Alumni News

Maui County Extension celebrated its 2017 award winners — Secretary Clarisse Baisa, to left in lei, for service to faculty and staff, and Research Technician Edwin Perez, at right in cap, winner of the Administrator’s Award.

Office Assistant Shirley Han, left, was recognized for her service to the Molokai Cooperative Extension staff at a December 2017 lunch hosted by Maui County Administrator Cynthia Reeves (in red).

Molecular Biosciences and Biological Engineering graduate student Fernanda Oliveira’s assessment of environmental application of biochar was one of the Bioresource Technology journal’s most downloaded papers. 

Shooting the flume, picking tea, feeding cows and seeing octopi up close were just a few of the adventures as CTAHR students made friends and practiced team building on the 2017 Meaningful Experience tour to Kona and environs on Hawai‘i Island. 

Perennial plants offer ecological advantages over annual crops, so plant biologist Michael Kantar works to develop commercially viable perennial alternatives to current grain and oilseed crops, which must be replanted every year.