Hi, I’m Kathy Muneno and welcome to "Discover UH." As a past graduate of the university, it’s an honor for me to host a program that showcases the many amazing contributions that the University of Hawaii makes in our state and in the global community.

Malaria is a deadly disease that threatens 40 percent of the world’s population. Dr. Sandra Chang and her team from John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH

UH researchers DeWolfe Miller and Robert Littman are studying the causes of death and disease in Egyptian mummies.

Daniel Ling, an electrical engineering student at UH, is designing a device to detect glucose levels for diabetics, without pricking fingers!

Moi is a delicious fish once fed to Hawaiian royalty, but its population is at dangerously low levels. UH Sea Grant is experimenting with open-ocean mariculture. They've successfully grown moi at depths of 50 to 100 feet in an offshore "sea cage."

A ground-breaking international partnership between two Iraqi universities pair UH professors like Samir El-Swaify (el-Sw-eye-fi) and Eklhass (e-CLOSS) Jarjees (jarGEEZ) with top Iraqi students.

As a UH graduate student, Dr. Jill Zamzow discovered that over 90 percent of day-active coral reef fish have naturally occurring sunscreen equivalent to SPF 15.