Fewer years of healthy life for Native Hawaiians, UH study finds
New findings show that Native Hawaiians in Hawaiʻi have a shorter life expectancy and spend fewer years in good health.
UH Cancer Center receives $2M to study genetic risk factors to environmental toxins
UH Cancer Center researchers Michele Carbone and Haining Yang were awarded the grant, over a three-year period, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Easy-to-use optical method invented to help disperse particles
Yi Zuo, a UH Mānoa professor, has invented a groundbreaking method that allows for easy determination of the surface free energy of particles as a quantitative measure of particle hydrophobicity.
Climate warming promises more frequent extreme El Niño events
An international team of climate researchers, lead by Bin Wang of the UH Manoa examined 33 El Niño events to predict future El Niño behavior and shifts in weather patterns.
UH team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Physical chemist Ralf I. Kaiser and fellow researchers examined remote sensing data regarding NASA’s Cassini–Huygens mission to Titan.
UH team finds glitch that could affect more than 100 scientific studies
The glitch was discovered when UH Mānoa graduate student, Yuheng Luo, was verifying chemistry data and found that a computer's operating system would present varied results.
Forest conservation could save $1.4M to Maui water
UH Economic Research Organization and Water Resources Research Center researchers find that conservation efforts benefit the land and local water supplies.
Whale bubble-net feeding documented by UH researchers through groundbreaking video
The video footage collected helps researchers better track humpback whale behavior, habitat use and changes in food due to climate change.
$5.3M for world-famous UH reproductive lab
The grant will allow the Institute for Biogenesis Research to produce transgenic mice for other researchers seeking medical cures at UH.
Research team lays groundwork for nanoscale particle discoveries
Embedding such particles in a “matrix” (referring to a surrounding medium or structure) composed of a different material makes it possible to create nanocomposites that enable new technologies.
