Alumni News

Sheltering at home, but not quite achieving the “quality time” you envisioned for learning and family bonding? The Family Education Training Center of Hawai‘i (FETCH) has some ideas for you in its Spring 2020 newsletter.

Cooperative Extension is offering an online informational session exclusively for producers TOMORROW, Thursday, May 28. Participants will learn about research trials and innovative production practices being conducted around Hawai‘i. They’ll also take home organically grown ginger, turmeric, and other goodies.

For centuries, breadfruit has served as a major staple food in the Pacific Islands, and starting 200 years ago has spread widely across the global tropics. Lauded as a crop that could potentially transform tropical agriculture and address global hunger, breadfruit has high productivity, an excellent nutritional profile, and is a long-lived tree—whereas virtually all other world staples are annual crops.

Besides working as an assistant horticulturist at Lyon Arboretum, David Shepard is the designer of his own line of men’s and women’s clothing, which uses place-based Hawaiian botanical prints to raise awareness of and funding for conservation causes. Now the alumnus of CTAHR’s Deptartment of Tropical Plants and Soil Sciences has begun creating tropical-themed face masks.

E-books not cutting it for you? Need a crucial tome to complete your research? Or maybe you just miss the solid feel of a book in your hands? There’s cause to rejoice: the UH Mānoa Library is launching a new “Request, Sign, Grab and Go” service!