Research Units (by college)

Research units at UH Mānoa are actively engaged in an array of diverse and groundbreaking research ventures. Below is a list of UH Mānoa research units, arranged by college & school.

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• Arts & Sciences
• Business
• Education
• Engineering
• Hawaiian Knowledge
• Medicine
• Ocean & Earth Science & Technology
• Pacific & Asian Studies
• Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources

Arts & Sciences

• College of Arts, Languages & Letters
  • Arts & Humanities
    • East-West Philosopher’s Conference
    • Historic Preservation
    • Museum Studies
    • World History Association
  • Languages, Linguistics & Literature
    • Center for Biographical Research
    • Center for Language & Technology
    • Center for Second Language Research
    • Mānoa Writing Program
    • National Foreign Language Resource Center
  • Pacific & Asian Studies
    • Center for Chinese Studies
    • Center for Japanese Studies
    • Center for Korean Studies
    • Center for Pacific Islands Studies
    • Center for Philippine Studies
    • Center for South Asian Studies
    • Center for Southeast Asian Studies
• Natural Sciences
  • Hawaiʻi-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit
  • Joseph F. Rock Herbarium
  • Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit
• School of Cinematic Arts (Academy for Creative Media)
• Social Sciences
  • Social Science Research Institute
  • Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace

Business

• Center for Japanese Global Investment & Finance
• Family Business Center of Hawaiʻi
• Hawaiʻi International Conference on System Sciences
• Pacific-Asian Center for Entrepreneurship & E-Business

Education

• Center on Disability Studies
• Curriculum Research & Development Group
• Institute for Teacher Education

Engineering

• Hawaiʻi Center for Advanced Communications

Hawaiian Knowledge

• Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language
• Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies (see Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge)
• Ka Papa Loʻi o Kānewai (see Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge)

Medicine

• Center on Aging
• Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence
• Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research

Ocean & Earth Science & Technology

• Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research & Education (C-MORE)
• Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics & Planetology
• Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology
• Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute
• Hawaiʻi Undersea Research Laboratory
• International Pacific Research Center
• Joint Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Research
• Sea Grant College Program

Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources

• GoFarm Hawaiʻi
• Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
• Center on the Family
• Insect Museum