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The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (University of Hawaii—Mānoa, UH Mānoa, Hawai'i, or simply UH) is a
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land-grant
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in Mānoa, a neighborhood in
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. It is the
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of the
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system and houses the main offices of the system. Most of the campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley, with the John A. Burns School of Medicine located adjacent to the Kakaʻako Waterfront Park. U.H. offers over 200 degree programs across 17 colleges and schools. It is accredited by the
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and governed by the
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and a semi-autonomous board of regents. It also a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Mānoa is
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among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". It is a land-grant university that also participates in the sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant research consortia; it is one of only four such universities in the country (
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,
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and
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are the others). Notable U.H. alumni include
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, Richard Parsons, and the parents of
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, Barack Obama Sr. and
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. Forty-four percent of Hawaii's state senators and 51 percent of its state representatives are U.H. graduates.


History


Founding

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was founded in 1907 as a land-grant college of agriculture and mechanical arts establishing "the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi and to Provide for the Government and Support Thereof". The bill Maui Senator William J. Huelani Coelho through the initiatives of
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legislators, a newspaper editor, petition of an Asian American bank cashier, and a president of
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, was introduced into the Territorial Legislature March 1, 1907 as Act 24, and signed into law March 25, 1907 by the
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George Carter, which officially established the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi under a five-member Board of Regents on the corner of Beretania and Victoria streets (now the location of the Honolulu Museum of Art School). Regular classes began on September 14, 1908, with
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as the university's first president. In September 1912 it moved to its present location in Mānoa Valley on 90 acres of land that had been cobbled together from leased and private lands and was renamed the College of Hawaii. William Kwai Fong Yap, an cashier at
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, and a group of citizens petitioned the Hawaii Territorial Legislature six years later for university status which led to another renaming finally to the University of Hawaiʻi on April 30, 1919, with the addition of the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Applied Science. In the years following, the university expanded to include more than 300 acres. In 1931 the Territorial
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was absorbed into the university, becoming Teacher's College, now the College of Education.


20th century

The university continued its growth throughout the 1930s and 1940s increasing from 232 to 402 acres. The number of buildings grew from 4 to 17. Following the
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in December 1941, classes were suspended for two months while the Corps of Engineers occupied much of the campus, including the Teacher's College, for various purposes. The university's ROTC program was put into active duty, which made the campus resemble a military school. When classes resumed on February 11, 1942, about half of the student and faculty body left to enter the war or military service. Students, who returned to campus, found classes cancelled due to lack of faculty and were required to carry gas masks to classes and bomb shelters were kept at a ready. Once the war was over, student enrollment grew faster than the university had faculty and space for. In 1947, the university opened an extension center in Hilo on Hawaiʻi Island in the old Hilo Boarding School. In 1951, Hilo Center was designated the University of Hawaii Hilo Branch before its reorganization by an act of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 1970. By the 1950s, enrollment increased to more than 5,000 students, and the university had expanded to include a Graduate Division, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Business Administration, College of Tropical Agriculture, and College of Arts and Sciences. When the Territory of Hawaiʻi was granted statehood in 1959, the university became a constitutional agency rather than a legislative agency with the Board of Regents having oversight over the university. Enrollment continued to grow to 19,000 at the university through the 1960s and the campus became nationally recognized in research and graduate education. In 1965, the state legislature created a system of community colleges and placed it within the university at the recommendations of the
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's report on higher education in Hawaii and UH President Thomas H. Hamilton. By the end of the 1960s, the University of Hawaiʻi was very different from what it had since its beginning. It had become larger and with the addition of the community colleges, a broad range of activities extending from vocational education to community college education, which were all advanced through research and postdoctoral training. The university was renamed the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to distinguish it from other campuses in the University of Hawaiʻi System in 1972.


Organization and administration

The University of Hawaiʻi is governed by an 11-member board of regents who are nominated by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council, appointed by the governor, and appointed by the State of Hawai'i legislature. The board also appoints the University of Hawai'i president, who also serves as the chief executive of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.


Presidents and chancellors

With the exception of the university's first semester, there has always been either a president, interim president, or chancellor. From 1907 to 1965, before the Hawaiʻi State Legislature created the University of Hawaiʻi System, which incorporated the technical and community colleges into the university, the president's role expanded to include oversight of all system campuses, with chancellors taking responsibility for individual campuses. As a result, the president has filled the role of chancellor at the university in addition to serving as president of the University of Hawaiʻi System. The chancellor's position was created in 1974 and would be abolished in 1984, with Albert J. Simone becoming acting president on June 1, 1984. In 2001, the position of chancellor was recreated by then-UH System president
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over
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concerns. It was again abolished in April 2019.


