Centers and institutes
Blending the passions of exceptional faculty and scholars across disciplines to make the world a better place
Arizona State University is home to various centers and institutes that blend the passions of exceptional faculty and scholars across disciplines. Our centers and institutes address large, complex problems and challenges facing society in hopes of finding solutions and making the world a better place.
From pursuing cutting-edge research in earth and space exploration, developing quick solutions to fight new infectious diseases, to studying implications of new discoveries on public policy and democracy, our centers and institutes are working toward positive change locally, nationally, internationally, and beyond.
For questions, changes, or additions to the list of centers and institutes list, email the University Program Review and Accreditation Office (UPRA) under the Provost Office.
ASU's Centers and Institutes
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The Center of Muslim Experience in the United States (CME-US) is a multi-partnership, transdisciplinary research and community outreach center leading the way in producing transformative scholarship about Muslims in the U.S. that contributes to an American inclusive future.
The vision of the Adaptive Intelligent Materials & Systems (AIMS) Center is to become a national Center of Excellence in the area of intelligent materials and adaptive systems.
The adidas-ASU Center for Engagement Science is a hotbed for discovery where industry and academia join forces to create a systematic approach to understanding the cognitive, emotional and environmental processes that drive individuals toward engagement with products, experiences and stories.
The Advanced Electronics and Photonics Core Facility (AEP) provides comprehensive electronics capabilities bridging the high risk, resource-intensive gap between innovation and product development in an information-secure environment. AEP offers backplane electronics design, fabrication, test and integration capabilities, and operates dedicated pilot line toolsets for technology development and technology demonstrator production.
AIDA’s vision is to ensure that AI betters our lives, society and the world. Central to this vision is the concept of “mindful AI”, which emphasizes a deep understanding of the purposes (what and why) for which AI is utilized and how it should be responsibly and ethically developed and used. The Center serves as a platform to share ideas and develop AI and data analytics solutions that address critical challenges, prepare future workforce and leaders, and make a positive impact on business practices and societal advancement.
AIPI supports tribal sovereignty through examination, exploration and elevation of issues impacting communities and American Indian and Alaska Native peoples.
The Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (ACE) advances the fundamental understanding of cancer and its clinical management through the development and application of evolutionary and ecological models to cancer biology.
The Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) harnesses algae technology to produce renewable energy, food, feed and other valuable products, while performing environmental services to support a more sustainable future for society.
The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies enables and promotes the most expansive, creative and daring scholarship in medieval and renaissance studies. The center promotes work that is historically grounded and theoretically expansive, with the aim of advancing dialogues that reach into the present moment and point us to different, more inclusive, futures.
The center enhances the lives of people living and working in the correctional system through research, education and community engagement
The Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation is a global leader in advancing understanding and effective philanthropic and nonprofit practice as a community development strategy.
The ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center advances the discovery of disease mechanisms, risk factors, biomarkers, and drugs for the understanding, detection, tracking, treatment and prevention of neurodegenerative diseases.
The center works to improve patient care by developing innovative therapeutic technologies, imaging acquisitions, imaging analytic tools, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, taking a patient-inspired approach.
The center is poised to become a major international incubator of solution-driven transdisciplinary research, brings together scholars from one of the country's most innovative research universities with experts from SFI’s worldwide community.
The CXFEL Lab brings ultrashort X-ray technology from large scale, expensive multibillion-dollar XFEL facilities at national labs to the university – the place where researchers work with their students on novel discoveries for a small fraction of the cost.
This pioneering center is devoted to confronting the really big questions of science and philosophy.
The Biodesign Institute delivers the future of nature-inspired scientific innovation today for the betterment of human health, community safety and global sustainability.
The Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center seeks new solutions to three topics: generating comparative knowledge of life's diversity; promoting the use of integrative informatics tools; and fostering direct and virtual learning experiences with biodiversity data and specimens.
Bob Ramsey Executive Education is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of the people and organizations that serve communities.
The Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology (BRAIN) Center is an industry/university cooperative research center at Arizona State University and the University of Houston. This partnership allows for rigorous testing of efficacy, safety and long-term reliability of neurotechnology that would not be otherwise possible within the traditional silos of academic, industry, regulatory and clinical communities.
The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies creates and shares new knowledge in the field of meteoritics and allied disciplines.
The CAOE, led by Arizona State University, develops and applies advanced analytical tools and technologies to enhance planning, information sharing and real-time decision-making in homeland security
CAPS Research advances the profession of supply chain management through outstanding research, unbiased benchmarking, and peer-to-peer networks.
The center's mission is to advance economics so it can better address issues in how to achieve greater economic efficiency.
CAIPER reimagines teamwork and collaboration to transform healthcare.
