{"id":42853,"date":"2016-02-11T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T00:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=42853"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T01:52:34","slug":"university-of-hawaii-reaffirms-support-of-tmt-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/university-of-hawaii-reaffirms-support-of-tmt-project\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Hawai\u02bbi reaffirms support of <abbr title=\"Thirty Meter Telescope\">TMT<\/abbr> project"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/observatories-maunakea.jpg\" alt=\"observatories on maunakea\" width=\"620\" height=\"143\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/observatories-maunakea.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/observatories-maunakea-260x60.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\"><em>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s response to recent media reports that the Thirty Meter Telescope is now exploring alternative sites as a \u201cPlan B\u201d if it can&#8217;t build in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> remains steadfast in our support for locating the Thirty Meter Telescope in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. The project is a tremendous scientific and economic opportunity for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island and the state. It will be a cornerstone of the next generation of astronomy in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, one of the anchors of our research and innovation enterprise. <abbr>TMT<\/abbr> is also providing educational, scholarship and <abbr title=\"Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> support for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island schools and substantial resources for improved stewardship of Maunakea. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> was the original permit applicant for the project and will be deeply involved in the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/dlnr.hawaii.gov\/\">Land Board<\/a> proceedings, as we have been throughout the process to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> remains steadfast in our support for locating the Thirty Meter Telescope in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,814],"tags":[34,659,1053,947],"class_list":["post-42853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-maunakea","tag-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-tmt","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42853"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101036,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42853\/revisions\/101036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}