Community support, risk awareness may lower hypertension rates
Research was led by Catherine Pirkle and Tetine Sentell in the Office of Public Health Studies at the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.
How submarine groundwater affects coral reef growth
UH Mānoa researchers find that corals can thrive on submarine groundwater discharge impacted reefs if isolated from secondary stressors such as competition from seaweeds and sedimentation.
New energy harvesting method is game changer for self-powered devices
UH Mānoa 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 Mānoa'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
UH researchers 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 Mānoa 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 Mānoa 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.
