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Jimmy and Jeanne Yagi Create A Living Legacy Honoring Parents  

Jimmy and Jeanne Yagi Create A Living Legacy Honoring Parents

Jimmy and Jeanne Yagi have made a $25,000 gift to establish the James S. and Kameko Yagi/Sadao and Bessie Y. Nishida endowed scholarship at UH Hilo to honor their parents.
 
Families Unite to Establish Scholarship Endowment  

Families Unite to Establish Scholarship Endowment

Students wishing to transfer to UH Mānoa from any of the seven community colleges in the University of Hawaiʻi system are eligible to get a boost from an endowed scholarship fund established by three local families known for their contributions to education.
 
Garden Dedicated at 'Imiloa Astronomy Center  

Garden Dedicated at ʻImiloa Astronomy Center

In late September, friends of UH Hilo and the Wongs came together at the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center on the campus of UH Hilo to dedicate a garden and honor the memory of Betsy Nip Wong and Kenneth Aloiau Wong.
 
Local Law Firm Funding Excellence  

Local Law Firm Funding Excellence

UH Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law alumni and Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher law firm associates and partners presented a check for $100,000 to establish the Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher Fund for Excellence which will provide scholarships for law students, sponsorship of the moot court program, and support for the Law School’s Real Property Lecture Series.
 
Ron Terry Gives Back to UHH Geography Department  

UH Hilo Graduate and Former Faculty Member Gives Back to Geography Department

Throughout his time as a student at UH Hilo from 1977-1980, Ron Terry pulled weeds at anthurium farms to pay his tuition. As the first member of his family to go to college, he appreciated attending a smaller school, even staying for a time in the home of a faculty member.
 
HMSA supports JABSOM effort  

HMSA Supports John Burns School of Medicine Effort to "Grow Our Own Healers"

The Hawaiʻi Medical Service Association (HMSA) has awarded two $75,000 grants to help expand the number of health care workers on the Neighbor Islands. The funds will support the Hawaiʻi /Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC) program, and will be distributed over the next two years.
 
Goto Foundation Seeks to Strenghthen ties between US and Japan  

Founded in Tragedy, the Goto Foundation Seeks to Strengthen Ties Between US and Japan

In 1899, a 27-year-old general store owner in the plantation town of Honokaʻa on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi had been working hard to help Japanese laborers understand their rights.
 
Weinman Fellows Meet New Dean  

Weinman Fellows Meet New Dean

The first day on the job for Hawaiʻi’s new medical school dean was better than he could have possibly expected. Task number one was an event where he met several students who plan to serve the community here in the Islands when they complete their studies at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
 
Angela Meixell, Chancellor, Windward Community College; Kitty Lagareta; Mitch DOlier, President and CEO, Harold H.K. Castle Foundation; David McClain, UH System President.  

Kitty Lagareta, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation Team up to Support Windward Community College

Kitty Lagareta believes in giving back to her community. Widely known and respected for her business successes, she has also been acknowledged throughout the years as a tireless worker on behalf of those in need.
 
Dr. Gerard Akaka, Diane Paloma, and 11 KCC scholarship recipients  

Celebrating the Queen’s Health Systems Native Hawaiian Health Training Scholarship for Kapiʻolani Community College

The Queen’s Health Systems has invested in the healthcare industry’s future through donating $25,000 for scholarships to KCC students enrolled in the health program.
 
Ned Shultz, Changdong Yuh, Sung Kim, Kyong Chung, Margaret Chung, Mrs. Sung Kim  

Celebrating the Korea Foundation’s $1 Million Award

When the Korea Foundation made a $1 million gift to the Center for Korean Studies at UH Mānoa for endowed professorships that will reside in various departments on campus, they also set in place a challenge.
 
Dean Peter Crouch, Galen Ho, Ty Aldinger,Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, Bob Putes, Donna Vuchinich, Alex Ho  

BAE Systems Supporting Engineering Scholarships

BAE Systems, Hawaiʻi’s largest defense contractor, recently presented a check for $107,000 for six scholarships at the College of Engineering.
 
HEC, UH and UHF leadership celebrate the gift  

Hawaiian Electric Supports Climate Change Commission

Mike May, president and CEO of the Hawaiian Electric Company presented UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw a check for $25,000 to support the work of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Climate Change Commission.
 
Dr. Miriam Stark consults with Ya Da  

Henry Luce Foundation — Forging the Future, Understanding the Past

The Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archeology and Early History awards $500,000 to the UH Mānoa Department of Anthropology.
 
Riley Wallace  

An Evening With Riley Wallace

Former Head Coach Riley Wallace may have retired, but his impact on the hearts and futures of UH athletes lives on.
 
Antone and Edene Vidinha  

Kauaʻi Students Living the Legacy

For over 19 years, the Antone and Edene Vidinha Charitable Trust, established to benefit the people of Kauaʻi, has been actively supporting students with an annual scholarship to Kauaʻi Community College.