Alumni News

Alumna Margaret Baker (MBBE) was recently awarded the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Education and Literacy Initiative (AFRI ELI) postdoctoral research fellowship from NIFA. Her research explores the function of protein N-glycosylation in cereal crops, using the model grass purple false brome (Brachypodium distachyon). 

Junior Extension agent Kylie Wong Tavares has been awarded a Roy A. Goff Memorial Endowment Fund scholarship of $750 in support of her coursework on “Quantifying Food Risk” and “Foodborne Disease Epidemiology,” funding that will allow her to better serve her clientele.
 

Extension agent Glen Fukumoto (HNFAS) recently returned from the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, where he was doing work on water quality and piggery systems as part of his MultiState Extension project with the college’s Pacific Island land-grant partners. 

UH Manoa maintained top rankings in the U.S. and international communities according to the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. ARWU selected about 1,000 of the best research universities to be considered in its ranking process from more than 20,000 universities in the world. 
 

Andre Seale (HNFAS) co-authored a recent study on fish endocrinology, “Leptin Stimulates Cellular Glycolysis Through a STAT3-Dependent Mechanism in Tilapia,” published in Frontiers of Endocrinology.