Growing more food in Hawaii could increase the security of the food supply, conserve energy used in transportation, reduce the risk of introducing invasive pests and even improve nutritional content by providing fresher foods.

Before he was an astronaut, Stanley Love studied meteorites as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa physicists enjoyed particular satisfaction—and a little self-congratulation—at the announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. The UH scientists had a hand both in bringing the winning work to the attention of the scientific community three decades ago, and in recent experiments that validated the theory.

University of Hawaiʻi alumni events in February and March 2009.

Ron Terry
BA in geography ’80 Hilo

George Furukawa
BA in journalism ’76, Mānoa

Late UH Alumni Association lifetime members Betsy Nip Wong (BEd ’34 Mānoa) and Kenneth Aloiau Wong (BS in engineering ’29 Mānoa) have been memorialized in a garden at UH Hilo’s ʻImiloa Astronomy Center.

The UH Alumni Association has announced five recipients for four 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards.