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Mānoa: $4.2M broadens participation in clean energy, materials science in Hawai‘i
A team led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers aims to use a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle clean energy needs on multiple fronts from sustainable solutions and integrating Native Hawaiian knowledge to engaging with high school students.
University of Hawaiʻi student-built satellite selected for NASA launch
A University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa student group was selected as one of 10 small research satellite developers to launch their satellite into space as early as 2025 through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. This is the second project led by students in the earth and planetary exploration technology (EPET) certificate program to be granted an opportunity to take their satellite project to the deployment phase. The first student-built satellite was selected in April 2023.
UH Scientists Awaited as NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landed On Mars to Search for Signs of Ancient Life
After a six-month journey, Perseverance, the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to Mars landed on the red planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 at 10:55 a.m. HST. Along with people around the world, scientists and students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa eagerly awaited the milestone.
