News Releases
Hula Honeys Donate to Emma Veary Scholarship
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.
Award-Winning Hawai‘i Astronomer Funds Endowment To Bring Stars to UH
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.
Carpenters Endow UH Hilo & UH Mānoa Scholarships
Retired UH Mānoa professor Dr. Jim Carpenter and wife Jeanne have created scholarships to help students learn to help animals.
Gainsleys’ Gift Honors Matthew Therrien
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.
Shelley Wilson Nursing Scholarship to Help Veterans
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.
Acobas Endow UH Law School Scholarship
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.
UH Hilo and UH Mānoa receive support from Ford Foundation for Exceptional Hawaiian Language Programs
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.
Takitani Foundation Seeds Innovation Fellowship
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.
Donor Increases UH Athletics Gift to $2M
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.
First Wo Global Learning Champions Named
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.
Local Family Funds Cancer Research
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.
UH Board of Regents approves $5 million gift to medical school
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.
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