Alumni News

Animals often appear in the mele (songs), moʻolelo (stories and history), and kipuka (connection to nature) of our shared, rich Hawaiian culture. So for the last speaker in her 2022 Companion Animals and Society guest lecture series, veterinarian Julie Bennington in the Dept. of Human Nutrition, Food, and Animal Sciences invited Hawaiian musician Mailani Makaʻinaʻi to her classroom. 

Kent Kobayashi has reached an exciting milestone of working at CTAHR for 40 years. The professor and researcher in the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences has conducted a profusion of studies over the years, all while educating students on LED lighting, controlled environments, hydroponics and much more. A man of many interests, Kent has attained a variety of degrees in his career, but one thing has remained constant: his passion for science.

What started out as a hobby for four graduate students has started to become much more than that. Bitter Root Brewery (BRB for short) is a student-run business. Our ginger beer, or the O.G. (the Original Ginger) was created in a Fermentation Biochemistry class offered in the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering.

You’d be a-maize-d about how much there is to learn about corn! On Wednesday, December 2nd, the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences held its “ a-MAIZE-ing Science Fair” at the Student Center of UHM campus. The fair had games, popcorn, and good times as students were educated on maize (corn) and the findings of Michael Muszynski and his team.

Registration is free, and four HDOA Pesticide CEUs will be offered for the last CTAHR workshop of this calendar year: the 2022 CTAHR Pesticide Safety and Education Workshop.