July 2026

Reading time: 2 minutes Team from UH Hilo measures a blacktip shark Research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo has identified the first known blacktip shark nursery habitat in Hawaiian waters, offering new insight into how young sharks use Hilo Bay during their earliest years. Juvenile blacktip shark The recently published study found juvenile […]

Reading time: 2 minutes Researcher dives near a coral reef in Kailua-Kona, Hawaiʻi. (Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries/ Dani Escontrella.) Since the first major bleaching event in 1996, Hawaiian corals have been subject to increasing heat stress and more prevalent bleaching events. New research from oceanographers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa used high-resolution modeling

Reading time: 3 minutes Assistant Professor Liuwan Zhu (left) and Assistant Professor Zepeng Li (right) will lead two UH research projects selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s inaugural Genesis Mission, a national initiative using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery Two University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa research projects have been selected for the inaugural

Reading time: 3 minutes (Photo credit: Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources) Three years after the 2023 Maui wildfires, residents are showing meaningful signs of recovery&@8212;but persistent food insecurity, housing instability, health concerns and weakening social support continue to place many families at risk. That is the central finding of a new community report

Reading time: 2 minutes Hawaiʻi imports 100% of its rice, totaling 140 million pounds a year; local production can play a major role in the state’s food security Last fall, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers asked the question: Can Hawaiʻi grow rice again? Now, a new study published in Frontiers in Agronomy has given

Reading time: 2 minutes Wendy Kuntz, James Lee, Charlotte Bender, Xander Nakamura, Keala Kaaloa, Misaki Takabayashi. A decade of undergraduate research and stewardship at Kapiʻolani Community College has earned top honors at the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Conference. Students Charlotte Bender, James Lee, Keala Kaaloa and Xander Nakamura received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award

Reading time: 2 minutes The Colca Valley in the Peruvian Andes (Photo credit: Patricia van den Berg, pixabay) A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa physicist is part of an international team behind a new approach to studying some of the universe’s most mysterious particles&@8212;using mountains instead of ice. A paper published July 15 in Nature

Reading time: 3 minutes Alika K. Maunakea, professor at the UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that certain gut bacteria are associated with the pace of biological aging. The research adds to growing evidence that the gut microbiome may play an important role in

Reading time: 2 minutes A close up of coral polyps at Olowalu. (Photo credit: Drew Sulock) Human activities are fundamentally altering the chemical makeup of local coral reefs, according to a study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and published in Nature Communications. The research team discovered that 25 contaminants from agricultural, industrial

Reading time: 2 minutes When talking about Hawaiʻi’s food security, the conversation often focuses on physical infrastructure — warehouses, cold storage, and doubling crop production to combat importing 90% of our food. A new policy article by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher contends that physical infrastructure and production are essential, but incomplete when