Alumni News

The O‘ahu Urban Garden Center will be promoting pollinator-protection awareness and strategies at its Second Saturday at the Garden event on June 9 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The program is coordinated by members of the Bee Hui at the UGC, who provide community education and outreach about bees’ and other pollinators’ essential services.

Graduate student Blaire Langston (second from right) was among at the Hawai‘i Green Business Program honorees for helping organize UH’s Fifth Annual Sustainability Summit as a green event.

Congratulations to TPSS students Judy Cacal and Giselle Bryant, who were honored by the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS)! Judy is the winner of both an Outstanding Horticulture Student Award and an ASHS Collegiate Scholars Award, and Giselle is a winner of an ASHS Collegiate Scholars Award.

Scientist Melissa Price collaborated with artists and the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra to create six animated movements that educate youth about Hawai‘i’s endangered native bird species and the importance of conservation.

Scott Nikaido and Ethel Villalobos (PEPS) just co-authored an article in the Journal of Apicultural Research on the “Detection of Africanized Bees in the Dominican Republic” as part of collaborative work between UH and officials from the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.