§307-1 Establishment of the research corporation; purpose. There is established as a body corporate, "The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii". The research corporation shall be a public instrumentality and shall be a part of the University of Hawaii for administrative purposes pursuant to section 26-35.

The purposes of the research corporation shall include, but not be limited to the promotion of all educational, scientific, and literary pursuits by encouraging, initiating, aiding, developing, and conducting training, research, and study in the physical, biological, and social sciences, and humanities, and all other branches of learning by encouraging and aiding in the education and training of persons for the conduct of such training, investigations, research, and study, by the furnishing of means, methods, and agencies by which the training, investigation, research, and study may be conducted, by assisting in the dissemination of knowledge by establishing, aiding, and maintaining professorships, or other staff positions, fellowships, scholarships, publications, lectures, by other means to make the benefits of training, investigations, research, and study available to the public; and by any and all other acts reasonably designed to promote the above purposes in the interest of promoting the general welfare of the people of the State. [L 1965, c 209, pt of §1; Supp, §44-100; HRS §307-1; am L 1997, c 185, §1]