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Centers, Institutes, Labs, and Research Initiatives
The Centers, Institutes, Labs, and Research Initiatives housed within the College of Arts and Sciences tackle some of society's most pressing issues by catalyzing research, creative production, and knowledge dissemination within academia and beyond.
Centers and Institutes
- Antiracist Research & Policy Center (ARPC)
- Carmel Institute of Russian Culture & History
- Center for Language Exploration, Acquisition & Research (CLEAR)
- Center on Health, Risk & Society (CHRS)
- Game Center
- Info-Metrics Institute
- Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis (IMPA)
- Integrated Space Science and Technology Institute (ISSTI)
- Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies (CIS)
Labs and Research
- Alper Initiative for Washington Art
- Biogeochemistry Lab
- Care Work & the Economy
- Chemistry Research & Labs
- Design & Build Lab (DaBL)
- Environmental Science Labs
- Heath Studies Reseach Labs
- Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities
- High Performance Computing (Zorro)
- Humanities Lab
- Humanities Truck
- Immigration Lab
- Inequality, Social Justice & Health Lab
- Initiative for STEM Education, Equity and Ethics (ISE3)
- Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems
- Neuroscience Labs
- Psychology Labs
News & Notes
- Historian Laura Beers's book Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century received the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and Shorenstein Center's 2025 Goldsmith Book Prize, in addition to being named a New Yorker Best Book of 2024.
- Philip Johnson (Physics) has received $1,599,868 NASA for “Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System and Beyond” and received $369,990.68 from NASA for “Spectroscopic Investigations of Processed Planetary and Astrophysical Ices with the Sublimation Laboratory Ice Millimeter/submillimeter Experiment.”
- American University officially launched the Translating Research into Action Center (TRAC). TRAC, which is funded through a $5.7M, four-year cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation Accelerating Research Translation program, is a university-wide initiative established to strengthen our capacity to speed and scale translational research.
See more in CAS News and Achievements.
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