara! Sothy will be teaching Family Resiliency and Community Development courses, while helping to develop food systems for resilient families and communities in Hawai‘i, Cambodia, and across the Pacific. Rheta will provide instruction in the early childhood and childhood curriculum.

The new Bee House at Maui County Cooperative Extension’s  Research and Education Demonstration Center provides an observational hive to augment youth and community educational projects on beekeeping and the importance of bees to Island agriculture.

Graduate Assistant Russell Galanti spent the summer at the foot of Tanzania’s Mount Meru as a Trellis Fund fellow, working to improve child malnutrition through increased vegetable production with the use of sustainable agriculture.