University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) is a public land-grant research university in the Mānoa Valley of Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii, United States, and is the flagship campus of the ten-campus University of Hawaiʻi System.夏威夷大学马诺阿分校（University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa，简称 UH Mānoa）是位于美国夏威夷州瓦胡岛火奴鲁鲁马诺阿山谷的一所公立赠地研究型大学，也是由十个校区组成的夏威夷大学系统的旗舰校区。

It was established in 1907 as the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi, gained university status in 1919, and enrolled 20,028 students in fall 2024, among them 15,375 undergraduates and 4,653 graduate students.该校于 1907 年以夏威夷领地农业与机械艺术学院之名创办，1919 年升格为大学；2024 年秋季在校学生 20,028 人，其中本科生 15,375 人、研究生 4,653 人。

Classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, it is one of the few American institutions holding the land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant and sun-grant designations, and it ranks 643rd in the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校被列为科研活动极强的 R1 类博士型大学，是美国少数同时拥有赠地、赠海、赠太空与赠阳光四项称号的高校之一，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 643 位。

History

• The university's origins lie in Act 24, introduced into the Territorial Legislature on 1 March 1907 by Maui senator William J. Huelani Coelho and signed into law on 25 March 1907 by Governor George Carter as the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi.该校的起源是第 24 号法案，由茂宜岛参议员 William J. Huelani Coelho 于 1907 年 3 月 1 日提交领地议会，并于 1907 年 3 月 25 日由总督 George Carter 签署成为法律，创办夏威夷领地农业与机械艺术学院。
• The founding campaign was driven by Native Hawaiian legislators, a newspaper editor and a petition by William Kwai Fong Yap, a cashier at the Bank of Hawaii, whose efforts helped secure a land-grant college for the islands.建校运动由夏威夷原住民议员、一位报纸编辑以及夏威夷银行出纳 William Kwai Fong Yap 发起的请愿共同推动，其努力促成为群岛设立一所赠地学院。
• In October 1907 the Board of Regents selected J. E. Roadhouse of the University of California to head the new college, but he died before leaving Berkeley, so Willis T. Pope of the Territorial Normal School led it through its first semester.1907 年 10 月，董事会选定加利福尼亚大学的 J. E. Roadhouse 出任新学院院长，但他未及离开伯克利便去世，于是由领地师范学校的 Willis T. Pope 主持其第一个学期。
• In spring 1908 the regents appointed John Gilmore, a professor of agriculture at Cornell University, as the college's first president, and the Cornell connection strongly shaped the young institution.1908 年春，董事会任命康奈尔大学农学教授 John Gilmore 为学院首任校长，康奈尔的渊源深刻塑造了这所年轻的学府。
• It formally opened as an institution of higher learning on 14 September 1908, when five freshmen enrolled in a bachelor of science programme at a site on the corner of Beretania and Victoria streets.1908 年 9 月 14 日，该校正式以高等学府身份开办，首批五名新生在贝雷塔尼亚街与维多利亚街交界的校址注册攻读理学学士课程。
• In September 1912 it moved to its present location in Mānoa Valley on 90 acres assembled from leased and private lands, and was renamed the College of Hawaii.1912 年 9 月，该校迁至现址马诺阿山谷，占地 90 英亩，由租借地与私有地拼凑而成，并更名为夏威夷学院。
• Six years later, after a petition led by the Bank of Hawaii cashier William Kwai Fong Yap, the legislature granted university status, and on 30 April 1919 the institution became the University of Hawaiʻi with new colleges of arts and sciences and of applied science.六年后，在夏威夷银行出纳 William Kwai Fong Yap 领衔请愿之下，议会授予大学资格；1919 年 4 月 30 日该校定名为夏威夷大学，并增设文理学院与应用科学学院。
• In 1931 the Territorial Normal School was absorbed into the university and became the Teacher's College, the forerunner of today's College of Education.1931 年，领地师范学校并入该校，成为师范学院，即今日教育学院的前身。
