In a salute to ARCS Honolulu Chapterʻs 50th anniversary, Honolulu Science Café will include two ARCS members and an ARCS Scientist of the Year in its fall schedule of monthly dinner speakers. Science Café brings together science enthusiasts from across O‘ahu for conversation and edification on the third... Read more
ARCS Honolulu for We are Stardust — the 2025 Heart of Gold Fundraiser Luncheon featuring special guest speaker Dr. David Blake and a stellar silent auction on Monday, February 10, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Outrigger Canoe Club, 2909 Kalakaua Ave.
Ames Research Center exobiologist David Blake has... Read more
Growing up under a pristine night sky far from city lights, one scholar’s fascination with the cosmos began early. Surrounded by stars and the Milky Way, Nicholas Saunders was captivated by the sheer magnitude of the universe. But his interest in exoplanets—planets orbiting stars outside our solar system—was... Read more
The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center has received the maximum five-year renewal of its National Cancer Institute designation. The center received its best score in a decade and classification as an “outstanding” cancer center, placing it in the top 4 percent of all cancer centers in the... Read more
Congratulations to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa's Dr. Tomoaki Miura, inducted as an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow in September. Dr. Miura is professor and chair of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, one of five College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources departments supported with Honolulu... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar Katie C.Y. Lee has demonstrated the importance of an energy regulating enzyme in heart health. “We discovered that your heart can't really be healthy without PKM2,” she says.
Building on research that Pyruvate kinase M2 plays a key role in glucose metabolism and energy expenditure, Katie demonstrated... Read more
The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine's National Insititues of Health grant to train graduate students and postdocs in cardiovascular health research has been renewed for another fiove years. The T32 grant will provide $385,000 per year to JABSOM's Center fort Cardiovascular Research... Read more
Congratulations to 2024 ARCS Scholar Arianna Brunnell, elected president of Graduate Women in Science Hawai‘i. GWISH unites women, girls, non-binary and gender non-conforming people across all science discipline and from diverse backgrounds to provide networking, professional development, and community presence. Arianna previously served as development coordinator for the organization. A PhD... Read more
Veteran conservationist Suzanne Case will talk about "My Life in Conservation: From Nature Conservancy to the University of Hawaii‘i" in a free, hybrid pau hana event on August 29. Pupus will be provided from 5 p.m. for in-person participants at the Sinclair Honu Conference Room at UH Manoa, with the talk... Read more
For the third consecutive year, the University of Hawai‘i has set a new record for extramural funding, again exceeding half a billion dollars. UH Manoa, the UH Systemʻs flagship campus and ARCS Honoluluʻs partner university, accounted for $464.9 million, including $13 million for community based projects to address health inequities... Read more
