Alumni News

Earth Day was celebrated by Pres. Joe Biden – and Ashley Mackenzie of the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. He issued EO 14072, which directs the federal government to carry out the First National Nature Assessment. She will co-write a chapter in this historic attempt to take stock of U.S. lands, waters, wildlife, and the benefits provided to our economy, health, climate, environmental justice, and national security.

In her lifetime, the Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori was the only Asian person to be accepted by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode – the French organization that governs haute couture fashion.

Papaya is an economically significant crop in Hawaiʻi and other tropical and subtropical locales. However, various diseases, drought, and heat stress threaten crop productivity. To improve resistance to these threats, an efficient gene-editing system was developed by graduate student, Marc Elias in the laboratory of David Christopher 

Francis Tso-Ping Zee died March 29 in Hilo. Before he retired from USDA PBARC in 2014, he was the Supervisory Horticulturist and Curator of the Tropical Fruit and Nut Germplasm Repository at Waiakea. He received his MS and PhD from the CTAHR’s Horticulture Department in 1979 and 1985, respectively. 

We’re on a mission to spread the word about some incredible job opportunities – right here within our vibrant community at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.