UH stands to receive
$400M for research
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is on track to get as much as $400 million in research and training grants and contracts this fiscal year, Interim University of Hawaii Vice President for Research James Gaines told the Board of Regents yesterday.
Gaines made the statement as regents approved $47,304,177 in gifts, grants and contracts obtained between Sept. 16 and Oct. 15.
Gaines cautioned that the $400 million mark is an optimistic goal. But since the start of the fiscal year in July through October, Gaines said, the university has obtained more than $140 million in research and training grants.
The grants for September and October include more than $14 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Pacific Biomedical Research Center, Cancer Research Center, School of Medicine and other medical researchers; and nearly $6 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Regents were also told that a proposal for an Academy of Creative Media will be presented for their approval at the next board meeting in January. The academy is the first step in offering a degree program for film. Chris Lee, a former president of production for Columbia-Tristar studio, has been working with University of Hawaii professor Glenn Cannon to start the program.
"It's a development deal," Lee said. "It's kind of like that."