Presidents

* 1907–1908: Willis T. Pope ''(acting)'' *1908–1913: John W. Gilmore *1913–1914: John Donaghho (''acting'') * 1914–1927: Arthur L. Dean * 1927–1941: David L. Crawford *1941–1942: Arthur R. Keller ''(acting)'' * 1942–1955: Gregg M. Sinclair * 1955–1957: Paul S. Bachman * 1957–1958: Willard Wilson ''(acting)'' * 1958–1963: Laurence H. Snyder * 1963–1968: Thomas H. Hamilton * 1968–1969: Robert W. Hiatt ''(acting)'' * 1969: Richard S. Takasaki ''(acting)'' * 1969–1974: Harlan Cleveland * 1974–1984: ''See list of chancellors below'' *1984–1992:
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* 1992–1993: Paul C. Yuen (''acting)'' *1993 - 2001: Kenneth P. Mortimer * 2001–2017: ''See list of chancellors below'' * 2017–present: David Lassner ''(current)''


Chancellors

* 2001–2002: Deane Neubauer ''(interim)'' * 2002–2005: Peter Englert * 2005–2007: Denise Konan ''(interim)'' * 2007–2012: Virginia Hinshaw * 2012–2014: Tom Apple * 2014–2017: Robert Bley-Vroman ''(interim)''


Academics

UH Mānoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi System, is a four-year research university consisting of 17 schools and colleges. In addition to undergraduate and graduate degrees in the School of Architecture, School of Earth Science and Technology, the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters, the Shidler College of Business, the College of Education, and the College of Engineering, the university also maintains professional schools in law and medicine. Together, the colleges and schools of the university offer bachelor's degrees in 93 fields of study, master's degrees in 84 fields, doctoral degrees in 51 fields, first professional degrees in five fields, post-baccalaureate degrees in three fields, 28 undergraduate certification programs, and 29 graduate certification programs.


College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources

Originally called the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi and formerly the College of Applied Sciences, the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources (CTAHR) is the founding college of the university. Programs of the college focuses on
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, food science and human nutrition, textiles and clothing, and human resources,


College of Education

The college was established as the Honolulu Training School in 1895 to prepare and train teachers and then Territorial Normal and Training School after Hawai'i became a territory in 1905. As the school outgrew its location on the Punchbowl side of Honolulu, a new campus was campus was to be constructed on the corner of University Avenue and Metcalf Street. The first two buildings constructed by the Territorial Department of Public instruction became known as Wist Hall and Wist Annex 1. The normal school was eventually merged into the University of Hawai'i in 1931 as the Teacher's College. In 1959, the name was changed to the College of Education.


College of Arts, Languages & Letters

The College of Arts, Languages, and Letters (CALL) is the newest and largest college at the university. It was created following the dissolution of the College of Arts and Science and the merger of the Colleges of Arts and Humanities, Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL) and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies. The college's core focus is the study of arts, humanities, and languages with a particular focus on Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and Asia Studies.


Shidler College of Business

The College of Business Administration was established in 1949 with programs in accounting, finance, real estate, industrial relations, and marketing. The college was renamed the Shidler College of Business on September 6, 2006, after real-estate executive Jay Shidler, an alumnus of the college, who donated $25 million to the college.


Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing

The School of Nursing was established in 1951, even though courses in nursing had been offered since 1932 with a partnership with Queen's Hospital School of Nursing.


Honors program

The UH Mānoa offers an Honors Program to provide additional resources for students preparing to apply to
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programs. Students complete core curriculum courses for their degrees in the Honors Program, maintain at least a cumulative 3.2 grade-point average in all courses, and complete a senior thesis project.


Library

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library, which provides access to 3.4 million volumes, 50,000 journals, and thousands of digitized documents, is one of the largest academic research libraries in the United States, ranking 86th in parent institution investment among 113 North American members of the Association of Research Libraries.


Rankings

The National Science Foundation ranked UH Mānoa 45th among 395 public universities for Research and Development (R&D) expenditures in fiscal year 2014. According to '' U.S. News & World Report''s rankings for 2021, UH Mānoa was tied at 170th overall and 159th for "Best Value" among national universities; tied at 83rd among public universities; and tied at 145th for its undergraduate engineering program among schools that confer doctorates.


