Through collaboration with community partners, CTAHR Cooperative Extension was able to reach 14 Thai farmers on Kaua‘i and 10 Thai farmers on O‘ahu last week by providing bilingual workshops. Farmers noted that both workshops were very informative and that they are interested in attending additional workshops in the future.

If you haven’t yet signed up for the upcoming conference “Future Focus: The Hawai'i Innovation Initiative's Forum on Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security, Cybersecurity & More,” now’s the time to do it: online registration ends on Friday, October 5. The conference will be held October 10 and 11, at the Hawai'i Convention Center.

Ola HAWAI‘I is calling for proposals for collaborative research projects conducted by faculty of the UH System to determine causes of and interventions for communities in Hawai‘i that suffer disproportionately from genetic, environmental, and socioeconomic disparities in health and healthcare access, particularly Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and Filipinos.

The National Pork Board is soliciting research proposals dealing with “Sustainability – Air.” This request seeks proposals to conduct an evaluation of the representativeness of air emissions-monitoring data collected from swine operations under the National Air Emissions Monitoring Study relative to emissions from the predominate swine-production systems in use today.

Shu Hwa Lin (FDM) invited Ph.D. candidate Ching I “Genny” Lai to CTAHR as a visiting scholar to learn 3D body scanning in the department. A designer of smart clothing, Genny is planning to research and design electromagnetic protection garments for children with 3D body scanning technology under Shu Hwa’s guidance.