An art exhibition in Honolulu is synthesizing Hawaiʻi's vibrant colors and cultural influences. HPR’s Noe Tanigawa reports, former Hawaiʻi resident Susan Maddux seeks out colors in nature and allows them to fold into fresh shapes.
In 2017 UConn horticulture professor Gerald Berkowitz and a group of 40 students toured the facilities of Curaleaf, one of Connecticut’s four medical marijuana producers, and picked up an interesting tidbit.
“The CEO of the company was saying that he could never find any [job applicants] that had any knowledge of cannabis horticulture,” Berkowitz said. “In fact, there were no programs or anything in the country to address that.”
About two years later, Berkowitz established UConn’s first cannabis horticulture course through the university’s School of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The course was immediately popular with students, some of whom have parlayed that education into internships and jobs with cannabis companies.