Distance learning

The university offers over 50
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courses, using technology to replace either all or a portion of class instruction. Students interact with their instructors and peers from different locations to further develop their education.


Research

With extramural grants and contracts of $436 million in 2012, research at UH Mānoa relates to Hawaii's physical landscape, its people and their heritage. The geography facilitates advances in marine biology, oceanography, underwater robotic technology, astronomy, geology and geophysics, agriculture, aquaculture and tropical medicine. Its heritage, the people and its close ties to the Asian and Pacific region create a favorable environment for study and research in the arts, genetics, intercultural relations, linguistics, religion and philosophy. According to the
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, UH Mānoa spent $276 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 84th in the nation. Extramural funding increased from $368 million in FY 2008 to nearly $436 million in FY 2012. Research grants increased from $278 million in FY 2008 to $317 million in FY 2012. Nonresearch awards totaled $119 million in FY 2012. Overall, extramural funding increased by 18%. For the period of July 1, 2012 to June 20, 2013, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) received the largest amount of extramural funding among the Mānoa units at $92 million. SOEST was followed by the medical school at $57 million, the College of Natural Sciences and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center at $24 million, the Institute for Astronomy at $22 million, CTARH at $18 million, and the College of Social Sciences and the College of Education at $16 million. Across the UH system, the majority of research funding comes from the
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, the
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, the Department of Education, the
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, the
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, and the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). Local funding comes from Hawaii government agencies, non-profit organizations, health organizations and business and other interests. The $150-million medical complex in Kakaʻako opened in the spring of 2005. The facility houses a biomedical research and education center that attracts significant federal funding and private sector investment in biotechnology and cancer research and development. Research (broadly conceived) is expected of every faculty member at UH Mānoa. Also, according to the Carnegie Foundation, UH Mānoa is an RU/VH (very high research activity) level research university. In 2013, UH Mānoa was elected to membership in the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the leading consortium of research universities for the region. APRU represents 45 premier research universities—with a collective 2 million students and 120,000 faculty members—from 16 economies.


Demographics

U.H. is the fourth most diverse university in the U.S. According to the 2010 report of the Institutional Research Office, a plurality of students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are Caucasian, making up a quarter of the student body. The next largest groups were
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s (13%), native or part native Hawaiians (13%),
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s (8%),
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s (7%) and mixed race (12%). Pacific Islanders and other ethnic groups make up the balance (22%).


Student life


Student housing

All UH Mānoa residence halls are coeducational. These include the Hale Aloha Complex, Johnson Hall, Hale Laulima, and Hale Kahawai. Suite-style residence halls include Frear Hall and Gateway House. First year undergraduates who choose to live on campus live in the traditional residence halls. Two apartment-style complexes are Hale Noelani and Hale Wainani. Hale Noelani consists of five three-story buildings and Hale Wainani has two high rise buildings (one 14-story and one 13-story) and two low-rise buildings. Second-year undergraduates and above are permitted to live in Hale Noelani and Hale Wainani. The university reserves some low-rise units for graduate students and families.


Charles H. Atherton YMCA

The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the YMCA of Honolulu has enjoyed a close and robust partnership since the university's founding. Beginning informally in 1908, the YMCA held bible classes and discussions at the University of Hawai'i, when it was the College of Hawai'i. In 1912, the YMCA of Honolulu followed the college to Mānoa valley and continued its work in Hawai'i Hall. In 1922, the relationship was formalized and it was one of the largest and most active groups on the university's campus, including hosting events for high school and incoming students. In 1932, through funding by the Atherton family, the YMCA moved across the street to a three-story cement building on University Avenue. The building, called the Charles H. Atherton House or the "Pink Building", in addition to being the center for YMCA activities, also served as student housing and dining hall. In 1995, the YMCA purchased the Mary Atherton House next door to provide additional residential and activity space. In 2017, the Atherton building was sold to the university and University of Hawai'i Foundation. Today, its main offices are located in the Queen Lili’uokalani Center for Student Services building on the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where they continue serve UH students and families throughout Hawai'i. The Atherton building has since been closed and renovations began July 2021 to turn the Pink Building into student housing and an innovation center.


