Journey of resilience: UH Mānoa graduate triumphs over challenges
Reading time: 3 minutes Kaʻawaloa intends to take the Medical College Admission Test in the fall before applying to medical school the following year.
50 years of service: Mark Merlin, ethnobotanist and environmental historian
Reading time: 4 minutes Mark Merlin is a professor in the UH Mānoa School of Life Sciences.
In wake of powerful cyclone, remarkable recovery of Pacific island’s forests
Reading time: 3 minutes Climate change is expected to increase the intensity and frequency of cyclones, causing huge potential risks to forests and the people who depend on them.
Giant Antarctic sea spiders’ 140-year-old reproductive mystery solved
Reading time: 3 minutes Instead of carrying the babies until they hatched, as in most species of sea spiders, one parent spent two days attaching the eggs to the rocky bottom of the sea.
From lava caves to Mars: Hawaiʻi students unveil astrobiology discoveries
Reading time: 3 minutes Sites such as Hawaiʻi lava caves are important in astrobiology.
NSF fellowship graduates making an impact locally, globally
Reading time: 3 minutes The application deadline for the 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship is February 15, 2024.
Deep-water seaweed focus of $892K research grant
Reading time: 3 minutes The target area is called the mesophotic zone, which is an extremely low-light environment.
Fostering the next generation of STEM leaders through hands-on activities
Reading time: 2 minutes UH Mānoa students, faculty and staff led the students through different hands-on activities.
Lifetime achievement award in marine biology for UH professor
Reading time: 2 minutes The Western Society of Naturalists is the oldest professional marine biological society in western North America.
Bright pink Maui water likely caused by bacteria
Reading time: 2 minutes The early findings have led the experts to suggest that halophilic (thriving in salt conditions) prokaryotes, also known as archaea and bacteria, were likely the cause of the brightly colored water.