The Center for American Institutions has a single nonpartisan purpose: Preserving and renewing fundamental American institutions to maintain well-ordered liberty through the fostering and renewal of foundational American institutions including civic, religious, legal, financial, political, military and family.
The Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy aims to foster and support thoughtful, innovative research, policy briefs and forums around the state of American Democracy.
The Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery develops groundbreaking technologies and methods to accelerate discoveries involving the structure and functions of biomolecules, especially proteins.
The Center for Archaeology and Society investigates the organizational strategies, management of resources and technological developments of ancient societies to understand the ways in which they adapted to their environments.
Through research and strategic industry/university partnerships, the Center for Assured and Scalable Data Engineering (CASCADE) develops tools and architectures for reliable and timely data-driven decision making.
CBBG applies bio-mediated and nature-inspired techniques to create sustainable, resilient and environmentally compatible solutions for recovery of natural resources and construction, repair, and rehabilitation of civil infrastructure systems.
The Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR) strives to understand past peoples by examining their health, heritages, identities, ideologies, diets and patterns of mobility.
The Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society translates insights between computer science and biology, with a focus on understanding and mitigating malicious behavior in complex systems
The Center for Biodiversity Outcomes brings together individuals and groups — from academic, nonprofit, policy and corporate sectors — to achieve common goals of biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in the 21st century.
The Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors develops new detection technologies for biomedical and environmental health research, build wireless personal sensors for mobile health applications and explore fundamental natural phenomena at the single-molecule level for next-generation detection technologies.
The Biodesign Center for Bioenergetics focuses on improved diagnosis and treatment for diseases caused by mitochondrial defects.
The Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis carries out frontier multidisciplinary scientific research designed to use biological and biologically-based artificial systems to address societal energy needs in a sustainable manner. The center places an emphasis on solar energy conversion and bioinspired energy transformation to meet human needs, and investigates other aspects of photosynthesis that affect society and the environment.
The Center for Biological Physics (CBP) conducts research into biological phenomena using the tools and methods of physics. Key interests span biomolecules, systems biology and cellular dynamics.
The Center for Biology and Society promotes research, education and engagement related to study of the life sciences and their interconnections with society.
Researchers in the center address cell-to-cell variations in physiological parameters by conducting studies to quantify cellular activities such as respiration and gene expression at the single-cell level.
A research organization specializing in developing and implementing inclusive and equitable educational strategies specifically for underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
The Center for Carbon Efficient and Advanced Manufacturing of Materials and Structures (CAMMS) aims to advance breakthrough technologies toward sustainable and efficient infrastructural materials manufacturing and infrastructure construction.
The Center for Child and Family Success is an interdisciplinary research center focused on producing pioneering research on the structures and processes that impact daily life for children and families in a rapidly evolving world.
The Center for Child Well-Being advances child and family well-being.
The Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) is an interdisciplinary research center focused on human-centered multimedia computing on assistive, rehabilitative and healthcare applications.
Specializing in applied economic and demographic research with a geographic emphasis on Arizona and metro Phoenix, the center conducts research projects under sponsorship of private businesses, nonprofit organizations, government entities, and other ASU units.
The center represents a shift from rules- and inspection-based safety assurance to prognostics-based risk management based on a unique approach combining information fusion, probabilistic physics-based learning, and large network computing and communication to support decision-making process.
The Center for Constitutional Design promotes nationwide conversations about constitutional reform and the advancement of constitutional democracy. It suggests ways reforms could be implemented to preserve our constitutional system, leverages knowledge of other nations’ constitutions to better understand our own, and convenes, collaborates, and coordinates with citizens, thinkers, commentators, and institutions to achieve these ends.
CCICS supports the research agendas, portfolios, and creative activities of faculty in the arts, humanities and cultural studies.
The center develops mission-relevant approaches and effective decision-oriented tools for policymakers and implementers, drawing upon faculty expertise and connections with the defense, security and diplomacy communities.
The Center for Digital Antiquity is dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of irreplaceable achaelogical data and broadening access to the data.
The ETX Center brings science educators, technologists, artists, and ASU faculty and researchers together to design and build digital learning experiences.
The center helps the auto industry transform ground vehicles to be more efficient, environmentally sustainable and more connected.
The Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security (CEMHS) is a university-wide interdisciplinary hub for the research and practice of emergency management and homeland security.
The Center for Entrepreneurship in the W. P. Carey School of Business makes entrepreneurship accessible and applicable through experiential learning built on real-world opportunities.
The Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy (CEESP) develops research in environmental and resource economics that is relevant to policy needs. Special attention is given to issues of sustainability in the context of environmental, energy, climate, and resource management.
The Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering works at the regional, national and global scale to better understand and manage key environmental determinants of human health and global sustainability.
