Alumni News

A $1 million gift from American AgCredit and CoBank will go directly to helping GoFarm Hawaiʻi graduates grow their agricultural businesses. The highly successful CTAHR program has graduated 480 participants in less than a decade. It provides business technical assistance, educational opportunities, and resources to remove barriers to farming and agribusinesses.

Adolescent eating is an important area of study, as adolescence is a time of transition to greater independence that is often accompanied with more convenience foods. But in the study, Relationship between Family Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds, Parenting Practices and Styles, and Adolescent Eating Behaviors, a multi-state team of researchers have collaborated to do just that by investigating the relationships among racial/ethnic backgrounds, parenting practices and styles, and eating behaviors in adolescents.

Dr. Samir Ali El Swaify was a retired Emeritus Professor of Soil Science in the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soils in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He devoted his life to research and teaching both graduate and undergraduate students.

Charlton Kūpaʻa Hee, Destiny Apilado, and Aaron Wehrman – incoming grad students in the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management – were selected to receive Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation fellowships to develop the next generation of natural resource management leaders from and for Hawaiʻi.

The CTAHR Faculty Senate's Personnel Committee would like to request your assistance in promoting the "Build a Safer CTAHR Community'' awareness campaign. Working with the college's Administrative Services, they have developed a flyer that presents major resources available for learning about and taking action on preventing and stopping workplace bullying, harassment, and violence.