Alumni News

With a game-changing grant from the federal Dept. of Agriculture, CTAHR researchers now have significant resources to assist Hawaiʻi farmers, ranchers, and foresters in implementing sustainable, climate-smart practices and establishing stronger markets that live beyond the life of the grant for locally produced, healthy food and forest products. Led by Susan Crow of the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, the full-time project team of a diverse coalition of stakeholders will pursue:

Picture this: billions of bacteria from thousands of bacterial species, interacting with fungi hyphae that, laid end-to-end, would stretch for kilometers – all in a single teaspoon of soil. These interactions might be at the microscopic level, but with billions of them occurring 24/7, a big question is their effect on nutrients, such as carbon and nitrogen, in the soil. Do they keep these molecules sequestered underground or do they release it into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change? And in locations of drought or reduced rainfall, do these interactions behave the same way?

Count our Biological Engineering as among those programs with “a solid educational foundation” whose graduates “are capable of leading the way in innovation, emerging technologies, and in anticipating the welfare and safety needs of the public,” according to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

Size matters in commercial fish production. Species such as tilapia are known to exhibit sexual dimorphism, or sex-specific differences in body size, with males outgrowing females. As can be expected, tilapia producers have long employed a variety of approaches to favor all-male production.

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Hawaiʻi Nutrition Center (HNC) website! HNC is a partnership between the University of Hawaiʻi - College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources (CTAHR), Cooperative Extension, Hawaiʻi Foods, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education (SNAP-Ed), and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).