UH botany expert earns national emerging leader award
Karolina Heyduk is the director of the Joseph F. Rock Herbarium, which is housed in the School of Life Sciences.
Karolina Heyduk is the director of the Joseph F. Rock Herbarium, which is housed in the School of Life Sciences.
The $65 million, three-story facility is home to the College of Natural Sciences’ School of Life Sciences and the Pacific Biosciences Research Center.
Ernst S. Reese was a faculty member in the Department of Zoology from 1963 until his retirement in 2002.
The study culminates nearly 40 years of research on Hawaiʻi Island, spearheaded by School of Life Sciences Emeritus Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois.
Priority will be given to students who apply by April 29.
The 2023 edition evaluates graduate schools on a variety of factors, including research activity, expert assessment scores and doctoral degrees awarded.
The project also aims to educate the next generation of diverse scientists and the public about integrative biological research.
Organizers hope to host the 1,000-tree giveaway event sometime in November 2022.
The project will examine how symbiotic microbes contribute to the efficiency of food webs, and how food webs determine the composition of symbiotic microbes.
Participation from the public can help protect the world’s threatened species from becoming extinct.