• Between 1931 and 1941 the campus grew from 232 to 402 acres while its buildings increased in number from four to seventeen.在 1931 年至 1941 年间，校园面积由 232 英亩扩展至 402 英亩，建筑数量则由四座增至十七座。
• After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 classes were suspended for two months while the Corps of Engineers occupied much of the campus, and the ROTC programme was placed on active duty.1941 年 12 月珍珠港事件后，课程停摆两个月，其间美国陆军工程兵团占用校园大片区域，后备军官训练团亦转入现役。
• When classes resumed on 11 February 1942 about half of the student and faculty body had left for military service, and those who remained carried gas masks and kept bomb shelters ready.1942 年 2 月 11 日复课时，约半数师生已离校从军，留守者需随身携带防毒面具并保持防空洞待用。
• In 1947 the university opened an extension centre in Hilo on Hawaiʻi Island in the old Hilo Boarding School.1947 年，该校在夏威夷岛希洛的旧希洛寄宿学校开设了延伸中心。
• In 1951 the Hilo Centre was designated the University of Hawaiʻi Hilo Branch before its reorganisation by an act of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 1970.1951 年，希洛中心被定名为夏威夷大学希洛分校，其后于 1970 年经夏威夷州议会法案重组。
• By 1950 enrolment exceeded 5,000 students and the university had added a Graduate Division along with colleges of education, engineering, business administration and tropical agriculture.至 1950 年，在校学生已超过 5,000 人，该校陆续增设研究生院以及教育、工程、工商管理与热带农业等学院。
• When Hawaiʻi achieved statehood in 1959 the university became a constitutional rather than a legislative agency, with the Board of Regents exercising oversight, and enrolment climbed to about 19,000 by 1967.1959 年夏威夷建州后，该校由立法机构附属单位转为宪制机构，由董事会行使监督权；至 1967 年在校人数升至约 19,000 人。
• In 1965 the state legislature created a system of community colleges and placed it within the university, on the recommendation of UH President Thomas Hamilton.1965 年，州议会设立社区学院体系并将其纳入大学之下，此建议出自时任校长 Thomas Hamilton。
• The university was renamed the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1972 to distinguish it from the other campuses of the growing University of Hawaiʻi System.1972 年，为区别于不断扩大的夏威夷大学系统内的其他校区，该校更名为夏威夷大学马诺阿分校。
• A campus-specific chancellor role was introduced in 1974, dissolved in 1984, re-established in 2001 under system president Evan Dobelle, and finally replaced by a president-and-provost structure in 2017.面向本校区设置的校监职位于 1974 年设立、1984 年撤销、2001 年在系统总校长 Evan Dobelle 任内重新设立，并最终于 2017 年被「总校长加教务长」结构取代。
• In spring 2005 a 150-million-dollar medical complex opened in Kakaʻako, providing the John A. Burns School of Medicine with a biomedical research and education centre.2005 年春，位于卡卡阿科、造价 1.5 亿美元的医学综合楼启用，为约翰·A·伯恩斯医学院提供生物医学研究与教学中心。
• The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, founded in 1971 and known as the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi before 2011, completed its Kakaʻako facility in 2013 and is designated by the National Cancer Institute.夏威夷大学癌症中心创办于 1971 年，2011 年前称夏威夷癌症研究中心，其卡卡阿科设施于 2013 年落成，并获美国国家癌症研究所指定资格。
• In October 2024 the founding College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources was renamed the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience to reflect its widened mission.2024 年 10 月，作为建校根基的热带农业与人力资源学院更名为热带农业与人类韧性学院，以体现其扩展后的使命。
• In June 2025 the Board of Regents approved Vassilis Syrmos, a faculty member of more than 35 years, as chancellor of UH Mānoa, with his tenure beginning on 1 July 2025.2025 年 6 月，董事会批准在该校任教逾 35 年的 Vassilis Syrmos 出任马诺阿分校校监，其任期自 2025 年 7 月 1 日开始。

