Alumni News

Face mask patterns abound on the Web, but if you’re looking for designs by the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences’ professor Shu-Hwa Lin and the Fashion Design and Merchandising Textile Lab, then look no further.

With anticipated budget cuts on the horizon, CTAHR’s Administrative Services has provided new guidance on what is considered an essential purchase.

Get ready to dress for success, because the results are in for CTAHR’s Design Contest! Dean Nicholas Comerford invited FDM majors and minors to participate in a clothing design competition to recognize the amazing talent in the state’s only B.A. program in fashion design, support budding fashion leaders toward a career in haute couture, and spark some fresh and creative visual ideas for CTAHR’s new line of merchandise.

CTAHR’s Extension agents are helping those in need on the Valley Isle. After harvesting 60 ‘ulu and seven bunches of bananas from an Extension planting on Maui, Rosemary Gutierrez-Coarite of the Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences donated the entire harvest to the Maui Food Bank, even driving the truckload there herself.

Help is here for parents of kids cooped up in the house, thanks to Hawai‘i 4-H’s new Hale (home) Learning resources site. The youth engagement program, which has been active in Hawai‘i for more than a hundred years, is now providing fun, free, hands-on educational activities that can be done at home.