Alumni News

Seedless, non-invasive, low-maintenance, tropical ornamental plants for Hawaii landscapes, all new and improved – and presented by someone who’s been around ornamentals for more than 50 years: Dr. Ken Leonhardt. Please join Ken this Friday @ 1:30 p.m., for the last Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences and Graduate Student Seminar of the Fall 2020 semester, when Ken will discuss “Variety development in tropical ornamentals.”

With CTAHR’s 2020 Convocation coming up (and the holidays), your CTAHR Alumni Association and Friends invites you to learn how to make ti leaf lei.

CTAHR alumna Samantha Alvarado will lead this fun and informative webinar on Saturday, December 12^th @ High Noon (12:00 p.m.). To participate:

• Register now
• Pick about 20 Ti leaves, at least 24 hours before the class.*
• Watch the first minute of this video on preparing leaves, 24 hours prior to the class.**

Convocation is a culmination of years of hard work, perseverance, and academic achievement for every graduating student – especially in a pandemic!

While we know a virtual celebration cannot take the place of the traditional in-person event, we want to make the virtual celebration as meaningful as possible.

For almost three decades, the Halawa Xeriscape Garden has upheld a holiday tradition of teaching the community how to turn water-conserving plants into eye-catching and colorful holiday wreaths – and no pandemic is going to stop the magic.

With 340 islands spread over the Pacific, it’s no wonder the residents of Palau heavily depend on the ocean for food. So when this isolated archipelago closed 80% of its ocean to fishing in order to conserve biodiversity and ensure future food security, the concern quickly became, “What are the unintended consequences on local ecosystems and people?"