CTAHR Summer Research Program
The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) has established an exciting new program to engage high school and undergraduate students from Hawaii in research projects being conducted by the college faculty at its Manoa campus and at CTAHR Agricultural Research and Extension Stations (CARES) centers on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, and Molokai. The goal of this 8-week summer research program is to promote student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, and Mathematics (STEAM) by engaging students in real-world laboratory, field, and/or library-based research projects focused on building solutions to local and global problems. Students 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 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.