• Ecology

    Explore the relationship between plants and their environment across a diverse array of ecosystems

  • Plant Diversity

    Explore the systematics, evolution, and biogeography of plants, algae, and fungi

  • Conservation

    Explore rare species, invasive species, and ecological restoration

  • Ethnobotany

    Explore the relationship between plants and people

  • Marine Botany

    Explore the plant and algal life of the ocean

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News & Events

Please join us for the annual Graduate Research Proposal Symposium

Please join the Department of Botany of Friday, April 7 in St John 007 for our annual Graduate Research Proposal Symposium. Coffee will be available starting at 12:30, and the first presentation is at 1:00 p.m. We have five students presenting this year, including Emily Grave, Tiffany Lum, Jerry Koko, Noweo Kai, and Tim Kroessig. […]

April 5th

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Botany seminar with Dr. Camilo Mora, Thursday March 16th

Dr. Camilo Mora from the Mānoa geography department will be speaking at our botany seminar series at noon, this Thursday, March 16th, in St John 7. Dr. Mora will be presenting his talk titled, “We punch nature and it will punch us back: The feedbacks of climate change on people.” Please join us, Dr. Mora […]

March 15th

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Aleca Borsuk’s Botanical Research Featured in the Star Advertiser

Congratulations to Aleca Borsuk, an engineering major with a minor in botany, who was featured in the Star Advertiser today! Miss Borsuk is working on developing a way to grow nutritious leafy vegetables using energy efficient lighting, with limited space, and with faster than normal growth. This research is funded by Hawai‘i NASA Space Grant […]

February 24th

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Botany Seminar: The Flora of Samoa with Dr. Art Whistler

Welcome back to the Spring 2017 semester! We will kick off our Botany Seminar series with our first seminar of the semester on Thursday, January 19th, at noon in St. John room 7. Dr. Art Whistler will discuss the flora of Samoa. Dr. Whistler is a botanist whose field of expertise is the plants of […]

January 12th

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