The ASU Center for Evolution and Medicine is a university-wide presidential initiative with a mission to improve human health by establishing evolutionary biology as an essential basic science for medicine, worldwide.
The Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture explores the role film and media play in shaping popular culture, human values and global communications.
The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics is developing an integrated understanding of microbiomes. Our goal is to establish general functional principles that can explain and predict the behavior of microbial communities for a variety of applications.
The center actively drives the discourse and experiences of underrepresented girls in STEM by owning, generating and critiquing the collective body of scholarship on girls of color and STEM education.
The Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science leads spatially-explicit scientific and technological research focused on mitigating and adapting to global environmental change.
The Center for Global Health advances the ability to understand and address global health challenges as a critical, complex part of the broader human condition.
The Center for Health Information and Research (CHiR) is a resource, tool and collaborator for individuals and organizations that need comprehensive health care information and data analytics for public, private and research uses.
CHPDP conducts translational research, training and outreach in close partnership with communities to improve health and prevent disease in vulnerable populations.
The Biodesign Center for Health through Microbiomes creates fundamental knowledge to develop microbe-based health interventions and diagnostics for better human health.
The Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming (CHART) is a multidisciplinary center leading the charge to develop methods to assemble the most effective human-synthetic agent teams in support of national security.
The Center for Hydrologic Innovations advances the mission of water managers and decision-makers for the benefit of industry and society by developing leading-edge technologies for sensing, predicting and analyzing water resources.
The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands is an Indigenous space at ASU where we constellate stories, knowledges and language across our many borderlands through strategic and exploratory modes of research, conversation and performance.
The Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy creates novel therapies for cancer and infectious diseases.
The Center for Indian Education continues its longterm commitment to tribal nations of Arizona and to ASU, while expanding its emphasis on world-class research, the preparation of a new generation of Indigenous scholars, and an involvement with a global community of scholars, policy makers and practitioners in Indigenous education.
The center addresses challenges in global development, one of the greatest moral and political imperatives of our time.
CIHRA focuses on innovative wellness, strength-based, and resilience- and capacity-building research opportunities that translate into positive change.
The Center for Innovation in Informal STEM Learning (CIISL) brings communities together to understand our world and shape the future.
The Biodesign Center for Innovations in Medicine is committed to developing technologies that could transform health care.
The Center for Jewish Studies contributes to the production of new, collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarship in Jewish studies. It offers an innovative model for the inclusion of a Jewish perspective into relevant academic disciplines and academic units, and assumes a leadership role in educating the public about Jewish history and culture, from antiquity to the present.
The CLAPR fosters and supports thoughtful, objective and innovative research on the political and policy circumstances of the nation’s Latina/o-Hispanic population, creating a fuller, deeper understanding of politics and governance in the United States.
The Center for Law, Science and Innovation is uniquely positioned as an innovator in teaching and applying science, technology and law.
The Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution focuses on the specific mechanisms that govern evolutionary change, starting with the building blocks of cells.
The center strives to change the world into a more compassionate and inclusive place by creating a mindful, welcoming culture of caring and belonging.
The Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics is designing biomimetic materials at the molecular level to develop a versatile biomimetic toolbox.
CNS-ASU develops programs that integrate academic and societal concerns to better understand how to govern new technologies, from their birth in the laboratory to their entrance into the mainstream.
The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions is an internationally-recognized thought leader and pioneer in carbon dioxide removal technology and policy development. Through transdisciplinary research programs, the center invents, innovates, and produces fundamental knowledge in sorbent design and manufacturing; systems design, integration, and deployment; carbon dioxide utilization and sequestration; and political and socioeconomic impact assessments. Our educational and mentoring activities are creating the next generation workforce needed within the new carbon economy.
CORD promotes, supports and conducts high impact, use-inspired organization design research.
The Center for Photonics Innovation gathers a large group of faculty members from various disciplines to foster new ideas and to carry out collaborative research with enhanced inspiration.
The Center for Problem-Oriented Policing advances the concept and practice of problem-oriented policing in open and democratic societies.
The Center for Public Health Law and Policy explores emerging global and domestic issues in public health law, policy and ethics.
The Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice provides valuable and timely residential and commercial market information for realtors, developers, home owners, and news media, helping stakeholders understand market complexities and make better policy and business decisions.
The Center for Science and the Imagination brings writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists to reignite humanity’s grand ambitions for innovation and discovery. It serves as a space for productive collaboration between the humanities and the sciences, bringing human narratives to scientific questions, and exploring the full social implications of cutting-edge research.
The Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies conducts research, evaluates policy, and develops solutions for some of the world’s most pressing challenges at the nexus of scientific, societal, technological, and environmental change.