Associated Students of the University of Hawai'i

The Associated Students of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (ASUH) is the undergraduate
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representing the 10,000+ full-time, classified, undergraduate students at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. ASUH was founded in 1910 as the Associated Students of Hawai'i and was chartered by the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents in 1912.


Off-campus

*The Lyon Arboretum is the only tropical
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belonging to any US University. The Arboretum, located in Mānoa Valley, was established in 1918 by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association to demonstrate watershed restoration and test tree species for reforestation, as well as to collect living plants of economic value. In 1953, it became part of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Its over 15,000 accessions focus primarily on the monocot families of palms, gingers, heliconias, bromeliads and aroids. *The Waikiki Aquarium, founded in 1904, is the third-oldest public aquarium in the United States. A part of the University of Hawaiʻi since 1919, the Aquarium is located next to a living reef on the Waikiki shoreline.


Athletics

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa competes in NCAA Division I, the only Hawaii school to do so. It competes in the
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for football only and the
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for most other sports. UH competes in the
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in men's and women's swimming and diving, and indoor track and field while the coed and women's sailing teams are members of the
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. Men's teams are known as Rainbow Warriors, and women's teams are called Rainbow Wahine. "Wahine" means "woman" in Hawaiian. They are most notable for men's and women's
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,
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, and
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programs. The university won the 2004
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. The women's volleyball program won NCAA championships in 1982, 1983 and 1987. The men's volleyball won an NCAA championship in 2021. The men's volleyball team had previously won an NCAA championship title game in 2002, but the title was later vacated due to violations. The principal sports venues are
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, Stan Sheriff Center,
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, (M.S., 1970, M.A., 1972), author *
Robyn Ah Mow-Santos Robyn Mokihana Ah Mow (born September 15, 1975) is the head coach of the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team and a former American indoor volleyball player. She was a setter on the USA national team and played at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the ...
, 1996, USA Volleyball Team member and former Olympian * Arsenio Balisacan, PhD, 1985, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines * Colleen Hanabusa, (B.A. 1970, M.A. 1975, J.D. 1977), former U.S. Congresswoman * Linda Taira, (B.A. 1978), former chief congressional correspondent for CNN * Nainoa Thompson, (B.A. 1986) navigator and former trustee of Kamehameha Schools *
Mark Takai Kyle Mark Takai (July 1, 1967 – July 20, 2016) was an American politician from the state of Hawaii who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing , from 2015 to 2016. He served in the Hawaii House of Representatives ...
, (B.A. 1990, M.P.H. 1993) U.S. Congressman * Jay H. Shidler, (B.B.A. 1968) entrepreneur and benefactor of the Shidler College of Business *
Ann Dunham Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She is the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the Uni ...
, (PhD 1992) American anthropologist and mother of
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*
Pat Saiki Patricia Hatsue Saiki (''née'' Fukuda; born May 28, 1930) is an American politician and former educator from Hilo, Hawaii. She served as a Republican in Congress from 1987 to 1991 and then as Administrator of the Small Business Administration u ...
, (B.S. 1952), former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and teacher * Ed Lu, Postdoctoral fellow, former NASA astronaut * Corinne K. A. Watanabe (J.D. 1971), judge Notable faculty of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa include: *
