Congratulations to Emily Teng (TPSS), winner of this year’s Ka Hana Po‘okela award for student service, and Jenee Odani (HNFAS), recipient of the Ka Pouhana mentor award! Come cheer Emily, Jenee, and the other illustrious CTAHR awardees at this year’s Awards Banquet on May 4! 

PhD student Priscilla Seabourn was awarded a $1,000 scholarship to attend a special summer Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course in Idaho. She studies the microbiome of mosquitoes in Hawai‘i.

CTAHR recently held its annual Blood Drive in the Campus Center Ballroom, garnering 54 blood donations, which can save 158 lives! Big mahalos go to all the donors, of blood and of treats and incentives for the donors!

Pre-vet students joined Professors Birendra Mishra and Halina Zaleski for a hands-on training in a workshop on artificial insemination.

Genome sequencing of the perennial sunflower may provide clues to how plants adapt to changing climates. Researcher Michael Kantar explains in recent article in the online journal Quartz