{"id":84583,"date":"2018-09-18T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=84583"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:45:47","slug":"funding-climbs-for-uh-manoa-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/18\/funding-climbs-for-uh-manoa-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding climbs for world-class UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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HOT<\/abbr> team members deploying water sampling equipment. (Credit: Tara Clemente)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> got a boost in hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and private funding in support of its world-class research. Extramural funding at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa increased 2.4 percent, to $301,095,266, in fiscal budget year 2018.<\/p>\n

This comes on the heels of fiscal year 2017, when research funding decreased 4.7 percent from the previous year. Competition for research funding had been increasing following the 2008 recession.<\/p>\n

“This is a testament to the incredible work of our world-class researchers, scientists and faculty and their dedication to the pursuit of knowledge in their disciplines,” said Vice Chancellor for Research Michael Bruno<\/strong>. “The research being done at M\u0101noa is having a direct impact on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the world, while providing invaluable opportunities for experiential learning to our graduate and undergraduate students.”<\/p>\n

The research funding was attracted by 29 schools, colleges and units at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (SOEST<\/abbr>) accounted for $93,144,266 in 2018, up about 15 percent from 2017. A high profile example from SOEST<\/abbr> is the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Ocean Time-series (HOT<\/abbr>) program<\/a> that received $9 million from the National Science Foundation. For the past 30 years, the HOT<\/abbr> program in the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, has provided a decades-long record of how the ocean responds to climate change in one of the best-sampled places in the world.<\/p>\n

Another example is a $1-million donation from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support a groundbreaking project by a cross-disciplinary team of UH<\/abbr> researchers, led by Margaret McFall-Ngai<\/strong>, director of the UH<\/abbr> Pacific Biosciences Research Center<\/a>. The project establishes the Waimea watershed on the north shore of Oʻahu<\/span>, as a model microbiome mesocosm<\/a>, a study site small enough to thoroughly investigate but large enough to reveal the complexities of natural systems.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> was awarded $2.1 million in funding from the USDA<\/abbr>\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The Children\u2019s Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region<\/a> has decreased the prevalence of obesity in the Pacific.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is one of 115 institutions classified as R1: Research Universities by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and is recognized as a land-, sea- , sun- and space-grant institution. The university is also classified by the Carnegie Foundation as having “very high research activity.”<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is recognized internationally for its pioneering research in oceanography, astronomy, earth sciences, Pacific Islands and Asian area studies, linguistics, education, tropical agriculture, cancer and genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal and private funding at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa increased 2.4 percent, to $301,095,266, in fiscal budget year 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[142,212,149,92,9],"class_list":["post-84583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-award","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-pacific-biosciences-research-center","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t