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The future of a lucky music student at UH Maui College will glow a little brighter thanks to a $3,000 contribution by the Hula Honeys. » More

HONOLULU – UH Institute for Astronomy (IfA) researcher R. Brent Tully made world news when he identified the full extent of our home supercluster of 100 thousand galaxies and named it Laniakea. The recipient of numerous prestigious astronomical awards, he has chosen to build on IfA’s global prominence by using $264,000 of his prize money to establish the R. Brent Tully Distinguished Visitors Endowed Fund for the Institute for Astronomy. » More

Retired UH Mānoa professor Dr. Jim Carpenter and wife Jeanne have created scholarships to help students learn to help animals. » More

Matthew Therrien, an aspiring English major at UH Hilo, dreamed of becoming an English professor. He was a gifted poet, greatly loved son, and treasured friend at the time of his tragic death in a car accident April 6, 2014. » More

Dr. Lawrence K. W. Tseu has created a nursing scholarship in honor of Shelley Wilson to help veterans and their families transition to careers in nursing. » More

Hawai‘i Supreme Court Associate Justice Simeon Acoba Jr. (retired) and wife Carolyn C. Acoba recently endowed a scholarship at the William S. Richardson School of Law. » More

HAWAI‘I - The Ford Foundation has awarded $190,000 to the University of Hawai‘i Foundation to support the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo’s College of Hawaiian Language, Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlani and two other significant language projects. » More

The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation has committed $25,000 to the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) at the UH Mānoa Shidler College of Business. » More

The UH Mānoa Athletics Department has received $1.2 million from an anonymous donor, which will benefit 22 sports programs – including cheerleading and the band. » More

Thanks to the generosity and vision of the James and Juanita C. Wo Foundation, seven outstanding UH Community College faculty and staff have been selected as the 2015 Wo Global Learning Champions. » More

HONOLULU – Alison Brown-Carvalho lost her husband William Brown to pancreatic cancer in 2009, after 16 years of marriage. A few years later she lost her mother, Janet (Ikeda) Shitabata, to stomach cancer. » More

The University of Hawai’i’s John A. Burn School of Medicine (JABSOM) has received a generous $5 million pledge from the Kosasa family, the founders of ABC Stores. » More