Need some more (soil) fertility in your life? Sunder S.S. Rajan will be giving a TPSS seminar by entitled “In Search of an Ideal Phosphate- and Sulphate-Containing Fertilizer” in St. John 106 on Monday, July 23, at 1:30 p.m.

Congratulations to all CTAHR faculty who were successful in the recent Maui County FY19 grant competition! The projects funded included education in reproductive technologies, establishing a trial garden for ornamentals, investigating dispensing pesticides from drones, continuing breadfruit research, and more.

Susan Crow’s (NREM) project “Putting the Farmer in the Driver’s Seat: Integrative Web Tool for Improved Soil Health and Carbon Assessment, Monitoring, and Planning” just won one of three grants from NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative for soil and nitrogen data tools.

Hua Zan’s paper on the impact of a spouse’s health shock on one's own activity levels won the Richard L.D. Morse Applied Consumer Economics Award at the national conference of American Council on Consumer Interests.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Elizabeth Winnicki presented her work on the genetic diversity of ‘uala (sweet potato) at the American Society of Plant Biologists’ 2018 Plant Biology Conference in Montreal.