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Hawaiʻi commits to student outcomes and joins Talent, Innovation, Equity states
Lumina Foundation established the Talent, Innovation, and Equity Partnership to give states an array of funding, research, and related support for achieving targeted improvements in higher education. The University of Hawaiʻi will improve in four areas, including educating a higher percentage of the state’s people.
$1M grant will kickstart Hawaiʻi’s next generation of farmers
The $1 million gift from American AgCredit and CoBank establishes a matching grant program that will help GoFarm Hawaiʻi graduates grow their agricultural businesses, which enhances food security, provides local fresh food and supports economic growth in the islands.
Honolulu CC receives $100,000 grant from Johnson Controls to train next generation of technical workforce
Johnson Controls Community College Partnership Program invests in local technical college programs to support thriving career paths, spur local economic development and narrow the global skilled labor gap.
UH students meet donors at first in-person event since COVID-19
Nearly 300 scholarship donors and their student recipients came together today for the first UHF Scholarship Celebration since the COVID-19 pandemic halted gatherings two years ago.
$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.