Extraordinary Entomologist Remembered

"Hawaiʻi can be a difficult place to make ends meet, especially for students. I've have a hard time finding affordable housing, and I think this goes for UH students across the board. So donors are doing a real service to the academic community, recognizing students who are passionate about what they do, and giving them some extra support."   

Ilse H. Hardy established the D. Elmo Hardy Student Assistance Endowment in 2008 to honor in perpetuity her late husband Dr. D. Elmo Hardy (1914-2002).

Known as "one of the last polymaths of Diptera Systematics", Elmo, as he was known to most who knew him personally, was a teacher and mentor to students of entomology throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.

Over the nearly seven decades of active research, Dr. Hardy named and described nearly 2,000 species in 34 different families of Diptera or flies which were published in 437 articles and notes. Dr. Hardy may be considered the "father of Hawaiian Dipterology" and has inspired the research of many students of Diptera Systematics.

Through the D. Elmo Hardy Student Assistance Endowment, Dr. Hardy's profound academic legacy will ripple outward through the success of our future entomolygists extraordinaire. Funds from this endowment assist students with scholarships, awards, research, travel to conferences and other related expenses.