Lee Altenberg Lee Altenberg is an American theoretical biologist. He is on the faculty of the Departments of Information and Computer Sciences and of Mathematics at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He is best known for his work that helped establish the ev ...
, theoretical biologist * Tom Apple, physical chemist * Kim Binsted, computer scientist *
Lyle Campbell Lyle Richard Campbell (born October 22, 1942) is an American scholar and linguist known for his studies of indigenous American languages, especially those of Central America, and on historical linguistics in general. Campbell is professor emeri ...
, linguist * Monique Chyba, mathematician *
Edward DeLong Edward Francis DeLong (born 1958), is a marine microbiologist and professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and is considered a pioneer in the field of metagenomics. He is best known for his discovery of the ...
, atmospheric science, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
* Milton Diamond, anatomist * Mike Douglass, urban planner * David Cameron Duffy, conservation biologist *
Kathy Ferguson Kathy E. Ferguson is an American author, political theorist, educator, and Fulbright Grant recipient. She is professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. In 2009, the American Political Science Associati ...
, political scientist *
Ruth Haas Ruth Haas is an American mathematician and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously she was the Achilles Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. She received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award from the Association for Women in M ...
, mathematician * Richard S. Hamilton, mathematician, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
* Bruce Houghton, vulcanologist * Hope A. Ishii, geophysicist *
Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a b ...
, evolutionary biologist *
David Karl David Michael Karl (May 9, 1950) is an American microbial biologist and oceanographer. He is the Victor and Peggy Brandstrom Pavel Professor of Microbial Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Director of the University Cente ...
, microbiologist and oceanographer, member of the
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*
Klaus Keil Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus *Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American base ...
, geophysicist * Patrick Vinton Kirch, archaeologist, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
* Denise Konan, economist * Michelle Manes, mathematician *
Margaret McFall-Ngai Margaret McFall-Ngai is an American animal physiologist and biochemist best-known for her work related to the symbiotic relationship between Hawaiian bobtail squid, '' Euprymna scolopes'' and bioluminescent bacteria, ''Vibrio fischeri''. Her resea ...
, biologist, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
*
Karen Jean Meech Karen J. Meech (born 1959) is an American planetary astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawaii. Career Karen Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their rela ...
, astronomer * Michael J. Shapiro, political scientist * Manfred Steger, sociologist * Steven M. Stanley, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
* Stephen Vargo, marketing * Bin Wang, meteorologist * Ryuzo Yanagimachi, biologist, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
Notable former faculty members include: * Isabella Abbott, ethnobotanist *
Glenn Cannon Glenn Cannon (November 21, 1932 – April 20, 2013) was an American actor and educator best known for his roles on ''Hawaii Five-O'' and '' Magnum, P.I.'' He also appeared on ''Lost'' in a pair of different roles. Cannon's career began back to th ...
, theatre * Hampton L. Carson, evolutionary biologist * Ruth D. Gates, marine biologist * George Herbig, astronomer, member of the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
* W. Wesley Peterson, computer scientist and mathematician * Joseph Rock, botanist * Shunzo Sakamaki, Japanese studies * Richard Schmidt, linguist *
Harold St. John Harold St. John (July 24/25 1892 – December 12, 1991) was a professor of botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa from 1929 to 1958. A prolific specialist in field botany and systematics, he is credited with discovering about 500 new spe ...
, botanist * Satosi Watanabe, theoretical physicist


