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ASCC-CNR Summer Interns Present on Research Projects
September 8, 2015
Each summer, the Community and Natural Resources (CNR) division of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) makes available summer internships for students majoring in its four areas of instruction – Agribusiness, Family & Consumer Sciences, General Agriculture, and Natural Resources. As ASCC-CNR’s 2015 Local Summer Internship Program drew to a close at the beginning of the fall 2015 semester, staff, family and friends attended a special presentation by the interns on the projects they had focused on for the past eight weeks.
ASCC-CNR Hosts STEP-UP Student Science Symposium
August 9, 2015
Earlier this month, eight of the Territory’s most promising high school Science students showcased their individual projects during the STEP-UP High School Summer Research Symposium, held at the Community and Natural Resources (CNR) division of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC). The students had spent the previous eight weeks working with mentors at ASCC-CNR and other local agencies on self-designed projects focused on health and environmental issues.
ASCC-CNR Research Aims to Improve American Samoa's Taro
July 29, 2015
Scientists still cannot explain the 1993 arrival in these islands of the taro leaf blight, a leaf disease caused by a fungus, but once here, it quickly spread by wind and rain to all of American Samoa and Samoa, decimating all the traditional varieties of taro grown here at the time. Fortunately, disease-resistant varieties of taro from Asia and other parts of the Pacific were subsequently introduced to all of Samoa to replace the traditional varieties, but research continues in pursuit of new species of taro ideally suited to our unique environment.
ASCC-CNR Research Aims to Alleviate Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
June 8, 2015
With public concern growing over illnesses spread by mosquitoes, the Entomology Lab at the Community and Natural Resources (CNR) division of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) continues its research to better understand these insects with an aim to mitigating their role as carriers of disease in the Territory.
ASCC-CNR Hosts Summer Interns from US Pacific
June 2, 2015
With its verdant landscape and ideal growing conditions for Pacific flora, American Samoa makes an ideal laboratory for the study of Tropical Agriculture. Five students from across the US Pacific will spend just under three weeks this month familiarizing themselves with the research, instruction, and extension programs underway at the Community & Natural Resources (CNR) division of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC), as well as some of the major research entities in the Territory, as part of the 2015 Summer Experiential Learning Program, hosted for the first time by ASCC-CNR.
ASCC-CNR EFNEP Takes Healthy Cuisine to Community
April 22, 2015
The Community & Natural Resources (CNR) Division of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) offers a number of regular classroom courses for students, but its staff also makes regular excursions into the community to make learning available to the general public. One such community-oriented initiative is the Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), which involves CNR staff taking information on nutrition, healthy cooking, and healthy lifestyles directly to American Samoa’s villages, community groups, public centers and businesses.
ASCC-CNR Hosts Annual CHL Meeting
June 6, 2014
The Children’s Healthy Living (CHL) Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region concluded its fourth annual meeting earlier this month, an event sponsored by the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Community & Natural Resources (CNR) division, the local CHL partner.
ASCC-ACNR to Host Annual CHL Meeting
May 30, 2014
The American Samoa arm of CHL is the Community & Natural Resources (CNR) division of the American Samoa Community College, where efforts have been underway for the past two years to engage the community in awareness of childhood obesity and steps that can be taken to mitigate it. CNR will welcome to the Territory representatives from the above-mentioned regions when it hosts the Fourth Annual CHL Conference, beginning this Saturday, June 7th, and concluding on Friday, June 13th.
ASCC Student Attends Guam Conference on Sustainability
May 13, 2014
Ms. Mona Chang, a student at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) carries a double major in Nursing and Health Science, serves as the current President of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, and has also taken an active role in the newly established International Students Organization. Even with all this activity on campus, for Ms. Chang the highlight of the spring 2014 semester was a trip to Guam late last month to represent American Samoa at the Regional Island Sustainability Conference, sponsored by the University of Guam’s Center for Island Sustainability (CIS).
ASCC-CNR and UH Sea Grant to Host "Building Capacity in Aquaponics" Workshop
May 2, 2014
The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Department of Community and Natural Resources (CNR), in partnership with the University of Hawai‘i’s Sea Grant College Program, is proud to host a workshop aimed at building capacity in aquaponics. This workshop will be held at the ASCC CNR’s conference room, with the hands-on portion taking place at the ASCC CNR’s Center for Sustainable Integrated Agriculture and Aquaculture (CSIAA) from May 12-14, 2014.