Monitoring COVID-19 virus in Honolulu wastewater focus of UH public impact research
The technique that may be utilized in the future to measure the presence of other types of viruses.
Rat lungworm transmitted by many more species than slugs, snails
Researchers found prawns/shrimp, crabs, flatworms, fish, frogs, toads, lizards and centipedes have been associated with causing rat lungworm disease in humans.
More than $200K supports creation of Haunani-Kay Trask biography
Haunani-Kay Trask was one of the most influential Native Hawaiian scholars of the 20th century.
$2.8M to develop e-cigarette intervention for rural Hawaiian youth
The grant will help develop and evaluate a school-based, culturally-grounded e-cigarette prevention intervention for Â鶹´«Ã½'s rural youth.
4 species of limu receive Hawaiian names
One of the species was named for respected community and conservation leader Laura Kalaukapu Thompson.
UH part of consortium awarded $10M NSF alliance supporting data science in Hawai?i, Pacific
The consortium is led by Chaminade University, working with the John A. Burns School of Medicine, the East-West Center and Texas Advanced Computing Center.
New tool provides wave flooding predictions for West Maui
A new interactive mapping tool created by researchers at PacIOOS provides West Maui with predictions of coastal flooding.
UH and Navy establish water resilience collaboration
An Office of Naval Research grant was awarded to UH for science and technology development, including hydrology research in August 2022.
UH astronomers produce catalog to extensively map universe
IfA researchers help produce a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies.
$148K project to digitize thousands of rare, native plant specimens
The project will preserve and improve access worldwide to one of the oldest collections of Pacific plants.