April 2026

Reading time: 2 minutes Heavy rainfall pours over a steep tropical landscape in Hawaiʻi. For decades, scientists have worked to improve predictions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate powerhouse that can cause droughts, flooding, marine heatwaves and more around the world. Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa published a study showing that […]

Reading time: 2 minutes ICS Assistant Professor Anthony Peruma presenting the paper “Practitioner Views on Mobile App Accessibility: Practices and Challenges” in the ICSE 2026 Research Track. Faculty from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) presented two peer-reviewed papers at the 48th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Reading time: 2 minutes View of the rosette water sampler as it ascends to collect water. (Photo credit: HOT Program) Oceanographers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa discovered that microbial communities—from the sunlit surface to extreme depths—in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre exhibit robust seasonal cycles. The study provides new insight into how high

Reading time: 2 minutes Examples of millimeter- to centimeter-scale soft robots that have been recently developed by Wang’s lab, Soft Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory. These projects are led by graduate students Debasish Roy, Munir Zarea and Robert Wiemer, and several undergraduate students. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has received nearly $1 million in

Reading time: 3 minutes The University of Hawaiʻi has launched a new office that will serve as a central hub for grant support, research development and funding opportunities to help boost scientific discovery, increase research capacity and stimulate workforce development in the state. Backed by the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) from the

Reading time: 3 minutes Flooded streets in Waikīkī. (Photo credit: David Muther) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers revealed that Waikīkī is facing a fundamental shift in flood hazards as sea levels rise—transitioning from a flooding that is driven primarily by rainfall to events increasingly dominated by tidal processes. The team identified two key pathways

Reading time: 2 minutes Illustration of a star and a brown dwarf in a binary system. (Generated with ChatGPT.) Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi have precisely measured the age of a nearby Sun-like star and its unusual companion, known as a brown dwarf, an object that falls between a planet and a star. The

Reading time: 3 minutes Native honu are acting as reef defenders by grazing on invasive algae that threaten Papahānaumokuākea coral. An invasive algae already well-established in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is raising concern among researchers as it threatens to spread into the main Hawaiian Islands. Scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the

Reading time: < 1 minute Image of planet Uranus. (Credit: NASA) Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have taken a major step in understanding the distant planet Uranus. By combining data from Keck Observatory with the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, researchers created the first complete picture of how light reflects

Reading time: 2 minutes The University of Hawaiʻi has been designated as a new Pacific Reef Research Coordination Institute (Pacific RRCI) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to support coral reef conservation in the Pacific through research, collaboration and public education. The Pacific RRCI will be housed in UH’s Office of Land and