New energy harvesting method is game changer for self-powered devices
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ engineering researchers have discovered a method to snowball any arbitrarily low level ambient energy to a useable level
Study says freshwater rinse is real laundry hero
Sangwoo Shin's research reveals that the true “hero” in the dynamic cleaning process may actually be a sudden surge of the freshwater rinse
Lower educational attainment and income, early trauma can increase health risks
The study by UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹'s Catherine Pirkle and Yan Yan Wu examined whether social and behavioral risk factors make certain groups more vulnerable to metabolic syndrome.
New findings on type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer survival rates
Â鶹´«Ã½researchers Yvette Amshoff, Gertraud Maskarinec and Andrew Grandinetti looked at 24 years of health data and found that patients who have type 2 diabetes in addition to other chronic diseases have a lower survival rate for colorectal cancer.
Chocolate in deep space
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ chemists have definitively created and identified three chocolate flavor molecules under conditions that simulate how such molecules might form in the cosmos.
UH Hilo part of research tying urban land-use change to financial credit
Philippe Binder and colleagues sought a better understanding of why conservationists and natural resource managers have lost ground in the past 20 years, while large, lucrative development properties were proposed, approved and funded.
Mind-body therapy effective for military veterans with PTSD
The study co-authored by UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Professor Kathryn Braun was published in the Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
UH Press partnership renews publication of Rapa Nui Journal
The journal serves as a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences on Easter Island and the Eastern Polynesian region.
Benefits of urban agriculture estimated in the billions
A new research article, co-written by UH West Oʻahu’s Albie Miles, quantifies urban agriculture globally and examines its potential to provide a range of key ecosystem services.
Research reveals how climate change may affect Hawaiian fishpond aquaculture
Results published recently in PlosONE indicate that there is a relationship between two periods of high fish mortality at He?eia Fishpond and changes in the climate.