The University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa) is a public research university located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Established in 1907, it is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaii system and is renowned for its diverse range of academic programs and strong research activities, particularly in oceanography, astronomy, Pacific Islands and Asian area studies, linguistics, education, and tropical agriculture. UH Manoa is situated in a unique ecological setting ideal for environmental, marine, and atmospheric research. The campus boasts a vibrant student life that reflects the cultural diversity of Hawaii, offering various international programs and exchanges that enhance its global perspective. The university is also committed to sustainability and traditional Hawaiian culture, integrating these principles across its curriculum and campus initiatives. UH Manoa plays a crucial role in the educational, cultural, and economic life of the Pacific region and continues to contribute significant research and innovation in various fields.
University of Hawaiʻi scientists discovered key reproductive behaviors of giant Antarctic sea spiders, providing new insights into their development and the broader marine ecosystem. This…
New findings show that coral bleaching prompts the release of compounds that encourage harmful bacterial growth, suggesting these changes could serve as early indicators of…
The Sun generates solar flares that can affect Earth, with the most intense ones capable of causing blackouts and communication disruptions worldwide. However, these solar…
Scientists have discovered strike-slip faults on the icy moons of our solar system, similar to those seen at the San Andreas fault in California. These…
Scientists from the University of Hawai‘i found that Earth’s plasma sheet electrons affect the Moon’s weathering and may help form water. The discovery deepens our…
Astronomers have identified an immense bubble, Hoʻoleilana, 820 million light years away. This structure, believed to be a remnant from the universe’s inception and larger…
Shading Earth: An Innovative Solar Shield Tethered to an Asteroid to Combat Climate Change Earth is rapidly warming and scientists are developing various methods to…
The submarine Hawaiian volcano Kamaʻehuakanaloa, formerly known as Lōʻihi Seamount, situated roughly 20 miles from the southern shore of Hawai’i’s Big Island, has experienced at…
Astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have discovered a planet that survived what should have been a catastrophic event caused by its…
The Mars Perseverance Rover struggled to collect samples from a crumbly, potentially conglomerate rock at the Onahu outcrop, before exploring another location, Stone Man Pass….
The Kuiper Belt, a vast disk brimming with icy bodies including Pluto and located just beyond Neptune’s orbit in our solar system, exhibits an intriguing…
A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, has recently published a study in…
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
According to new research, chances to see rainbows will rise in northern latitudes while falling in many tropical regions. According to a recent study conducted…
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that most of the world’s ocean…
We made it! Perseverance is at the delta, and showering us with incredible images to pore over. Mars 2020 is officially out of “Rapid Traverse”…
The previously elusive methanediol molecule of importance to the organic, atmospheric science, and astrochemistry communities has been synthetically produced for the first time by University…
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed new information about the complex…