Alumni News

This is a friendly reminder that CTAHR undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students who are graduating in the Spring 2018 semester OR the Summer 2018 session need to RSVP for the CTAHR Convocation, which is on May 2 at 6:00 p.m. (check-in at 5:45p) at Kennedy Theatre.

MBBE faculty candidate Joonil Seog will be presenting teaching and research seminars, so come and give feedback! On Monday, April 23, from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m., he will give a teaching seminar in St. John 011, and on Tuesday, April 24, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., he will give a research seminar in Ag. Sci 219.

Extension forester and winner of CTAHR’s 2018 Award for Excellence in Extension J.B. Friday (NREM) is quoted in a UH News story announcing that the two species of fungus that are causing Rapid ‘Ohi‘a Death, or ROD, have been described and named in a recently published paper.

Twenty-four 4-H students in Kaua‘i County participated in a food animal quality assurance training which focused on how to be good stewards of livestock raised as market projects for the county fair, under the guidance of Kaua‘i’s Livestock Extension agent Savannah Katulski.

In the wake of the two new cases of rat lungworm disease confirmed in the state, O‘ahu Extension agent Josh Silva was interviewed on KHON for tips on how to deter and kill the slugs and snails that spread the disease, such as using copper tape or just picking them up by hand—using gloves and tongs, of course!