Mānoa Research Trifold

INTERNATIONALLY & GLOBALLY RENOWNED RESEARCH

Our innovative research leverages our unique Pacific-Asia location and our faculty expertise in strategic areas of research with local and global impact:

• Earth sciences from shoreline to volcanoes and inner Earth processes

• Ocean sciences from microbes to acidification and global circulation

• Astronomy from solar system observations to largest map of galaxies

• Renewable energy from smart building design to power grid integration

• Biodiversity from microbes to ecosystem scale

• Health disparities (JABSOM’s Ola Hawaii; UH Cancer Center’s MEC, CTAHR's Children’s Healthy Living Program)

• Health Analytics (Pacific Health Analytics Collaborative)

• Advanced Data Visualization from LAVA Lab's virtual reality to astronomy

LYON ARBORETUM

UH MĀNOA’S EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH

Carnegie R1 doctoral university categorized among public universities with highest research activity.

1 of only 100 public universities in U.S. recognized with highest research activity

College of Social Sciences (CSS)

University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) forecasts and research are cited regularly in the local, national and international press

University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center (UHCC) The UHCC Multiethnic Cohort Study is one of the most ethnically diverse and longstanding studies in the world, making the UH Cancer Center a unique hub for cancer research.

College of Arts Language and Letters (CALL)

UH Mānoa has been awarded seven Title VI International Education grants and $7M for international studies.

College of Natural Sciences (CNS) The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a state-of-the-art particle detector that measures particles with energies from hundreds of MeV to a few TeV, and is currently onboard the International Space Station through 2024, where it will continue to operate for the duration of the station.

College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) CTAHR associate professor Susan Crow is the principal investigator for a $40-million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant. She will lead a team to assist Hawaiʻi farmers, ranchers and foresters in implementing sustainable, climatesmart practices and establishing stronger markets for locally produced, healthy food and forest products.

John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Cumulina, the first cloned mouse and the first cloned mammal in the United States recently made the trek to her new home in the renowned Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

THE HAWAI'I SPACE EXPLORATION ANALOG AND SIMIULATION (HI-SEAS) MARS-LIKE ENVIRONMENT LOCATED 8,000 FEET ELEVATION ON MAUNA LOA, HAWAI'I ISLAND. NASA-SPONSORED HI-SEAS INCLUDED A SIX-MAN CREW LIVING IN AN ISOLATED MARS-LIKE SITE FOR 365 DAYS. LED BY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MĀNOA RESEARCHERS, IT IS THE LONGEST EARTH-BASED MARS SIMULATION CONDUCTED ON U.S. SOIL.

TOP 2% in the world and the U.S. for academic and research excellence (London-based Quacquarelli Symonds, 2022)

IMPACTFUL RESEARCH STORIES

ˆ Specialized plant propagation helped save rare endangered plant from brink of extinction

National AI partnership prompts advances in ocean robotics and public health research to benefit Hawaiʻi communities

Longstanding INBRE award continues to provide undergraduatelevel college students with unique research opportunities

UH astronomers capture historic NASA spacecraft, asteroid collision

Climate stations deployed across the state with $1.3M National Science Foundation award to UH Mānoa

For more information, visit: www.hawaii.edu/news/category/research

Analyzing wastewater collected in Honolulu for the COVID-19 virus enables a better understanding of the community spread of the virus

(Image) A personal connection with the ‘ulu or Hawaiian breadfruit Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences student

Kahealani Acosta found a personal connection with Hawaiian breadfruit or ‘ulu by examining and documenting nutritional deficiencies to help growers.

FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORK SCHOLARS

UH Mānoa provides financial and programmatic support to undergraduate students in all disciplines to engage in faculty-mentored research and creative work via the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

Student Opportunities via UROP

Entering Research and Creative Work Funding

to explore research or creative work with a faculty mentor

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)

Nine-week cohort program for student involvement in research and creative work in the summer

$3.8

MILLION AWARDED DIRECTLY TO STUDENTS

For more information, visit: manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop

Project Funding

to conduct a faculty-mentored research or creative work project

Undergraduate Showcase

On-campus, professional presentation venue to present faculty-mentored research or creative work.

Presentation Funding

to present at an off-campus conference, exhibition, or competition

600 UROP STUDENT FACULTY MENTORS

115 OFF-CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS SUPPORTED

1,300 RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORK PROJECTS SUPPORTED

92 ACADEMIC MAJORS SUPPORTED

UH MĀNOA EXTRAMURAL CONTRACT & GRANT AWARDS

Award Amounts by Campus Unit per Fiscal Year ($ millions)

↑17%

Research awards increased from FY2018 to 2021: $51 million

FY2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (R&D) expenditures rankings in: OCEAN SCIENCES AND MARINE SCIENCES

GEOLOGICAL AND EARTH SCIENCES

ASTRONOMY, CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS SCIENCE, PHYSICAL SCIENCES

BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION

6 OUT OF 443 (1%)

15 OUT OF 443 (3%)

46 OUT OF 545 (8%)

84 OUT OF 597 (14%)

48 OUT OF 319 (15%)

For the first time in its history, the University of Hawaiʻi 10-campus system topped half a billion dollars in extramural funding with a record $505 million in fiscal year 2022 (FY2022). UH Mānoa accounted for $366 million of the extramural awards.

58th

In the U.S., UHM ranked 58th among all R1 public universities and 91st among all public/ private universities in extramural research expenditures ($276 million; NSF, FY20)

TOP 2%

UH Mānoa is consistently ranked among the top 2% of nearly 26,000 universities in the world!

Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship

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