Academics

• UH Mānoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi System, comprises 14 colleges and schools, including the College of Arts, Languages and Letters, the Shidler College of Business, the College of Engineering and the College of Education.作为夏威夷大学系统旗舰校区的马诺阿分校设有 14 个学院，包括艺术、语言与文学学院、Shidler 商学院、工程学院和教育学院。
• Together the colleges offer bachelor's degrees in 93 fields of study, master's degrees in 84 fields and professional or doctoral degrees in 54 fields, alongside undergraduate and graduate certificates.各学院合计可授予 93 个领域的学士学位、84 个领域的硕士学位以及 54 个领域的专业或博士学位，并提供本科与研究生证书课程。
• The university maintains professional schools in law and medicine, namely the William S. Richardson School of Law and the John A. Burns School of Medicine.该校设有法学与医学两类专业学院，即威廉·S·理查森法学院与约翰·A·伯恩斯医学院。
• The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources is the founding college, tracing its origin to the 1907 charter and focused on tropical agriculture, food science, human nutrition and human resilience.热带农业与人力资源学院是建校根基学院，其源头可追溯至 1907 年的立案，教研集中于热带农业、食品科学、人类营养与人类韧性。
• The College of Business Administration was established in 1949 and renamed the Shidler College of Business on 6 September 2006, after alumnus Jay Shidler donated 25 million dollars.工商管理学院设立于 1949 年，2006 年 9 月 6 日在校友 Jay Shidler 捐资 2,500 万美元后更名为 Shidler 商学院。
• The School of Nursing was established in 1951, although nursing courses had been offered since 1932 in partnership with the Queen's Hospital School of Nursing.护理学院设立于 1951 年，不过自 1932 年起该校便与皇后医院护理学校合作开设护理课程。
• The College of Arts, Languages and Letters is the newest and largest college, created by merging the Colleges of Arts and Humanities with Languages, Linguistics and Literature and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies.艺术、语言与文学学院是最新且规模最大的学院，由艺术与人文学院同语言、语言学与文学学院以及太平洋与亚洲研究学院合并而成。
• The College of Education grew out of the Honolulu Training School of 1895, which became the Territorial Normal and Training School in 1905 and was renamed the College of Education in 1959.教育学院源于 1895 年的火奴鲁鲁师范学校，该校 1905 年成为领地师范与训练学校，并于 1959 年更名为教育学院。
• The Honors Program provides extra resources for students preparing for professional schools, requiring a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.2 and a senior thesis.荣誉课程为准备升读专业学院的学生提供额外资源，要求累计平均绩点不低于 3.2 并完成一篇毕业论文。
• The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library provides access to 3.4 million volumes and 50,000 journals and is one of the largest academic research libraries in the United States.夏威夷大学马诺阿分校图书馆可提供 340 万册藏书与 5 万种期刊的查阅，是美国规模最大的学术研究图书馆之一。
• UH Mānoa reported more than 464.9 million dollars in new extramural research funds in 2024 and is ranked among the top 60 public universities for research expenditure by the National Science Foundation.2024 年，马诺阿分校获得逾 4.649 亿美元校外科研经费；据美国国家科学基金会排名，其科研支出位列全美公立大学前 60。
• Its research strengths span oceanography, astronomy, tropical agriculture, tropical medicine, volcanology, evolutionary biology, linguistics and Pacific and Asian area studies.其研究优势涵盖海洋学、天文学、热带农业、热带医学、火山学、演化生物学、语言学以及太平洋与亚洲区域研究。
• Research is organised through units such as the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the Institute for Astronomy, which operates observatories on Mauna Kea and Haleakalā.科研通过海洋与地球科学技术学院以及天文学研究所等单位组织，后者在莫纳克亚和哈莱阿卡拉运营天文台。
• The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center is designated by the National Cancer Institute and represents Hawaiʻi and the wider Pacific region in national cancer research.夏威夷大学癌症中心获美国国家癌症研究所指定，代表夏威夷与太平洋地区参与全国癌症研究。
• The Lyon Arboretum, the only tropical arboretum belonging to an American university, became part of UH Mānoa in 1953 and holds more than 15,000 accessions.里昂树木园是全美唯一隶属于大学的热带树木园，1953 年并入马诺阿分校，现藏有逾 15,000 份植物种质登记。
• The Waikīkī Aquarium, founded in 1904 and attached to the university since 1919, is the third-oldest public aquarium in the United States and sits beside a living reef.怀基基水族馆创办于 1904 年、1919 年归属该校，是美国第三古老的公共水族馆，毗邻一片活珊瑚礁。
