The University of Hawaii in Honolulu has introduced graduate courses in astronomy and plans to offer a PhD in the field before long. A $500 000 NASA contract will enable the school to build an observatory for an 84‐inch telescope, which will be used mainly for infrared planetary observations. Hawaii already operates a solar observatory and sky‐glow station on Maui. Concurrent with the new astronomy program Hawaii's Physics Department, under John R. Holmes, has changed its title to the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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Telescopes, Education, Universities, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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© 1966 American Institute of Physics.
1966
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