Alumni News

CTAHR Showcase & Research Symposium (SRS) is just around the corner!  Please register to attend and cheer on our students.  We have over 50 undergraduate and graduate students presenting their creative works and research projects on Monday, March 27th.   SRS includes a networking breakfast, opening remarks, presentations, with a networking lunch to follow.  Please visit the SRS website for more information.

Attending conferences gets expensive for graduate students. Last year’s orchid sale by the Plant Pathology Graduate Student Organization provided funding to FOUR graduate students to represent UH at national meetings. You can support our budding scientists – and get some beautiful plants for your home decor.

On the misty morning of Saturday, February 25th, hundreds of people gathered at the Amy B.H Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden to celebrate Hawaiian culture and natural history at the 2023 Grow Hawaiian Festival. Hosted by the Friends of Amy B.H Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, the festival was the garden’s first event in over 3 years.

Looking to spend your summer learning and working in a 200-acre botanical garden, university arboretum, and conservation research site? Lyon Arboretum is now accepting applications for their summer internship programs, a paid opportunity for those looking to gain experience in conservation and horticulture.

“I recently joined researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to visit several aquaculture firms on the island of Hawaii. Every company we visited expressed the same serious challenge: recruiting skilled workers in and to Hawai’i,” writes CTSA executive director Dr. Cheng-Sheng Lee