Impact on Facilities

To effectively compete, UH facilities must offer state-of-the-art technological infrastructure to support research and provide new opportunities for teaching and learning. Funding for facilities creates comfortable living and studying facilities, first-rate libraries, and an enriched campus life that are central to the student experience.

New and well-maintained facilities inspire achievement; improve faculty retention; facilitate cutting-edge technology, innovation, and research; and build pride in our university. By improving our facilities, we equip our faculty to teach, our researchers to find solutions to global challenges, and our students to flourish.

Rescuing Hawaiʻi's endangered plants by expanding Lab

In January 2011, the Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation pledged $600,000 to support the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum's Micropropagation Lab capital improvement project. Their gift will develop significantly greater lab capacity and enhance the critical rescue and recovery work they do to save the rarest of Hawaiʻi's native plants.
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Orvis Donors Make Music Happen

In November 2009, the UH Mānoa Dept. of Music unveiled its newly renovated buildings and auditorium, thanks to a $1.3 million repair and maintenance project. Improvements included a classroom equipped with up-to-date audiovisual equipment (thanks to an anonymous donor); new paint and lighting; critical energy-saving upgrades to the roof; conversion of a storage room into a conference room; and renovated practice rooms.
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Industry Giant Mike Curb Makes Music Happen

Thanks to a substantial gift from the Mike Curb Family Foundation, the Honolulu Community College Music and Entertainment Learning Experience (MELE) program now offers students access to a state-of-the-art recording studio. In recognition of their generosity, the learning facility has been named the Mike Curb Music and Entertainment Learning Experience Studios.
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Transforming Athletics Facility to Realize its Potential

The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation donated $5 million to help transform Cooke Field, UH Mānoa's only on-campus, all-purpose track and field, football, soccer and recreational facility, to realize its potential as a center of student activity.
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Teaching and Research Facilities for Pharmacy School Students

The College of Pharmacy at UH Hilo is on track to move forward with the building of additional teaching and research facilities thanks to a 2009 $1 million gift from the J.M. Long Foundation.
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Building a World-Class Advanced Culinary Education

Culinary students from Hawaiʻi and around the world will soon be able to acquire a world-class advanced culinary education at the Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head.
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