Alumni News

Blaire Langston (NREM) and project partner Erika Peralta received a Green Student Leader award for their campus waste-reduction and student-sustainability initiatives. The award, in the amount of $1,000, was from Johnson Controls.

Over 500 students and teachers attended the Agriculture and Environmental Awareness Day event at the Urban Garden Center to learn about the importance of agriculture and the environment in the community and to find out more about career opportunities in agriculture and environmental studies in Hawai‘i.

Shu Hwa Lin’s work using technology to improve protective gear was highlighted in a recent national report. The Fashion Design and Merchandising faculty member also designed an easily donned evening gown for stroke patients.
 

The 4-H AGventure program has just concluded its fifth year. Over a thousand 4th-graders had an opportunity to learn about Hawai‘i’s agriculture from the best of the best. 4-H AGventure owes its success to the support, dedication, and time of the many volunteers who work to make it so great!

Almost 80 visitors joined the UH Insect Museum’s 7th annual Darwin Day celebration for live insect meet-and-greets, insect and marine arthropod exhibits, and snacks for insect-eating plants, lizards and humans.