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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 sparked by a...

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 ARCS...

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 that...

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 train scientists in...

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...

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 and...

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 beginning...

Island visitors and crossword afficianados alike recognize the nēnē goose as Hawai‘i’s State Bird. But did you know that there were once three species—one flightless—that all evolved from Canadian geese which made it to the archipelago some 500 million years ago?

Honolulu ARCS Scholar Patrick Hart shares information about the nēnē...

Native Hawaiians exhibit higher rates of accelerated aging compared to white and Japanese Americans, the Honolulu Chapterʻs 2024 Scientist of the Year reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A leading epigeneticist, Dr. Alika Maunakea is a professor in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa John A. Burns...

Honolulu ARCS Scholar S. Holden Jones has discovered a bit of good news for a critically endangered poison-dart frog.

While conducting transects in a privately protected forest reserve in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, as part of his research on biodiversity in cacao plantations and nearby remnant forests, Holden’s team encountered the Leucostethus bilsa ...