Centers, Institutes, Initiatives
17吃瓜在线鈥檚 pioneering Centers undertake research regarding the world most pressing issues and carry out 17吃瓜在线 mission to produce novel ideas that inform society and enable decision-makers to adopt evidence-based practices. Through Centers operating on a system-wide basis and within individual Schools and Colleges, 17吃瓜在线 catalyzes research, creative production and knowledge dissemination within academia and beyond. Research centers vary in size, scope, and organization between and among the university鈥檚 eight schools and colleges.
University Research & Policy Institutes
University Research and Policy Institutes are high priority, well-resourced units that articulate programs drawing on capabilities distributed across the 17吃瓜在线 academic campus. These University-level entities operate at the forefront of their field and embody 17吃瓜在线鈥檚 aspiration to world class leadership in select domains of knowledge creation and diffusion.
Cross-School Research Initatives
The mission of cross-school research initiatives is the discovery of new knowledge and/or service to the public or profession. These entities advance the overall mission of more than one school or college, come under the authority of the corresponding deans. These centers and institutes are intellectual and professional engines that show promise for the participation of leading scholars, policy makers, practitioners, and artists. Centers or institutes involve a team of collaborators.
School-Based Research Centers
Schools and Colleges across campus spearhead initiatives within their units that strive to effect major impacts on scholarship and public understanding of pressing issues. These Centers or institutes can involve a single principal investigator or a team of collaborators positioned to attend to major questions of our time and are supported by external sponsors.
College of Arts & Sciences
- Center on Health, Risk & Society (CHRS)
- Integrated Space Science and Technology Institute (ISSTI)
- Design and Build Lab
Programmatic Centers in the College of Arts & Sciences
Kogod School of Business
Programmatic Centers in Kogod School of Business
School of Education
School of International Service
- Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology
- Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy
- The Transatlantic Policy Center
Programmatic Centers in the School of International Services
- Summer Sisters Summer Exchange Program
- Transnational Challenges and Emerging Nations Dialog (TRANSCEND)
School of Public Affairs
- Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
- Center for Environmental Policy
- Metropolitan Policy Center
- The Postsecondary Equity & Economics Research (PEER) Center
Programmatic Centers in the School of Public Affairs
Washington College of Law
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