Alumni News

A very sincere congrats to Jari Sugano, Oʻahu County Administrator for Extension, who was honored by the Oʻahu Resource Conservation and Development Council. Jari was the honored speaker at the event “Celebrating Women Who Help Shape Local Agriculture in Hawaiʻi,” where the statewide membership of Oʻahu RC&D’s Hawaiʻi Women Farmers Network recognized her professional excellence, dedication, and leadership; she serves as an inspiration to many throughout Hawai’i's agricultural sector.

Anchorage, Alaska, was the site of the Society of Nematologists’ 61^st Annual Meeting – and Koon-Hui Wang, Brent Sipes, and Zhiqiang Cheng from the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences were happy they brought along their graduate students.

CTAHR’s Food Systems Working Group held its second quarterly forum in mid-September to discuss tackling local food sustainability from a holistic perspective. This forum, “Farm to Table: The CTAHR Connection,” which featured six speakers from the UH system focused on the business marketing aspect of food systems, attracted participants across Hawaiʻi.

If you want keiki to understand the farm-to-plate concept, why not go straight to their stomachs? At schools across the pae 'aina, a new partnership known as the “Hoʻopili ʻAi Campaign – Uniting Keiki & Hawaiʻi Food Crops” is introducing K-5 students to Hawaiʻi-grown foods like kalo (taro), ʻulu (breadfruit), and ʻuala (sweet potato). Each classroom is given a box containing education materials and 25 individual pre-packaged produce for students and families to try at home.

Under the auspices of advisor Andy Reilly, our Fashion Design and Merchandising undergrads paid a visit to Farrington High School to support its students and evaluate their fashion designs. The visit was prompted by an invite from Erin Kamikawa, an instructor at Farrington in charge of the fashion curriculum, who is also a member of the FDM Advisory Board.