Alumni News

With CTAHR’s 2020 Convocation coming up (and the holidays), your CTAHR Alumni Association and Friends invites you to learn how to make ti leaf lei.

CTAHR alumna Samantha Alvarado will lead this fun and informative webinar on Saturday, December 12^th @ High Noon (12:00 p.m.). To participate:

• Register now
• Pick about 20 Ti leaves, at least 24 hours before the class.*
• Watch the first minute of this video on preparing leaves, 24 hours prior to the class.**

Convocation is a culmination of years of hard work, perseverance, and academic achievement for every graduating student – especially in a pandemic!

While we know a virtual celebration cannot take the place of the traditional in-person event, we want to make the virtual celebration as meaningful as possible.

For almost three decades, the Halawa Xeriscape Garden has upheld a holiday tradition of teaching the community how to turn water-conserving plants into eye-catching and colorful holiday wreaths – and no pandemic is going to stop the magic.

With 340 islands spread over the Pacific, it’s no wonder the residents of Palau heavily depend on the ocean for food. So when this isolated archipelago closed 80% of its ocean to fishing in order to conserve biodiversity and ensure future food security, the concern quickly became, “What are the unintended consequences on local ecosystems and people?"

Happy Holidays from the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences! The TPSS Graduate Student Organization (GSO), together with Assistant Researcher Orville Baldos and his TPSS 364 Horticulture students, have decided they won’t let the pandemic ruin Christmas.