Enoch and Windy Hwang Endowed Scholarship

Dr. Enoch Hwang, born in Hong Kong, traveled with his missionary parents at an early age to Jamaica and later moved to Vancouver, Canada where he received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University respectively. Dr. Hwang joined the computer science faculty at the La Sierra Campus of Loma Linda University in 1988. His fiancée, Windy, join him soon after from Hong Kong, and they were married that same year.

As the Associate and later the Director of Academic Computing, Dr. Hwang, together with Mr. Hilmer Besel, who started the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at La Sierra, brought the internet to La Sierra and applied for the university’s domain name www.lasierra.edu.

With just a short break at the University of California, Riverside where he received his Ph.D. and afterwards taught there for a few years, Dr. Hwang has dedicated almost all of his working life as a computer science educator at La Sierra University. What prevented him from saying “all” is the most important because that is when he met his future wife, Windy, while teaching at Hong Kong Adventist College.

Together, he and Windy want to set up this endowed scholarship to help and encourage students studying computer science at La Sierra University.

Hilmer Besel Math and Computing Scholarship