{"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":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Paul Coleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> is delighted to announce that the 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 糖心视频<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

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 糖心视频<\/abbr> President David Lassner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Coleman was the first Native Hawaiian to earn a PhD<\/abbr> in astronomy. When he returned home to Hawaiʻi<\/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