Alumni News

Samir Khanal (MBBE) is co-editor of a new book, Fungal Biorefineries, that covers the uses of fungi in biorefinery technology. It focuses on applications of fungi for the production of products such as organic acids, hydrolytic enzymes, advanced biofuels, polyols, single-cell proteins for animal feed, and secondary metabolites.

TPSS worked with Hamilton Library’s Head of Desktop Network Services and her staff to complete the scanning and uploading to ScholarSpace of all the Horticulture and Agronomy and Soil Sciences dissertations and theses from the college, printed copies of which were originally shelved in TPSS’s library in St John.

If you haven’t signed up as an exhibitor for the Hawaii State Farm Fair on July 14 and 15, there’s still time, and there’s still a need: the Saturday morning (9 a.m. to noon) and Sunday afternoon (1 to 5 p.m. shifts still need to be covered.

As a 2018–2019 Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellow in food and water security, Michael Kantar will promote public engagement and institutional change in issues at the intersection of science and society.

Samir Khanal (MBBE) has recent been awarded a highly competitive $150,000 grant from Western Regional Sun Grant Center focusing on bioconversion of food wastes/agri-residues using black soldier fly (BSF) (Hermetia illucens).