UHM Emeritus Professor Establishes First Scholarship at Water Resource Research Center
(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - Dr. L. Stephen Lau and his wife Virginia have donated $35,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to establish the L. Stephen Lau Water Research Endowed Scholarship to benefit students and research at UHM's Water Resource Research Center (WRRC). The fund will be used to further the knowledge of Hawaiʻi's natural waters by providing scholarships to assist students enrolled in any discipline within the University of Hawaiʻi related to water resources. This is the first scholarship ever to be established at the WRRC.
"We are very grateful to the Dr. Lau and the Lau family for their continued support of the university and this very important water resources program," said Donna Vuchinich, president of the UH Foundation. "Endowed scholarships are investments which will result in greater prominence for the University of Hawaiʻi, which means better opportunities for students after graduation. So, above all, endowed scholarships are an investment in the students of the university."
Dr. Lau joined UHM in 1959 and is an emeritus professor of the College of Engineering and former director of the WRRC from 1971-1990. Virginia Lau was secretary of the Legal Education Department at Kapiʻolani Community College. Of their three children, two are UH graduates. Dr. Lau retired 10 years ago, but maintains an active relationship with the WRRC, which focuses on addressing the unique water and wastewater management problems and issues in Hawaiʻi and other Pacific islands.
For more information about the WRRC, visit http://www.wrrc.hawaii.edu.
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