Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences at UH Manoa

Join us for Darwin Day on Feb 12 from 1:30-5:30pm at the PEPS Insect Museum, Gilmore Hall room 607.
Open to the public! Come learn about insects, win prizes and enjoy refreshments.

https://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/manoa/2026/02/12/45023.html?et_id=58608

PEPS graduates and their proud faculty at the 2025 Fall UHM Convocation. Amy Hill shared her words of wisdom with the graduates as the keynote speaker.
Congratulations to Fall graduates!! 🥳🎓

University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa - Graduate Division College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience at UH-Manoa

PEPS faculty, students, and staff build camaraderie with white elephant gift exchange at our annual department-wide holiday party! 🥳 🦋

University of Hawaii at Manoa

8 students from PEPS/TAE are pre-celebrating their Fall graduation at the 2025 College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience at UH-Manoa (CTAHR) convocation!

University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa - Graduate Division

Check out the Insect Art Show presented by PEPS Insect Museum at Honolulu Printmakers from now through Dec 5, 2025!

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/11/17/insect-museum-art/

Packed crowd ‘buzzes’ for UH Insect Museum’s debut art show | University of Hawaiʻi System News More than 50 pieces from local artists are being shown in Honolulu, drawing a packed crowd from the arts, science and community members curious about insects.

PEPS at Discover Manoa this past Saturday 11/15!
Mahalo to our helpers and those who stopped by to learn about our cool department! 🦋🌱🦠

Our annual PEPS Pumpkin Carving Contest!
1st Place: Melzer lab!
2nd Place: Luis lab!
3rd Place: Sipes lab!

We also had PEPS winners at the CTAHR Fall Fair Halloween Contest!

Thank you for your participation 🎃

Kyle Austin, Entomology Ph.D. student, was featured at Hawaiian Airlines 'hana hou' magazine V28: Aug-Sep 2025 where his research on Hawaii's native moths captures the notion that these moths are surprising, strange and increasingly hard to find.

After the APS meeting, several groups of plant pathologists visited our PEPS plant pathology labs! We had visitors from North Dakota State University, University of Georgia, UC Davis, University of the Philippines Diliman, and Ohio State University.

Dr. Marian Luis was an invited speaker for Impact on Food Security and Disease Management from the front lines at Plant Health 2025.

Dr. Brent Sipes gave a talk as Phytopathologist of Distinction (POD) at the 2025 Plant Health Conference, sharing a plethora of plant-parasitic nematodes on tropical crops in Hawaii.