UH Research News

Reading time: 2 minutes A groundbreaking effort to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to slow—and potentially reverse—Alzheimer’s disease symptoms in Hawaiʻi is underway at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Katy Tarrit, assistant professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, is leading this new, locally focused 18-month research initiative. The project aims to develop […]

Reading time: 2 minutes Certificate organic production fields at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology The University of Hawaiʻi is leading global scholarship on food system transformation with the completion of a major open access e-book, Food System Transformation and the Realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food

Reading time: 2 minutes (Photo credit: D koi/Unsplash) A new chemical method that could speed up the creation of medicines, materials and products people rely on every day has been developed by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Chemistry researchers. The work, published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a journal of the German Chemical

Reading time: 2 minutes Brig. Gen. Katherine A. Trombley, commander 9th Mission Support Command, and UH Interim Vice President for Research and Innovation Chad B. Walton The University of Hawaiʻi and the U.S. Army Reserve’s 9th Mission Support Command (9th MSC) have entered into a new Intergovernmental Support Agreement (IGSA) to advance environmental stewardship, conservation

Reading time: 2 minutes (Image credit: NOAA) A new peer-reviewed study led by University of Hawaiʻi researchers reveals a critical gap in disaster readiness across Hawaiʻi, with only 12% of households meeting the State of Hawaiʻi’s recommended levels of emergency stockpiling of food, water and essential medicine. This low compliance signals significant vulnerability should a

Reading time: < 1 minute Kanoa doing field work on Maui with colleagues. After graduating from Kalaheo High School, Hope Kanoa knew she wanted to focus on Hawaiʻi’s water resources while attending the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She found a fitting option in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), which

Reading time: 2 minutes For the first time, researchers have documented a round-trip migration of a tiger shark between Hawaiʻi and Mexico. This discovery was made by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Shark Lab and the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS). The finding helps advance the understanding

Reading time: < 1 minute UH Manoa celebrates the opening of the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies in Hamilton Library. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hamilton Library joined a global network of leading research libraries with the opening of its Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) on November 17. As the 55th

Reading time: 2 minutes Kupuna playing ʻulu maika (traditional stone disc-rolling game). Engaging in cultural and social activities is strongly linked to better mental health for Native Hawaiian, American Indian & Alaska Native elders, according to a new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa published in American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research.

Reading time: 2 minutes University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have wrapped up a six-week campaign at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire or European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, to study how rare antimatter particles (particles with opposite charge to ordinary matter) are created.