Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences at UH Manoa

09/01/2026

PEPS joined CTAHR New Student Orientation and greeted 120 students touring through our Gilmore facility: Plant Doctor Experience and Insect Museum on Aug 19, 2026. Led by Dr. Brent Sipes, the "Plant Doctor Experience" was exhibited by at least 14 faculty and graduate students. New students got to use inverted microscopes, phone microscopes, petri dish media and insect collection tubes to observe various plant diseases, soil microscopic flora and fauna, invasive ants, coconut rhinoceros beetles, etc., within a 15 min time frame, and take home some cool IPM stickers sponsored by CTAHR CARES' Aʻo E Nānā project.

09/01/2026

Several PEPS faculty joined CTAHR Admin to welcome the congressional delegation as well as Senate Ag Committee Staff Members to share the key findings of our projects.

08/07/2026

PEPS faculty and students attended the Plant Health Conference organized by American Phytopathological Society from August 1–4, 2026, in Providence, Rhode Island.

We are so proud of Jordie Ho as she won the 2nd Place in APS Student Elevator Pitch presentation for her exciting work on "Comparative Genomics and Morphological Analysis of Mites that Potentially Vector Emerging Plant Viruses in Hawai'i."

It is also a great time to meet PEPS graduates like Lily Buchholz (now Plant Medicine Student at University of Nebraska) and Philip Waisen (now Small Crop Advisor at UC A&R) at the meeting.

07/25/2026

PEPS' faculty Dr Cheng and Dr Luis guided undergraduate and high school students, respectively and won CTAHR Summer Research Institute Poster Symposium on July 24, 2026.

07/15/2026

PEPS' "Plant Doctors" table at the Hawaii State Farm Fair at Whitmore Village, July 11-12, 2026.

07/14/2026

PEPS students and faculty at the annual 2026 Society of Nematology meeting in Baltimore!

07/14/2026

07/03/2026

GA Saimon Caligayahan presents his MS exit seminar on the "Disease Survey and Management Options for Foliar Fungal Pathogens of Tomato in Hawaiʻi"! 🍅

05/21/2026

Congratulations to PEPS Graduate Assistant Landon Wong for receiving the Helen Jones Farrar ARCS Scholar Award and the Dr. Jacqueline Maly ARCS Scholar of the Year Award!
The Honolulu Chapter presented ARCS Scholar Awards to exceptional doctoral students in STEM fields at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa!

05/20/2026

TAE students and faculty get together at the end of the semester for a TAE Pauhana event at the Magoon Teaching facilities, turning the garden harvest from Magoon teaching plots into shelf stable pickles! What a fun way to celebrate harvest, graduation, and student incoming while learning how to make pickles!