• The university and its Applied Research Laboratory form one of only fourteen University Affiliated Research Centers of the U.S. Department of Defense and one of five such centres for the U.S. Navy.该校及其应用研究实验室是美国国防部仅有的十四个大学附属研究中心之一，也是美国海军五家此类中心之一。
• For the 2024-25 academic year the middle 50 per cent of enrolled students scored between 1050 and 1350 on the SAT, with a 50th percentile of 1200.2024 至 2025 学年，入学新生的 SAT 成绩中间 50% 区间为 1050 至 1350 分，中位数为 1200 分。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley on the island of Oʻahu, about three miles from downtown Honolulu and minutes from Waikīkī.主校区位于瓦胡岛马诺阿山谷谷口东半部，距火奴鲁鲁市中心约三英里，离怀基基仅数分钟路程。
• The campus covers 320 acres of landscaped grounds in a valley setting framed by the Koʻolau Range.校园占地 320 英亩，坐落于被科奥劳山脉环抱的山谷环境中，园林景致宜人。
• The John A. Burns School of Medicine is located in Kakaʻako, adjacent to the Kakaʻako Waterfront Park and separate from the Mānoa campus.约翰·A·伯恩斯医学院位于卡卡阿科，紧邻卡卡阿科海滨公园，与马诺阿主校区分开。
• The Hamilton Library and the Sinclair Library serve the campus, with Hamilton holding the main research collections of the university.汉密尔顿图书馆与辛克莱图书馆服务于校园，其中汉密尔顿图书馆收藏着该校的主要研究馆藏。
• Ten residential halls and two apartment complexes house students, including the Hale Aloha complex, Frear Hall, Gateway House and the Hale Noelani and Hale Wainani apartments.十座学生宿舍与两处公寓楼供学生住宿，包括 Hale Aloha 建筑群、Frear Hall、Gateway House 以及 Hale Noelani 与 Hale Wainani 公寓。
• Off-campus university facilities include the Lyon Arboretum in upper Mānoa Valley and the Waikīkī Aquarium on the Waikīkī shoreline.校外校属设施包括位于马诺阿山谷上部的里昂树木园与坐落在怀基基海岸的怀基基水族馆。
• Its principal sports venues are the Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex, the Stan Sheriff Center, Les Murakami Stadium and the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex.其主要体育场馆包括克拉伦斯·T·C·程体育综合馆、斯坦·谢里夫中心、莱斯·村上体育场与杜克·卡哈纳莫库水上运动中心。
• The campus lies at approximately 21.30 degrees north and 157.86 degrees west, its buildings and green spaces woven into the residential fabric of eastern Honolulu.校园位于北纬约 21.30 度、西经约 157.86 度，其建筑与绿地融入火奴鲁鲁东部的居住区肌理。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is placed 643rd in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，夏威夷大学马诺阿分校位列世界第 643 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places UH Mānoa at joint 299th in the world, within the 251-300 band it also occupied in 2026.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将马诺阿分校列为并列第 299 位，处于其 2026 年同样所在的 251 至 300 区间。 ^[1]
• The U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places the university 482nd in the world.2026 至 2027 年版《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名将该校列为世界第 482 位。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, compiled by ShanghaiRanking, places UH Mānoa in the 401-500 band worldwide.由上海软科编制的 2026 年世界大学学术排名将马诺阿分校列于世界第 401 至 500 区间。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 111,392 works to the university with 8,898,058 citations, reflecting its substantial research output.OpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 111,392 篇成果、被引用 8,898,058 次，体现其可观的科研产出。
• In the 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, oceanography ranks 7th in the world and atmospheric sciences 13th, while hospitality and tourism management ranks 32nd.在 2024 年软科世界一流学科排名中，其海洋学位列世界第 7、大气科学第 13，而酒店与旅游管理位列第 32。
• UH Mānoa is consistently ranked in the top two per cent of the nearly 24,000 universities assessed worldwide.马诺阿分校长期位居全球近 24,000 所受评大学的前 2%。
• In 2013 the university was elected to the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a consortium of premier research universities in the region.2013 年，该校获选加入环太平洋大学联盟，该联盟是区域内顶尖研究型大学的联合组织。
• The National Science Foundation ranked the university 45th among 395 public universities for research and development expenditure in fiscal year 2014.美国国家科学基金会将该校列为 2014 财年 395 所公立大学中研发支出的第 45 位。

