Alumni News

Registration is now open for the AgPro professional-development training on October 23 and 24 on Maui. The two-day event, with the theme of “Extending Our Reach: Technology Use in Cooperative Extension,” will offer Extension agents and specialists the latest updates relating to the use of technology in agriculture, livestock, and Extension education.

Organic farming specialist Ted Radovich (TPSS) and Waimanalo Research Station’s Native Hawaiian cultural and health practitioner Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, along with public health professor Jane Chung-Do, have been chosen as fellows in the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Wish you lived back in the days when elegant cruise ships like the Lurline or the Mastonia plied the waters around the Islands? Get a glimpse of the glamour and sophistication of that time period at the Cruise Line exhibition, curated by Shu Hwa Lin’s FDM 460 students. Featuring 16 items selected from the Costume Museum, the display will be up in Miller 112 through October 18.

This year’s Taste of the Hawaiian Range, with its expanded emphasis on all things ag in Hawai‘i, was a huge success. CTAHR is not only one of the sponsors of the Taste; the college’s Extension agents and specialists also provided helpful classroom presentations on several aspects of local agriculture and environmental sustainability.

Through collaboration with community partners, CTAHR Cooperative Extension was able to reach 14 Thai farmers on Kaua‘i and 10 Thai farmers on O‘ahu last week by providing bilingual workshops. Farmers noted that both workshops were very informative and that they are interested in attending additional workshops in the future.