College of Natural Sciences – University of Hawaiʻi System News

New discovery-based research curriculum for biological sciences launching at UH Mānoa

May 18, 2018
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SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science), a new program in UH Manoa's Department of Biology, provides students science education through discovery-based research experiences in the classroom.

Library science program receives prestigious grant award

May 1, 2018
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The grant award will fund a 3-year professional development program involving collaborative projects with UH Mānoa LIS, the Native Hawaiian Library of ALU LIKE, Inc., and professional public librarians of the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System.

2018 spring commencement schedule

April 30, 2018
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The University of Hawaiʻi celebrates at 2018 spring commencement ceremonies systemwide.

Grant enables UH Mānoa team to study Hawaiʻi’s intertidal ecosystem

April 23, 2018
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Joanna Philippoff, assistant specialist at UH Mānoa’s College of Education, was awarded $44,000 from the UH Sea Grant College Program for professional development for middle and high school science teachers and internships for students.

Bringing multiple values to the table in Hawaiʻi land-use decisions

April 12, 2018
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UH researchers developed a collaborative approach to assessing the multiple values that different ecosystems in Hawaiʻi provide and how collaboration with stakeholders can help evaluate and compare the potential future uses of pastureland.

UH physicists help advance nuclear nonproliferation project

March 28, 2018
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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.

Chocolate in deep space

March 14, 2018
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UH Mānoa chemists have definitively created and identified three chocolate flavor molecules under conditions that simulate how such molecules might form in the cosmos.

A role model who revels in research

January 23, 2018
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Narrissa Spies, a graduate student in the College of Natural Sciences, is a cultural practitioner who will inspire future ocean researchers.

UH attracts $23M federal investment to Hawaiʻi to reduce health disparities

December 12, 2017
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The specialized center will focus on advancing health for citizens who suffer disproportionately from genetic, environmental and socio-economic related disparities.

Exploring biofilms and the search for life on Mars

November 21, 2017
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Rebecca Prescott, a UH Manoa microbiology student who recently received her PhD, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship award for her project.