University of Hawaii Honors S. Ann Dunham with Endowment Fund

We were thrilled to learn that the University of Hawaii Foundation will honor President Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, with an endowment fund. The fund will "will support a professorship in the UH Anthropology Department that will focus on research and teaching on Southeast Asia," the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports. Dunham, who died in 1995, received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Hawaii and Duke University Press published her book, Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, posthumously last year.