CTAHR Summer Research Institute
The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) has established an exciting new program to engage high school and undergraduate students from Hawaiʻi in research projects being conducted by CTAHR faculty at its Mānoa campus and at CTAHR Agricultural Research and Extension Stations (CARES) centers on the islands of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi, Maui, and Molokaʻi.
The goal of this 8-week summer research program is to empower students to become innovators by building solutions to real-world problems. Student researchers will engage in laboratory, field, and/or library-based research projects focused on addressing to local and global problems.
Student researchers will spend 25 hours per week, with a flexible schedule agreeable to the student and their mentor(s), in laboratory and field research facilities across the state. Each student researcher will conduct original scientific research under the guidance of a faculty mentor and possibly also a post-doctoral researcher or a graduate student acting as co-mentor. At end of the summer, student researchers will present the findings of their projects at a symposium on the Mānoa campus.