Art on campus

Campus art includes: * The John Young Museum of Art * The Jean Charlot collection at the Hamilton Library * Murals by Jean Charlot: ''The Relation of Man and Nature in Old Hawaii'' (1949), ''Commencement'' (1953), ''Inspiration, Study, Creativity'' (1967), and ''Mayan Warrior'' (1970) * Sculptures by
Edward M. Brownlee Edward Malcolm Brownlee (1929-2013) was an American sculptor known for his modernist architectural creations with a style influenced by the art of Oceania, Asia, and the Pacific Northwest. He is best known for his work in Hawaii, where he was a fr ...
: ''Maka Io'' (Hawk's Eye) (1984), and an untitled reflecting pool with copper and iron sculpture (1962) * Sculptures by Bumpei Akaji: ''Maka a e Ike Aku i ke Awawa Uluwehi i na Kuahiwi o Mānoa'' (Glowing Eyes Looking at the Lush Valley in the Mountains of Mānoa) (1979), ''Manaoio'' (Confidence and Faith) (1981), and ''VVV'' (1995) * Murals by Mataumu Toelupe Alisa: ''Backyard Cooking'' (1977), and ''Hula'' (1982) * Works by Shige Yamada: ''Alae a Hina'' (Mud Hen of Hina) (1977), and ''Rainbows'' (1997) * Sculptures by Greg Clurman: ''Sumotori'' (Sumo Wrestler, 1975), and ''Hina o na Lani'' (Mother of the Universe, 1975) * ''Wa'' (Harmony), ceramic sculpture by Wayne A. Miyata, 1982 * ''Founders' Gate'', stone arches by Ralph Fishbourne, 1933 * ''Neumes o Hawaii'', ceramic tile bench and planter by Suzi Pleyte Horan, 1976 * ''Chance Meeting'', cast bronze sculpture by
George Segal George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as ''Ship o ...
, 1991 * Three untitled murals by Frank M. Moore, 1919 * ''Silent Sound'', brass bas relief by Paul Vanders, 1973 * ''The Net Effect'', cast bronze sculpture by Fred H. Roster, 1982 * ''Rainbow Spirit'', painted copper sculpture by Babs Miyano-Young, 1997 * Untitled ceramic wall sculpture by Isami Enomoto, 1964 * ''Gate of Hope'', red-orange painted steel sculpture by Alexander Liberman, 1972 * ''Divers'', red brass sculpture by
Robert Stackhouse Robert Stackhouse (born 1942 in Bronxville, New York, United States) is an American artist and sculptor. Stackhouse graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida in 1965. He later earned a master's degree at the Univ ...
, 1991 * ''Krypton 1 x 6 x 18'', mixed media monolith by Bruce Hopper, 1973 * ''Wisdom of the East'', fresco by Affandi, 1967 * ''Pulelehua'' (Kamehameha Butterfly), ceramic mural by
Bob Flint Bob Flint (born 1941), also known as Robert Flint, is an American ceramic artist. He arrived in Hawaii in 1960 for a summer of surfing and quickly realized that he wanted to stay. In 1961 he entered the University of Hawaii, earning his bache ...
, 1986 * ''Makahiki Hookupu'' (Harvest Celebration), charcoal and sanguine mural by
Juliette May Fraser Juliette May Fraser (January 27, 1887 – July 31, 1983) was an American painter, muralist and printmaker. She was born in Honolulu, which was then the capital city of the Kingdom of Hawaii. After graduating from Wellesley College with a de ...
, 1938 * ''Nana i ke Kumu'' (Look to the Source),
batik Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth. This technique originated from the island of Java, Indonesia. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a ''ca ...
triptych by Yvonne Cheng, 1978 * ''GovDocs'', mural by Judith Yamauchi, 1982 * ''Anuenue #2'' (Rainbow #2), three-part woven wall hanging by Reiko Brandon, 1977 * Seated Amida Buddha, 15th-century Japanese wood sculpture with gold over black lacquer * ''Epitaph'', bronze, steel and granite sculpture by Harold Tovish, 1970 * ''Grid/Scape'', terrazzo and aluminum landscape sculpture by Mamoru Sato, 1982 * ''The Great Manoa Crack Seed Caper'', by Lanny Little and student assistants, 1981 * ''The Bilger Frescoes'' representing ''Air'', ''Water'', ''Earth'' and ''Fire'' by
Juliette May Fraser Juliette May Fraser (January 27, 1887 – July 31, 1983) was an American painter, muralist and printmaker. She was born in Honolulu, which was then the capital city of the Kingdom of Hawaii. After graduating from Wellesley College with a de ...
, David Asherman,
Sueko Matsueda Kimura Sueko Matsueda Kimura (June 10, 1912 – December 25, 2001) was an American artist. She was born in Papaikou, Hawaii in 1912. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, wher ...
and Richard Lucier, 1951–1953 * '' The Fourth Sign'', painted steel sculpture by Tony Smith, 1976 * ''Varney Circle Fountain'', by Henry H. Rempel and Cornelia McIntyre Foley, 1934 * ''Spirit of Loyalty'', cast glass sculpture Rick Mills, 1995 * ''Mind and Heart'', metal sculpture by Frank Sheriff, 1995 * ''To the Nth Power'', steel sculpture by Charles W. Watson, 1971 * ''Bamboo Forest'', mural painted on bricks by Padraic Shigetani, 1978 * ''Peace Pole'', painted obelisk, 1995 * ''Hawaiʻi Kaʻu Kumu'' (Hawaiʻi My Teacher), pair of murals by Calley O'Neill and assistants, 1982 * Untitled painted photorealist mural by Donald Yatomi, 1990 * ''Arctic Portals'', stainless steel sculpture by Jan-Peter Stern, 1975 * ''Adam'', bronze sculpture by Satoru Abe, 1954 These artworks are off the main campus: * East-West Center gallery * ''Pleiades'', overhead installation of mounted prisms at the Institute for Astronomy by
Otto Piene Otto Piene (pronounced PEE-nah, 18 April 1928 – 17 July 2014) was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; ...
, 1976 * ''Shadow of Progress'' mixed media sculpture at the Pacific Biomedical Research Center by Rebecca Steen, 1990 * Woven wall hanging at
KHET KHET (channel 11), branded as PBS Hawai'i, is a PBS member television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands. Owned by the Hawaii Public Television Foundation, the station maintains studios on Sand Island Access ...
(2350 Dole Street) by Jean Williams, 1972


See also

*
Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only ...
* Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) * University of Hawaiʻi Marching Band


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