{"id":26210,"date":"2014-07-18T15:41:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=26210"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:57:37","slug":"uh-welcomes-hawaiis-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/18\/uh-welcomes-hawaiis-best\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> welcomes <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>\u2019s best"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jMtNTsBCNJk\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another wave of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s best and brightest are bound for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty local high school graduates who excelled in the classroom and on the college entrance exams were awarded <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents Scholarships. Ten incoming <abbr>UH<\/abbr> juniors were named Presidential Scholars for their academic achievement. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are students of both great achievement and great potential and great promise,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents Chair <strong>Randy Moore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26220\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/raps2014-regents-scholars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/raps2014-regents-scholars.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/raps2014-regents-scholars-260x163.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 Regents Scholars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26223\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/raps2014-presidential-scholars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/raps2014-presidential-scholars.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/raps2014-presidential-scholars-260x166.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 Presidential Scholars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">All of the scholars receive full tuition waivers, $4,000 a year and a $2,000, one-time, travel grant. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See photos from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157645763563624\/\">Regents and Presidential scholarship awards event<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;My family and I were really happy when we found out I received the award. It is just a really big honor,&rdquo; said Regent Scholar <strong>Jackie Kojima<\/strong>, who just graduated from Punahou. &ldquo;And it&#8217;s really just an exciting time and I am just so excited to attend the university.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Education nowadays is pretty expensive and if I hopefully go on to medical school, I know it is just going to get more expensive so it is a great financial relief and a great honor,&rdquo; added <strong>Bryson Nakatani<\/strong>, a Presidential Scholar and incoming junior at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are committed to their success, as we are for all our students, but they really get great attention and we are very happy to have <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s best and brightest attending our University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> campuses,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VIDEO<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/19\/scholarship-program-aims-to-keep-hawaiis-best\/\">The 2013 scholars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>VIDEO<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/20\/uh-recognizes-hawaiis-brightest\/\">The 2012 scholars<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like the scholarship winners that have come each year before them, these students are on a mission to make the most out of this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I one day hope to become a doctor so I am majoring in biology to go to medical school,&rdquo; said Regent Scholar and <span aria-label=\"Honokaa\">Honoka&#699;a<\/span> High graduate <strong>Malia Andrade Stout<\/strong>. &ldquo;And I am just really looking forward to learning as much as I possibly can.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am going to continue on through elementary education with my bachelor&#8217;s, and I am planning after that to go to my masters and then, hopefully on to my doctorate, in education,&rdquo; said <strong>Kaylie Chong<\/strong> a Presidential Scholar and incoming <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa junior.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher, so it could go either way, but now I am leaning towards medicine,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Regent Scholar and Punahou graduate <strong>Lynn Nguyen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Regent Scholars are looking forward to starting college life.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just the whole experience of being on my own without my parents for a little while, kind of get a feel for the real world,&rdquo; said Regent Scholar <strong>Luke Kimura<\/strong>, who just graduated from Baldwin High on Maui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> honored the 2014 University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Regents and Presidential Scholars for outstanding academic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12],"tags":[72,394,572,947,56],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-video","tag-board-of-regents","tag-presidents-office","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","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=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174281,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions\/174281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}