Monday, June 16, 2014
Simons Foundation Gives University of Hawaii $40M—Largest Gift of its Kind Ever
The Simons Foundation has given the University of Hawaii at Manoa $40 million—the largest gift of its kind the university has ever received— or marine life research.
UH Manoa Professors Edward DeLongand David Karl, of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, will be charged with leading the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes Ecology, or SCOPE, a program of the Simons Foundation’s Division of Life Sciences that aims to advance basic research in life sciences.
SCOPE hopes to further understand the microscopic organisms in seawater and how those creatures control the movement and exchange of energy and nutrients, from the surface of the water to the deep sea....