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?
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... Read more
University of Hawai‘iʻs Sea Grant College Program has received a $68.5 million grant to work with government, community, and non-profit partners to bring indigenous knowledge and practices to bear on long-term climate resilience in the state. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funding will support conservation efforts and build community... Read more
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Hawai‘i a major cyberinfrastructure grant, and its president has been been tapped for national information technology roles.
The five-year, $6.5 million NSF grant is intended to improve cyberinfrastructure in the Pacific. With partners from Chaminade University, University of Guam, and Texas Advanced... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar Patrick Drupphas expressed caution about geoengineering research designed to artificially cool Earth. "We’re already running a massive chemical experiment on the planet, and now you’re talking about another massive experiment,” the director of climate policy for the Sierra Club told the New York Times.... Read more
The first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in geology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Haunani Kane has never lost sight of her cultural roots in pursuing her science career.
Honolulu associate member Mariana Gerschenson has secured $11.3 million in National Institute of Health funding for an additional five years of diabetes research in Hawai‘i, where nearly one in two people have the disease or live with pre-diabetes. Dr. Gerschenson is associate dean for research at the University of Hawai‘i... Read more
Welcome to Dr. Parwinder Grewal, new Dean of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoaʻs College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources—one of the Honolulu partner universityʻs six units supported with ARCS Scholar Awards.
“I want CTAHR to have a real impact on food security in Hawaiʻi and work collaboratively with... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar Christopher Kang is lead author on the cover article of the February 2024 issue of the American Chemistry Societyʻs Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Chris uses simulation methodologies to study chemical properties and compounds related to permeability of medications — the passage of drugs from the... Read more
Honolulu ARCS Scholar S. Holden Jones has discovered a bit of good news for a critically endangered poison-dart frog. 
