University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy

The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, abbreviated UHIfA or IfA, is a research institute for astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a public research university in Honolulu, Hawaii. Its main headquarters are at 2680 Woodlawn Drive in Honolulu, with additional facilities at Pukalani on Maui and in Hilo on the Big Island. The institute employs over 150 astronomers and support staff in the source description and its researchers study Solar System objects, stars, galaxies and cosmology. It was founded in 1967 to conduct research and to manage the observatory complexes at Haleakalā on Maui and the Mauna Kea Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea.