Alumni News

Hua Zan’s paper on the impact of a spouse’s health shock on one's own activity levels won the Richard L.D. Morse Applied Consumer Economics Award at the national conference of American Council on Consumer Interests.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Elizabeth Winnicki presented her work on the genetic diversity of ‘uala (sweet potato) at the American Society of Plant Biologists’ 2018 Plant Biology Conference in Montreal.

Alan Martin—the first student pursuing a culinology degree through a 2+2 Kapi‘olani Community College+CTAHR food science program—is already putting his education to work as a baker at the Kahala Hotel and Resort.

Melissa Price (NREM, left) was one of the scientists who participated in the live broadcast of Hawai‘i Public Radio’s Science Friday filmed at the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu, where she discussed efforts to engage school children with science and conservation efforts, including her recent Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds.

Scott Nikaido and Ethel Villalobos (both PEPS) were featured in a Ka Leo article on the class on beekeeping that they teach, Beekeeping in the Tropics: Introduction to Honeybee Health and Management. It is offered through the UH Manoa Outreach College, though Scott hopes to offer classes for credit at UH in the future.