{"id":185293,"date":"2023-10-19T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=185293"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:58:24","slug":"october-presidents-report-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/19\/october-presidents-report-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"October President\u2019s report: Lahainaluna scholarship extended, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_58995\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SgxtsVeVSeE?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"October 2023 President\u2019s report: Lahainaluna scholarship extended, more\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>President David Lassner announced an anonymous donation to extend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/19\/uh-lahainaluna-scholarship\/\">one-year scholarship to Lahainaluna High School students<\/a> who have been impacted by the devastating August 8 wildfire. The update was part of the president\u2019s report at the monthly Board of Regents meeting held at <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College on October 19.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_184865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-deng-wu-lab-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"two scientists working in lab\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-deng-wu-lab-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-deng-wu-lab-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-deng-wu-lab.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youping Deng and Lang Wu working in the lab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lassner also explained <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s extensive involvement in the state\u2019s broadband initiative and announced two recently awarded federal grants to <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/18\/uh-hilo-to-lead-n-nalrc\/\">$6.6 million to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo to establish a National Native Language Resource Center<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/10\/pacific-center-for-genome-research\/\">$10.9 million to establish the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Pacific Center for Genome Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lahaina wildfire (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SgxtsVeVSeE?t=21s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Federal support for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SgxtsVeVSeE?t=32s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Lahainaluna High scholarships extended (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SgxtsVeVSeE?t=1m30s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/18\/uh-hilo-to-lead-n-nalrc\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo National Native Language Resource Center<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SgxtsVeVSeE?t=9m57s\">video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/10\/pacific-center-for-genome-research\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Pacific Center for Genome Research<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SgxtsVeVSeE?t=11m13s\">video)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/presidents-report\/\">See previous president&#8217;s reports to the Board of Regents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185260\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hilo-nnalrc-grant-1.jpg\" alt=\"teacher and preschool students\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hilo-nnalrc-grant-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hilo-nnalrc-grant-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hilo-nnalrc-grant-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preschool-age keiki in class at <span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> P&#363;nana Leo. (Photo credit: <span aria-label=\"Oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> <abbr>TV<\/abbr>, Bryson Hoe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lassner also explained <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s extensive involvement in the state\u2019s broadband initiative and announced two recently awarded federal grants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,12],"tags":[72,61,62,63,64,65,394,1120,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-185293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-video","tag-board-of-regents","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidents-office","tag-presidents-report","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185325,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185293\/revisions\/185325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}