The Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund supports graduate students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, “particularly those working in biocultural and medical anthropology”.[1] The UHM Campus Arboretum has an Akee tree (Blighia sapida) as a memorial namesake tree dedicated with a plaque to Dr. Etkin; the species chosen reflects her research interest in cultural plant exchanges between Africa and the Caribbean. A special issue of the newsletter of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology collected testimonials from her students and colleagues.[2]