University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa University of Hawaii in the Mānoa district |
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motto | Ma luna aʻe o na lahui a pau ke ola o ke kanaka |
founding | 1907 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Honolulu borough of Manoa, Hawaii , USA |
Chancellor | David Lassner (acting) |
Students | 18,056, including 4,924 graduates (2016) |
Employee | 1,272 |
University sports |
Big West Conference American Football: Mountain West Conference |
Website | www.uhm.hawaii.edu |
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a state university in the Manoa (Mānoa) district of Honolulu in the US state of Hawaii . With 18,056 students (as of autumn 2016) it is the most important location of the University of Hawaii System .
history
The university was founded in 1907 as the College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts , renamed the College of Hawaiʻi in 1912 , and was given its current name in 1920.
Course offers
There are over 200 courses offered in 18 faculties. Among them are the faculties (schools) for oceanography, tropical agriculture and Hawaiian knowledge .
Sports
The sports teams are the Rainbow Warriors (men) and Rainbow Wahine (women). Other names such as warriors or rainbows are also used. The university is a member of the Big West Conference and a football member of the Mountain West Conference .
Personalities
Professors
- Rudolph Joseph Rummel (1932–2014) - political scientist
- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) - writer
- Klaus Wyrtki (1925-2013) - oceanographer
- Lorenz Magaard (* 1934) - oceanographer
- Robert R. Locke (* 1932) - economist and historian
Graduates
- Robert Ballard (* 1942) - writer and deep-sea scientist
- Beau Bridges (born 1941) - actor
- Larry Cole (born 1946) - American football player
- Ann Dunham Soetoro - mother of US President Barack Obama
- Jason Elam (born 1970) - football player
- Kynan Forney (born 1978) - American football player
- Daniel Inouye (1924–2012) - politician
- Lee Jong-wook (1945–2006) - WHO Director General
- Fidelis Leite Magalhães (* 1980) - East Timorese politician
- Bette Midler (born 1945) - singer and actress
- Michael Okuda - chief designer of Star Trek
- Edward Tsang Lu (born 1963) - astronaut
- Mark Tuinei (1960-1999) - American football player
- Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982) - father of the US President
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hawaiian for: "Humanity stands above all peoples"
- ^ Chancellor's Welcome Message. In: manoa.hawaii.edu. 2019, accessed on April 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b About UH
- ↑ Academics University of Hawaii at Manoa., Accessed June 18, 2017.
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Coordinates: 21 ° 17 ′ 49.2 ″ N , 157 ° 49 ′ 1.2 ″ W.