Alumni News

Dr. Samir Ali El Swaify was a retired Emeritus Professor of Soil Science in the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soils in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He devoted his life to research and teaching both graduate and undergraduate students.

Charlton Kūpaʻa Hee, Destiny Apilado, and Aaron Wehrman – incoming grad students in the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Management – were selected to receive Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation fellowships to develop the next generation of natural resource management leaders from and for Hawaiʻi.

The CTAHR Faculty Senate's Personnel Committee would like to request your assistance in promoting the "Build a Safer CTAHR Community'' awareness campaign. Working with the college's Administrative Services, they have developed a flyer that presents major resources available for learning about and taking action on preventing and stopping workplace bullying, harassment, and violence.

The name of this compound is currently a secret, so for now we’ll call it the “Chelsea.” But if further studies pan out, the whole world might someday learn about a promising new drug treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. “Our lab has discovered anti-Alzheimer’s properties in several small molecules from natural sources such as corn silk and soybeans,” says Chelsea Miller, a PhD student in the lab of Qing X. Li in the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering. “My hypothesis is that their mechanism of action is the direct binding and inhibition of an enzyme called GSK3-beta.”

“The college initiated a strategic positioning effort in the middle of a pandemic. That may seem like a bad idea, but the timing was fortuitous.” With this opening Aloha message to faculty, staff, and stakeholders from Dean Nick Comerford, the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources laid out its new “Strategic Positioning and Visioning 2022-2027” report.