Impact on Research
Support from donors unleashes the incredible potential of a brilliant researcher. It is the partnership between donor, faculty, and students that creates new knowledge and transforms lives in Hawaiʻi and the world.
Each day, hundreds of faculty members and students throughout the state are engaged in groundbreaking research in areas as diverse as astronomy, cancer studies, teacher training and education, ethnic and cultural studies, government and public policies, ocean and earth science, international relations, high technology development, and business development in general.
In an increasingly competitive world, universities cannot rely solely on government funding to support research. It is the investment and vision of private donors that fuels the groundbreaking stages of research - research that may then be supported by government funding.
Annual Gifts Fund Fascinating Fieldwork
The Arts & Sciences Expanding the Student Experience Fund has allowed students to pursue extraordinary research in their fields. Here is Man "Beryl" Yang's report after her trip to Beijing, China, and Northwestern provinces, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, Qinghai and Gansu. Her fieldwork focused on Hua'er, a grassroots folksong tradition.
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Language, Cognition & Questions on Testing
Ambitious, globally connected doctoral students in the College of Language, Linguistics and Literature at UH Mānoa are receiving financial support so they can focus on their dissertations, conduct field research and complete their course work.
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$3.58M Advances Mesothelioma Research
Mesothelioma is a cancer of the cells that line the chest and abdominal cavities. A $3.58-M gift to the UH Cancer Center
will help them remain at the forefront of thoracic oncology research.
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Understanding Neurodegenerative Disorders
The world just got a little closer to understanding and treating neurodegenerative disorders thanks to the Litchman family.
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Venture Funding Fuels UH Research
The Upside Fund's $100,000 will be used to fund the additional work to isolate and sequence these proteins.
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The Frontier of Modern Biological Science
Coral reef ecosystems provide value to coastal communities at an estimated net benefit of $29.8 billion a year from tourism,
fisheries, coastal protection, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration.
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Research from Cellular to Global Scale
In 2008 Professor David Karl was named the recipient of a $3.79 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation to continue and expand research on the microbial inhabitants of the world's oceans.
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Building the Future, Understanding the Past
The Henry Luce Foundation's Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archeology and Early History made an investment in
understanding our past by awarding $500,000 to the Department of Anthropology.
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