Megan Smith, PhD student, NSF Graduate Research FellowshipMentors: Drs. Dan Hartline and Petra Lenz Madelief Schelvis, PhD student, 49th Annual Tester Symposium, Honorable Mention, Graduate Student TalkMentor: Dr. Robert Richmond Princess Jena Santiago, MS student, 2025 U.S. NSF GRFP competition, Honorable…
We are thrilled to share that our Voice of the Sea episode Pacific Biosciences Research Center won a Bronze Telly Award for Television programming in Science & Technology! These Telly Awards are a tremendous honor and reflect the amazing scientific, community, and conservation work we…
Children ages two to eight years across 11 Pacific jurisdictions—including Hawaiʻi—are not meeting daily recommended intakes for key micronutrients (essential vitamins and minerals needed in small amounts for health), either consuming too much or too little. That discovery was published…
Title: Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science, and TechnologyHiring Unit: Office of the Provost, ManoaPosition Number: 0089288Date Posted: September 25, 2024 Closing Date: Continuous recruitment. For first consideration, submit application by October 30, 2024 as review of applications will begin on…
The new paper, “Bacterial envelope polysaccharide cues settlement and metamorphosis in the biofouling tubeworm Hydroides elegans,” was published in July 2024 in the Nature journal Communications Biology. Authors: Marnie L. Freckelton , Brian T. Nedved and Michael G. HadfieldKewalo Marine…
PBRC researcher Rob Cowie was a co-author on a 2022 study published in the journal Biological Reviews that suggested as many as 150,000 to 260,000 of all known species could have perished since roughly 1500. This publication was recently featured…
Click to view the 30-second episode trailer! On TV: K5 Sun June 23rd at 6pm & Sat June 29th at 6pm HST! In this episode of Voice of the Sea, we're exploring the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) at UH Mānoa. We…
Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers set out to answer in a…
A national center of excellence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is doing much more than groundbreaking biomedical research. The Integrative Center for Environmental Microbiomes and Human Health (ICEMHH) is building infrastructure and capacity to better Hawaiʻi’s human, environmental…
Assistant Professor Peter Washington from the Information and Computer Sciences Department, a recipient of Core Bucks through the Precision Nutrition COBRE Core Bucks Program, recently received a $2.18-million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use AI to diagnose mental health conditions. The…
