The event drew a record 200 participants and prizes totaling $8,000 were distributed in eight categories to teams who had just 24 hours to build an app.
Nanaue the Teenage Sharkman follows Jocelyn, an isolated pre-teen, who journeys underwater with the legendary half-shark, half-man Hawaiian god, Nanaue.
David Arakawa surveyed peer reviewed literature to identify candidate genes associated with bird beak shapes and identified 10 genes that have shown repeated associations with beak shapes and patterns.
The Global Genome Initiative has provided funding for graduate student Jeffery Stallman to gather samples from all native plants in the Aster (daisy family) found on Hawaiʻi Island.
The annual meeting attracted more than 400 people, including environmental engineers, wastewater system operators and other personnel in water, wastewater and water quality fields.
Kevin Cho, a UH Mānoa computer engineering senior, has been honored with the 2018 Student Engineer of the Year Award by the Hawaiʻi Council of Engineering Societies.
Winners of the UH President’s Green Initiative Awards were honored in a ceremony on February 8 as part of the Hawaiʻi Sustainability in Higher Education Summit.
UH Mānoa law student Chad Au helped the Legal Aid Society of Hawaiʻi to add a chat-bot to its website that enables online visitors to get easier and faster help with their legal questions.
Films produced by Waiʻanae High School students, aided by Academy for Creative Media at UH WestOʻahu mentors, received outstanding reviews at the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Forum.