University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii at Honolulu (Manoa Campus), Hilo, and Pearl City (West Oahu Campus); land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1907, opened 1908 as the College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts. It became the College of Hawaii in 1911 and assumed its present name in 1920. In 1960 the federal government created the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West on the Manoa campus. The university maintains institutes of astronomy, geophysics, marine biology, and biomedical research and the Lyon Arboretum in Manoa Valley.

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Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope

CanadaFranceHawaii Telescope A 3.6-m reflector at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, opened in 1979. It is jointly owned and operated by Canada, France, and the University of Hawaii through the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Corporation, which has its headquarters in Kamuela, Hawaii. http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/

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