June 2026

Reading time: 2 minutes A new report from the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) concludes that lowering the cost of solar energy, avoiding construction of new large fuel-burning power plants and preserving the option for enhanced geothermal energy could provide the most affordable path for Oʻahu’s electricity system through 2050. Published June 29, […]

Reading time: 2 minutes Trauma from vehicle collisions caused the majority of documented deaths for the Pueo (Hawaiian short-eared owl), according to a statewide study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The findings represent the most extensive mortality assessment to date for this culturally significant raptor, which is native to the

Reading time: 2 minutes A fish aggregating device recovered in Hawaiʻi waters. Lost or abandoned devices can become hazardous marine debris, threatening wildlife and coastal ecosystems. (Photo credit: DLNR) A new international study co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher found that drifting devices used by the global tuna fishing industry are entering

Reading time: 4 minutes The John A. Burns School of Medicine and the UH Cancer Center. Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center and UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) were awarded more than $12 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Pacific Center for Artificial Intelligence

Reading time: 2 minutes Student researchers Duy Linh Nguyen Tran, Colby Macapagal, Rodson Zorilla and Reyson-Jase Ramos under the mentorship of JABSOM virologist Vivek Nerurkar. Recent Kona low flooding has heightened concerns about leptospirosis, a bacterial disease transmitted through contaminated floodwaters. Now, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student researchers at the John A. Burns School

Reading time: 3 minutes Wu and Wynn deploy a seismic sensor. (Photo credit: Pablo Urra Tapia) In a rapid response to one of the largest tectonic events to shake Hawaiʻi in decades, scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Earth sciences have deployed a network of temporary seismic sensors across the west

Reading time: 2 minutes Tucked away at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa’s Komohana facility in Hilo, a small team of researchers from the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) is building the clean seed pipeline that could help secure the future of the state’s sweetpotato industry. Clean seeds are vine cuttings that

Reading time: 2 minutes Native Hawaiian adults experience mobility limitations—including challenges with agility, gait, balance and fall risk—at significantly higher rates and at younger ages than other major racial and ethnic groups in Hawaiʻi, according to new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders. The

Reading time: 3 minutes Goblin shark near Jarvis Island in 2019 (Photo credit: Ocean Exploration Trust, Nautilus Live.) The first published live observations of the rare goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) in its natural deep ocean habitat were reported by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa-led team of oceanographers. In the past, goblin sharks were only

Reading time: 2 minutes The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) is central to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant to protect the state from invasive plant threats. The $322,000 grant will fund two state projects to improve early identification of major hibiscus, banana, and citrus