National Cancer Institute boosts UH Cancer Center support to $8.4M
The National Cancer Institute increased its support of the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center from $5.7 million to $8.4 million and extended its NCI designation to July 2022.
A scholarly focus on sustainability and stewardship
Three graduates from the Global Environmental Science program in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology work toward a healthy Hawaiʻi.
Water formation on the Moon demonstrated by UH Mānoa scientists
The W.M. Keck Research Laboratory and the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology have collaborated on a project that for the first time has shown chemical, physical and material evidence for water formation on the Moon.
Work to make chemicals cheaper, more environmentally friendly, earns prestigious NSF grant
Matthew Cain, assistant professor of chemistry, received a $675,000 grant over a five-year term from the NSF Early Career Development program.
Scientists present new clues to cut through the mystery of Titan’s atmospheric haze
A team co-led by a UH researcher Ralf Kaiser homes in on a “missing link’ in Titan’s one-of-a-kind chemistry.
Kapiʻolani CC sustainability project generates fuel, fertilizer and more
Chemistry, culinary and economics students are involved in an award-winning sustainability project at Kapiʻolani Community College.
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
Phosphates, a key building block for life, was found to be generated in outer space and delivered to early Earth by meteorites or comets.
UH student will shave head to support childhood cancer research
Undergraduate biochemistry major and aspiring doctor Mark Brisco is the recipient of the 2018 St. Baldrick's Summer Fellowship Award.
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.
DNA expert opens Windward CC’s chemistry forum series
Hawaiʻi Innocence Project consultant David Haymer will discuss new methods of DNA analysis as part of Windward CC's Forum in Chemistry series.
