News Releases
$10M gift helps address Kaua‘i’s physician shortage
The six-year, $10 million commitment from Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg will fund the new Kaua‘i Medical Training Track, a multi-pronged program on Kaua‘i to help address the physician shortage and improve access to healthcare services.
Oak Foundation seeds innovative UH Hilo youth mentoring program
The innovative tiered program is being developed at the UH Hilo Center for Place-Based Socioemotional Development, also known as The Hilo Center.
UH West Oʻahu accounting program receives $25K endowment
The gift from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Hawaiʻi supports students pursuing a degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting at UH West O’ahu.
HMSA’s $1M gift endows health economics professorship at UHERO
The $1 million donation established the HMSA Distinguished Endowed Professorship in Health Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) in the College of Social Sciences.
$50M gift aims to improve Hawaiʻi’s ocean health
The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST announced a seven-year $50 million commitment from Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, which will support various research groups within Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology - HIMB.
UH breaks ground on RISE entrepreneurship, student housing facility
The Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs (RISE), will be an innovation and entrepreneurship center/student housing facility located on the site of the former Atherton YMCA across University Avenue from UH’s flagship campus.
First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, Dods give $500K to UH RISE project
This substantial gift supports the UH Mānoa RISE project, a world-class innovation and entrepreneurship center coupled with student housing being built on the site of the former Atherton YMCA, across from the flagship campus.
JTB Goodwill Foundation endows Kapi‘olani CC Culinary Scholarship Fund with $40K donation
Gift will help provide support to aspiring hospitality students enrolled in Kapi‘olani Community College’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific.
KAI Hawaii gives $250,000 to UH College of Engineering to endow new sustainability program
KAI Hawaii Inc., a Honolulu-based structural and forensic engineering firm, has given $250,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi College of Engineering to endow a new Vertically Integrated Project, or VIP, related to sustainability and resilience.
UHA honors founder Max Botticelli through gift to support med students
University Health Alliance (UHA) Health Insurance has donated $1 million to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to support student learning.
Island Insurance Foundation gives $250,000 to UH RISE project
The gift from the Island Insurance Foundation raises the total of private donations for the RISE project to $1 million.
UH Foundation raises $245,639 on second-ever Giving Tuesday
The University of Hawaiʻi ʻohana answered the call to Come Together for the second UH Giving Tuesday.
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