Breast cancer early detection research awarded $2.8 million
JABSOM’s Youping Deng and his team are doing promising work in the development of a new diagnostic tool to improve the early detection of breast cancer.
$8M grant to UH Cancer Center for minority clinical trials
Funding will help increase participation of minority, rural and underserved patient populations in Â鶹´«Ã½.
Icebergs delay Southern Hemisphere future warming
Climate researchers, including those at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, have quantified for the first time the effect of Antarctic iceberg calving.
Unique dietary strategy of invasive marine sponge
Sponges play an important role in the nutrient dynamics of coral reefs and could possibly rise to dominate coral reefs as corals decline due to human activity and climate change.
Record-breaking survey investigates Alaskan ocean trench
At 5,150 meters (approximately 3.2 miles) below sea level, the deepest controlled-source electromagnetic survey of the sea floor happened above an oceanic trench in the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction Zone.
Critical observation made on Maunakea during first night of return to operations
Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Earth by this asteroid for the next century.
Astronomers to deploy breakthrough technology at UH telescope
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to an IfA scientist to install a high-tech shape-shifting secondary mirror on the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea.
Key phosphorus-based molecule for life on Earth may have come from Space
A meteor could be the vessel to have brought a key ingredient to life on Earth, according to researchers at UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹.
Fishpond sees dramatic turn after removal of invasive plants
The two-year project, led by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Sea Grant Program, removed an island of invasive red mangroves and replaced them with native plants, and studies show that the fishpond’s ecosystem and water quality have improved dramatically.
UH medical postdoc honored for heart research
Andrew Knutson will receive $60,000 over three years while working in the lab of his mentor, Ralph Shohei, in the Center for Cardiovascular Research.