April 26, 2026

$3.5M donated to UH to support ethnomusicology program

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The Barbara Barnard Smith Foundation fund donated $3.5 million to the University of Hawaii’s music department.

The money will go toward creating an endowed chair and two additional faculty positions, according to a news release. It will also support revitalizing UH’s ethnomusicology department.


What You Need To Know

    • The $3.5 million donation will go towards creating an endowed chair and two additional faculty positions
    • It will also support revitalizing UH’s ethnomusicology department
  • Barbara Smith was a beloved UH Manoa professor who died in 2021; she helped found UH’s ethnomusicology program, one of the first in the nation
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