UH research center adds renewable energy focus
The U.S. Navy modified its contract with UH’s Applied Research Laboratory to add a new core technical competency in renewable energy.
UH Pacific Business Center’s breadfruit project wins national economic development award
A UH project to promote and expand breadfruit use in the Pacific won a top University Economic Development Association award.
Food waste conversion the focus of new partnership
CTAHR and ProtaCulture partnership aims to accelerate research in bioprocessing and conversion.
$2.5 million Naval research contract examines power grid modernization
The $2.5 million Navy-UH Applied Research Laboratory research effort will focus on renewable energy opportunities.
Seafood substitutions can expose consumers to unexpectedly high mercury
A study led by UH Mānoa’s Peter Marko discovers that seafood mislabeling can disguise geographic origin, one of the most important factors in mercury levels.
Navy expands investment at wave energy test site
The Applied Research Laboratory at UH and Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute receives $9m for testing and research of wave energy conversion devices.
Christopher Lepczyk helps author roadmap on natural resources
Science, Education and Outreach Roadmap for Natural Resources reports that research, education and outreach are key to managing environmental issues.
Research leads to sensor breakthrough, promises safer structures
David Ma and Hui Zhang have achieved an efficient method of harvesting mechanical energy to power autonomous sensor networks.
UH partners on project to improve nuclear arms control technology
Milton Garces, of Hawaiʻi Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, will lead infrasound portion of program focused on improving the nation’s nuclear arms control technology.
Researchers find corn yields more sensitive to drought, climate change
The study, co-authored by UH Mānoa Associate Professor Michael Roberts, was published in May in the journal Science.
