Astronomy Education

To live and work under the sky of Hawaii is an extraordinary privilege. The Institute for Astronomy's unmatched access to the telescopes and instruments on Manua Kea and Haleakala represents a unique resource for education as well as research. We thus have an opportunity and a responsibility to advance the future of our subject by training world-class astronomers, and by sharing our knowledge with anyone interested in astronomy.

The Astronomy Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa was founded in 1972. Officially, it is part of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, currently chaired by physics Professor Michael Peters. In practice, the astronomy program operates independently of the physics program and is based at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA), a few blocks north of the UH-Manoa campus. The current chair of the astronomy graduate program, Dr. David Sanders, also oversees undergraduate astronomy courses at UH-Manoa.