Ripple effects from UH Foundation's $341M endowment | University of Hawaiʻi System News
The UH Foundation endowment paid out more than $12 million to University of Hawaiʻi programs supporting students and faculty this past fiscal year. The tangible effects of these endowment investments are illustrated through the intertwined stories of L. Stephen Lau and Protecting Hawaiʻi‘s water Lau and his wife Virginia established the L. Stephen Lau Water Research Scholarship endowment in 2004 to further knowledge of Hawaiʻi’s natural waters. An emeritus professor of civil engineering at UH Mānoa, Lau was director of the UH Water Resources Research Center from 1971 to 1990. The...