Leading by example, the University’s Principal Professor LouiseRichardson announced during the event that it is to establishanewscholarship, as aweddinggift to the couple.
The Director of the National Science Foundation (metallurgist Arden L. Bement) shall establisha Federal Cyber Scholarship-for-Service program which will apply to 1, 000 students that will receive free-ride scholarships plus stipends and internships.
While in the city Ono was made a Doctor of Laws by the University of Liverpool in recognition of her work as a conceptual artist, and for the John Lennon Memorial Scholarship which she helped establish in 1991.