Shooting the flume, picking tea, feeding cows and seeing octopi up close were just a few of the adventures as CTAHR students made friends and practiced team building on the 2017 Meaningful Experience tour to Kona and environs on Hawai‘i Island. 

Perennial plants offer ecological advantages over annual crops, so plant biologist Michael Kantar works to develop commercially viable perennial alternatives to current grain and oilseed crops, which must be replanted every year.

Videos on the life cycle of bees and apian role in the rise of flowering plants captured national entomology awards for a CTAHR-led team.

Bred under the direction of the Mealani Research Station staff, CTAHR bulls rank among the top 5% of Angus in the country and are free of a common genetic disorder.

Entomologist Helen Spafford says a recent German study reporting a dramatic decline in insect populations sounds an alarm and “we need to wake up.”