Alumni News

CTAHR is now seeking nominations for two awards: the Ka Pouhana (Mentor) Award, which recognizes a CTAHR faculty member for their outstanding support of student learning and development through co-curricular activities, and the Ka Hana Po‘okela CTAHR Service Award, which recognizes an active member of a student organization who has made outstanding contributions to that organization or to the community.

CTAHR’s new student lounge is a bright and comfortable place where students can study, relax, hang out with other students, and help themselves to free food in the pantry—even a fresh salad, compliments of its hydroponic stations! The students themselves care for these indoor vegetable and herb gardens and get to harvest the produce.

There’s a new associate dean for Research in town! Welcome to Walter Bowen, who will begin on February 19. His office will be in Gilmore 202B. Walter Bowen earned his MS and PhD in Agronomy at Cornell University. He has more than 30 years of experience in international agricultural research and development.

Welcome to a new role to Amjad Ahmad, who joins O‘ahu Cooperative Extension as an assistant Extension agent in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture. Amjad, a CTAHR PhD alumnus, previously worked for the college as a junior researcher in TPSS. Amjad’s educational background is the area of agronomy, field crops, legume crops production, organic amendments, and nitrogen applications.

Welcome to a new role to Jennifer Hawkins, who has started her new position within CTAHR as the Edible Crops agent on Moloka‘i! Jennifer used to be the Moloka‘i Hawaiian Home Lands Agriculture junior Extension agent, where she inaugurated a successful program teaching farmers to keep bees as pollinators.