Student life

• The university system's motto is the Hawaiian phrase "Maluna aʻe o nā lāhui a pau ke ola ke kanaka", meaning "Above all nations is humanity".该大学系统的校训为夏威夷语「Maluna aʻe o nā lāhui a pau ke ola ke kanaka」，意为「人性高于一切族裔」。
• The Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the undergraduate student government, was founded in 1910 as the Associated Students of Hawaiʻi and chartered in 1912.夏威夷大学马诺阿分校学生联合会是本科生自治组织，1910 年以「夏威夷学生联合会」之名成立，并于 1912 年获得立案。
• The YMCA of Honolulu has partnered with the university since 1908, and in 1932 the Atherton family funded a three-storey building on University Avenue that served as a student centre.火奴鲁鲁基督教青年会自 1908 年起与该校合作，1932 年阿瑟顿家族出资在大学路建起一座三层建筑，用作学生活动中心。
• UH Mānoa competes in NCAA Division I as the only Hawaii school to do so, fielding teams in the Mountain West Conference for football and the Big West Conference for most other sports.马诺阿分校是夏威夷唯一参加美国大学体育协会一级联赛的学校，橄榄球队属山西联盟，其余多数项目属大西联盟。
• Men's teams are known as the Rainbow Warriors and women's teams as the Rainbow Wahine, and the women's volleyball programme won NCAA championships in 1982, 1983 and 1987.男子队伍称「彩虹勇士」，女子队伍称「彩虹瓦希涅」，其女子排球队曾于 1982、1983 与 1987 年夺得全国大学体育协会冠军。
• The men's volleyball team won NCAA championships in 2021 and 2022, having previously claimed a title in 2002 that was later vacated.男子排球队于 2021 与 2022 年两夺全国大学体育协会冠军，此前曾在 2002 年夺冠，但该头衔后来被取消。
• The university hosts over 135 recognised student organisations and an athletics programme of roughly 450 student athletes competing on 21 varsity teams.该校设有逾 135 个获认可的学生社团，其体育项目约有 450 名学生运动员，组成 21 支校队。
• About 18 per cent of undergraduates live on campus in ten residential halls and two apartment complexes.约 18% 的本科生住在校内十座学生宿舍与两处公寓楼中。

Notable people

• John Gilmore, a Cornell University professor of agriculture, served as the college's first president from 1908 and shaped its early curriculum.康奈尔大学农学教授 John Gilmore 自 1908 年起担任学院首任校长，塑造了其早期课程。
• Willis T. Pope led the college for its first semester in 1907-08 and later served as Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Territory of Hawaiʻi from 1910 to 1913.Willis T. Pope 于 1907 至 1908 年间主持学院首个学期，其后于 1910 至 1913 年出任夏威夷领地公共教育总监。
• Patsy Mink, a 1948 graduate, became the first woman of colour elected to the U.S. Congress and was a principal author of Title IX, the 1972 law banning sex discrimination in education.1948 年毕业的 Patsy Mink 成为首位当选美国国会议员的有色人种女性，也是 1972 年禁止教育领域性别歧视的《教育法修正案第九条》的主要起草人。
• Daniel Inouye, who graduated in 1950, served as a U.S. senator from 1963 until his death in 2012 and was a recipient of the Medal of Honor.1950 年毕业的 Daniel Inouye 自 1963 年起任美国联邦参议员直至 2012 年逝世，并获荣誉勋章。
• Daniel Akaka, Mazie Hirono and Tammy Duckworth, all graduates, each went on to serve in the United States Senate.Daniel Akaka、Mazie Hirono 与 Tammy Duckworth 均为该校毕业生，后来都进入美国联邦参议院任职。
• Barack Obama Sr., who graduated in 1962, and the anthropologist Ann Dunham, who earned her doctorate in 1992, were the parents of U.S. President Barack Obama.1962 年毕业的 Barack Obama Sr. 与 1992 年获博士学位的人类学家 Ann Dunham，是美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马的双亲。
• Robert Ballard, who earned a master's degree in 1966, is the oceanographer who located the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.1966 年获硕士学位的 Robert Ballard 是海洋学家，于 1985 年发现了泰坦尼克号残骸。
• Richard Parsons, a 1968 graduate, served as chairman of Citigroup and later as interim chairman of the board of CBS Corporation.1968 年毕业的 Richard Parsons 曾任花旗集团董事长，后出任哥伦比亚广播公司董事会临时主席。
• Jay H. Shidler, an entrepreneur who graduated in 1968, donated 25 million dollars to his college, which was renamed in his honour in 2006.1968 年毕业的企业家 Jay H. Shidler 向其就读学院捐资 2,500 万美元，学院遂于 2006 年以其姓名更名。
• Nainoa Thompson, a 1986 graduate, is a Polynesian navigator who revived traditional wayfinding and voyaged on the double-hulled canoe Hōkūleʻa.1986 年毕业的 Nainoa Thompson 是波利尼西亚航海家，复兴了传统星象导航术，并驾驶双体独木舟 Hōkūleʻa 远航。
• Alice Augusta Ball, who earned a master's degree in chemistry in 1915, developed the first effective treatment for leprosy before her death at the age of 24.1915 年获化学硕士学位的 Alice Augusta Ball 在 24 岁去世前研制出首个有效的麻风病疗法。
• Norman Abramson, a former professor of electrical engineering, led the development of the ALOHAnet wireless network, a forerunner of modern cellular and wireless technology.曾任电气工程教授的 Norman Abramson 主导开发了 ALOHAnet 无线网络，它是现代蜂窝与无线网络技术的先驱。