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
- Carmel Institute of Russian Culture & History
- Center for Language Exploration, Acquisition & Research (CLEAR)
- Center on Health, Risk & Society (CHRS)
- Game Center
- Info-Metrics Institute
- 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
- 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
- Neuroscience PhD candidate Chenxi Liao’s article, "Unsupervised learning reveals interpretable latent representations for translucency perception," is the cover story for PLOS Computational Biology. Bei Xiao received a $420,538 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the related project “Learning diagnostic latent representations for human material perception: common mechanisms and individual variability.”
- Jon D. Wisman (Economics) was awarded as Winner of the 2023 Veblen-Commons Award, the highest honor given annually by the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings in New Orleans, in recognition of significant contributions to evolutionary institutional economics.
- Philip Johnson (Physics) received a $359,622.81 grant (incrementally funded over three years for a total of $1,599,868) from NASA for the project titled “Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System and Beyond.”
See more in CAS News and Achievements.