UH Research News

Reading time: 2 minutes Scientists can’t prepare for future viral threats if they don’t know what’s already in the environment. That’s the idea behind an international research project involving the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), where researchers created the largest known atlas of RNA viruses found in urban […]

Reading time: 2 minutes A University of Hawaiʻi-led research network that helps scientists monitor space weather and cosmic rays has received a nearly $1 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The Simpson Neutron Monitor Network includes ground-based cosmic ray detectors at multiple locations, including Haleakalā in Hawaiʻi, supporting space weather research and real-time

Reading time: < 1 minute Youping Deng (center) with his research team . A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa research team is working to improve lung cancer treatment by developing new ways to predict which patients will respond to immunotherapy and identify treatments that can overcome resistance. The five-year, approximately $3.26 million National Institutes of

Reading time: 2 minutes University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are working to determine whether Hawaiʻi-grown eucalyptus could become a reliable source of lumber for construction, helping reduce the state’s reliance on imported building materials while supporting healthier forests. The project, led by Jun Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and

Reading time: 3 minutes Air conditioning units line the outside of a building (Photo credit: proudlyswazi via Unsplash) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa atmospheric scientists found that the century-old yardstick used across many industries to estimate air-conditioning and refrigeration energy demand—called cooling degree days—is missing something fundamental. Published in Nature Communications, the study reports a

Reading time: 2 minutes The device’s design ensure the tag lands upright on the whales from a far distance. Marine mammal research has attained new heights as scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are deploying noninvasive suction-cup tags onto humpback whales using drones. Traditionally, researchers from the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) in

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