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Most Successful Volunteer Campaign for an Endowed Chair at UH

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - Volunteer leadership in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation has launched the most successful campaign initiative ever undertaken at the Foundation to raise funds to establish an endowed chair The Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals. » More

Grant to Create World’s Most Advanced Lab Researching Star and Planet Formation and Evolution

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation has received a $1.5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support the creation of a new cosmochemistry laboratory whose center piece will be a state-of-the-art ion microprobe. » More

Endowment Gift to Provide Financial Support for Undergraduate Economic Students

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The Chris Grootaert Endowed Scholarship Fund has been established at the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a $62,000 pledge to the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation. The fund was established by Dr. » More

Funds Raised During Reunion Dinner of 130 Alumni in Hong Kong

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - More than 130 University of Hawaiʻi alumni gathered for a reunion dinner in Hong Kong during which more than 30,000HD (approximately $4,000) was donated in support of flood relief efforts for Hamilton Library at UH Mānoa.

Gift to Fund Post-Production Editing Suite and Student Internships and Awards

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation has received a $100,000 gift from Roy and Hilda Takeyama, former UH Board of Regent and alumna, respectively, for the UH Academy for Creative Media (ACM). » More

Web Site Tool Designed to Connect more than 250,000 Alumni Worldwide with Each Other and Their University

Fellowship Award from San Diego-based Company Adds to Industrial Affiliate Program

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Engineering has received a gift of $25,000 from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to support graduate student fellowships.

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation announces three appointments to its development team and three staff promotions in other areas of its operations. » More

Award to be used to Introduce Social Enterprise Award Category

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi Business Plan Competition will be strengthened by a three-year, $300,000 investment by The Case Foundation, a charitable foundation established by AOL co-founder and Hawaiʻi native Steve Case.

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The David H. Murdock Institute for Business and Culture recently donated $50,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa through the UH Foundation for flood relief efforts at Hamilton Library. The institute is the private foundation of David H. Murdock, chairman and CEO of Dole Food Company and Castle & Cooke, Inc.

Eight Alumni to be Honored with One of the Most Prestigious Awards a UH Graduate Can Receive

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi and the University of Hawaiʻi Alumni Association (UHAA) recently announced this year’s recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA). » More

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). » More