Alumni News

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) is advertising for an Extension specialist in wildfire science and management and climate change adaptation for Hawai‘i and the American-affiliated Pacific Islands. The successful candidate will develop an Extension program focused on wildfires and climate change with a broad range of constituents, including other Extension and research faculty, agency professionals, land-management agencies, and the general public. 

Andy Reilly (Fashion Design & Merchandising) just published Crossing Gender Boundaries, which he co-edited with Ben Barry. This collection presents some of the most recent scholarship on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three groups—looking at how dress creates, disrupts, and transcends gender—the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion. 

The Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture, in cooperation with NOAA, last month hosted a pre-meeting for the 13th Meeting of the Aquaculture Panel on Aquaculture Coordination between the US and South Korea. The US chair of the panel is Ron Johnson, from NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, while South Korea’s chair is Je-Cheon Jun, from the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.

The main purpose of this pre-meeting, “The Roadmap Development Workshop of the Korea-U.S. Joint Coordination Panel for Aquaculture Cooperation,” was to determine the potential priorities for the group’s next joint-research projects. Participants agreed to look into the areas of smart technology, genetics breeding, and new fish species. Their current priorities are disease prevention and feed development.

Want to keep informed about the latest developments in the spread and control of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that is becoming an increasing concern throughout the world? Check out UH Mānoa’s informational page, which has travel information, health tips, breaking news, and links to other trustworthy sources.

CTAHR Master Gardeners are honoring a special tree and the scholar it commemorates at the Alice Ball Day celebration on Friday, February 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The site of the celebration on Friday will be the chaulmoogra tree by Bachman Hall, which a group of Master Gardeners have adopted and care for.