Community support, risk awareness may lower hypertension rates
Research was led by Catherine Pirkle and Tetine Sentell in the Office of Public Health Studies at the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.
How submarine groundwater affects coral reef growth
UH Mānoa researchers find that corals can thrive on submarine groundwater discharge impacted reefs if isolated from secondary stressors such as competition from seaweeds and sedimentation.
UH physicists help advance nuclear nonproliferation project
The first-ever detection device to remotely monitor nuclear reactors is being designed and built by universities and laboratories around the world including researchers from UH Mānoa.
New energy harvesting method is game changer for self-powered devices
UH Mānoa engineering researchers have discovered a method to snowball any arbitrarily low level ambient energy to a useable level
Study says freshwater rinse is real laundry hero
Sangwoo Shin's research reveals that the true “hero” in the dynamic cleaning process may actually be a sudden surge of the freshwater rinse
HI-SEAS Mission VII recruiting crew
Researchers from UH Mānoa are seeking crewmembers for a NASA-funded long-duration space exploration analog study.
Lower educational attainment and income, early trauma can increase health risks
The study by UH Mānoa's Catherine Pirkle and Yan Yan Wu examined whether social and behavioral risk factors make certain groups more vulnerable to metabolic syndrome.
New findings on type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer survival rates
UH researchers Yvette Amshoff, Gertraud Maskarinec and Andrew Grandinetti looked at 24 years of health data and found that patients who have type 2 diabetes in addition to other chronic diseases have a lower survival rate for colorectal cancer.
Chocolate in deep space
UH Mānoa chemists have definitively created and identified three chocolate flavor molecules under conditions that simulate how such molecules might form in the cosmos.
Partnership brings Pacific Disaster Center technology to businesses worldwide
Powered by Pacific Disaster Center’s global, cloud-based DisasterAWARE platform, DisasterAWARE Enterprise will be released by enterprise solutions provider Kaazing as an advanced enterprise risk intelligence platform.
