{"id":85297,"date":"2018-09-27T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T23:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=85297"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T01:54:14","slug":"fundraising-coleman-scholarship-passes-halfway-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/27\/fundraising-coleman-scholarship-passes-halfway-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising in honor of late Native Hawaiian astronomer passes halfway mark"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_76437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76437\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-memorandum-paul-coleman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-memorandum-paul-coleman.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-memorandum-paul-coleman-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Coleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is delighted to announce that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/coleman-endowed-scholarship\/\"><strong>Paul H.I. Coleman<\/strong> Scholarship fund<\/a> is now more than halfway to the goal of raising a $100,000 endowment to support local high school graduates who choose to study astronomy at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated in July with a generous $35,000 founding gift from Newton and Roberta Chu, the fund has almost doubled with new gifts from Hilo businessman Barry Taniguchi and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman was the first Native Hawaiian to earn a <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD<\/abbr> in astronomy. When he returned home to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> he became a model for many Native Hawaiian and local students, inspiring them as he generously shared his passion to seek answers to some of humankind\u2019s fundamental question through the study of the heavens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/19\/in-memoriam-paul-coleman\/\">In memoriam: Paul Coleman, tireless advocate for astronomy in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a>, March 19, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Astronomers lead the quest for knowledge about our universe, the stars and the possibility of life on other planets,&rdquo; noted Lassner. &ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is the best place on earth to study astronomy, and we simply must provide many more opportunities for local students to undertake this noble inquiry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Paul worked tirelessly to bring together the Native Hawaiian and astronomy communities,&rdquo; added Taniguchi. &ldquo;President Lassner and I are extremely grateful to Roberta and Newton for leading the way in honoring Paul with a scholarship in his name that will make a difference in our futures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Chus, Lassner and Taniguchi urge others to help reach the goal of $100,000. To make a donation to the Paul H.I. Coleman Scholarship fund, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.uhfoundation.org\/funds\/20901603\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a>, or contact Carla Kuo, (808) 932-7696.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paul H.I. Coleman Scholarship will support local high school graduates who choose to study astronomy at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[35,572,319,9],"class_list":["post-85297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85297","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=85297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85297\/revisions\/85302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}