Representatives from the Hokkaido legislative assembly and prefectural government recently visited the Magoon Research Station, where they spoke with faculty, staff, and students about sustainable ornamental plant production, anthurium and dendrobium culture, the Student Organic Farm Training program, and more.

Samir Khanal (MBBE) published a paper in Environmental Science Technology on the removal mechanisms of the most common fluoroquinolone antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, in wastewater treatment systems. Antibiotic compounds and their metabolites have frequently been detected in the environment, causing serious public concerns.

Show off your program or project at the Hawaii State Farm Fair on July 14 and 15! Exhibitors are encouraged to offer family-oriented games or activities or samples. Please RSVP to Cheryl at ernst@hawaii.edu by Thursday, June 14, with your preferred shift(s) and your topic.

Congratulations to ANSC graduate student Nirvay Sah, who received a PSA Graduate Student Travel Award in the amount of $1,000 to attend the Poultry Science Association (PSA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Congratulations to the members of the CTAHR ‘ohana who have achieved promotion and tenure: Zhiqiang Cheng (PEPS), Susan Crow (NREM), J.B. Friday (NREM), Mark Thorne (HNFAS), and Samir Khanal (MBBE). CTAHR is lucky to have all of them and glad that their expertise and hard work are being acknowledged!