- Call for Abstracts: 2025 SURE Symposium
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites undergraduate students to submit abstracts for the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Symposium. Event Details: Date: Friday, August 1, 2025Location: Hawai‘i Imin International Conference CenterFormat: In-person oral and poster presentations (group and individual) Schedule of Activities Please see below for a tentative schedule …
- Showcase Your Achievements: Submit Projects and Photos for the School of Life Sciences Annual Highlights Report
Help Us Celebrate the Achievements of the School of Life Sciences! This year, the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa wants to highlight the outstanding research, teaching, and service projects led by our faculty, staff, and students. We invite you to share your recent project accomplishments for inclusion in our …
- Sophomore Success TRACs
The 8-week Sophomore Success TRACS summer program will provide accelerated learning and research experiences for mid-level undergraduate students each summer term. Students will enroll in degree-required STEM courses for credit, participate in faculty-driven research projects, and attend weekly advising and development workshops. The following students are encouraged to apply: Transferring STEM students from the UH CC …
- Faculty position advertised: Assistant Professor in Plant Genomics and Herbarium Director
The School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa is recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Plant Genomics and Herbarium Director. Application review begins November 15, 2023. See more
- 2022 City Nature Challenge this Weekend
This year’s City Nature Challenge begins tomorrow, running from April 29 through May 2! To participate, one simply needs to make natural history observations on O‘ahu (including our surrounding waters and offshore islets) and upload them to the iNaturalist platform during the weekend-long observation period. Following this, you can participate further by helping to identify the observations that have been …
- Drs. Chong and Porter featured on Hawaii Public Radio
Check out the March 29, 2022 edition of The Conversation on HPR to hear Drs. Becky Chong and Megan Porter discuss their work on Hawaiian lava tube biodiversity. Listen to the conversation here.
- Award winning book published by SoLS faculty
Professor Mark Merlin’s recent book Plants and People of the Marshall Islands (Keinikkan im Ri-Aelōn Kein) has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Mary W. Klinger Book Award, given annually by the Society for Economic Botany for an outstanding book published in the discipline of Economic/Ethno Botany. Congratulations to Dr. Merlin and co-authors! Keinikkan Im Ri-Aelōn …
- The Power of Celibacy
SoLS faculty Amber Wright talks about our local all-female gecko species, Lepidodactylus lugubris, in this BBC Discovery episode. From the podcast description, “A virgin birth may be miraculous to us, but for some species it’s a winning evolutionary strategy. Lucy Cooke meets nature’s ultimate self-cloning sisters.” Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz9fs