CSL is a globally recognized authority on how to compete strategically through the profitable use of services. CSL concentrates on expanding service innovation by combining the latest scientific insights from the academic world with the best of business strategy in the real world.
The Biodesign Center for Single Molecule Biophysics is developing new methods for single-molecule DNA sequencing. They are interested in how genes work and would like to study the way in which proteins change DNA structure to switch genes on and off.
The Center for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (CSMB) in the School of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TIE) in the W. P. Carey School of Business at West Valley Campus is dedicated to supporting and empowering small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) in their growth and sustainability. It will serve as a vital resource hub, providing specialized programs, research, experiential-learning for students and networking opportunities to address the unique challenges faced by these enterprises.
The Center for Smart Cities and Regions’ (CSCR) mission is to advance urban and regional innovation to make more inclusive, vibrant, resilient and sustainable communities.
The center use interdisciplinary research to determine the algorithms of social dynamics across diverse contexts, ranging from genomes to entire organisms, and from individuals to cultures.
The CSC is an interdisciplinary group of scholars at ASU and partner institutions who are interested in applying knowledge of human communication to issues of countering ideological support for terrorism (CIST), diplomacy and public diplomacy, propaganda and disinformation, and public health.
The Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing integrates the concepts of green chemistry and sustainable engineering practices across the continuum of materials innovation to provide the products we need for a sustainable life.
The Center for Sustainable Tourism conducts research for communities who manage, market and host visitors in an ever-changing tourism industry.
The Center for the Study of Futures offers futures research, experimental practice and innovative foresight training for diverse audiences.
The Center for the Study of Guns in Society is a first-of-its-kind initiative that brings social science approaches to the gun debate and forges a forum for those across the debate to engage, learn, and elevate.
The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) facilitates powerful and informed dialogues about race and democracy.
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict advances multidisciplinary research and education on the religious dynamics of conflict and peace.
The Center for Tribal Digital Sovereignty is the first and only center in the U.S. dedicated to assisting Tribal governments, leadership and communities in understanding the complexities of digital sovereignty, providing access to resources and serving as a clearinghouse for Tribal digital sovereignty.
The Center for Urban Innovation improves the quality of life in neighborhoods, cities and urban regions.
The Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety evaluates policies and programs, analyzes and evaluates patterns and causes of violence, develops strategies and programs, develops a clearinghouse of research reports and “best practice” models, educates, trains and provides technical assistance, and facilitates the development and construction of databases.
The Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures (WISCA) places ASU at the research and development nexus of the next wireless revolution.
The Center for Work and Democracy helps rebuild the politics that reflect the aspirations and policy priorities of working people.
The guiding north star of the Center of Building Innovation is the inter-related issues of social and climate justice in the built environment. To affect change, CoBI will bring together faculty and students from all disciplinary units related to the built environment at Arizona State University into one center to work across all three enterprises.
GSI’s Narrative, Disinformation & Strategic Influence Center conducts interdisciplinary research that develops tools and insights for decisionmakers, policymakers, civil society groups, and communities in order to support holistic defenses against information-related threats to global democracy.
The center contributes to the understanding of how technology’s potential for innovation is realized in government and society, and explores roadblocks or negative effects that must be addressed. The center looks at how to leverage for the public good the information and data made possible by technological advances.
The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) program advances research and education on urban ecology and urban socioecological systems.
The ASU Art Museum is a meeting point for the exchange of new ideas, perspectives and experiences among artists, students and the public through exhibitions, residencies, collections and programs.
The ASU Biodesign Clinical Testing Lab tracks critical COVID-19 trends and partners with the state to provide public testing.
Leverages trans-disciplinary relationships to address complex global challenges in health, sustainability, security and education by creating entirely new technologies and novel solutions.
Connection One is a National Science Foundation industry/university cooperative research center that is at the forefront of developing the next generation antennas, low-power computer chips, advanced transistor models and multiple-function circuitry to enhance technologies ranging from cellular to environmental and defense applications.
The Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes is an intellectual network aimed at enhancing the contribution of science and technology to society’s pursuit of equality, justice, freedom, and overall quality of life.
Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) was established with an investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) program. DCDC’s mission advances knowledge about decision making under uncertainty in the context of water sustainability and urban climate-change adaptation.
The Decision Theater organizes researchers, policymakers and the business community to better understand and visually explore solutions to complex issues facing society. Using data analytics and high-performance computing to drive software-integrated models, Decision Theater works with transdisciplinary partners to streamline big data and transform it into novel, interactive data visualizations.
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism improves the quality of media coverage of business and the economy.
The Family Violence Center is a non-partisan center that engages in research, public policy work, program evaluation, and education and training designed to eradicate family violence.
The global future of water is about abundance and opportunity — not scarcity.
The Future Security Initiative explores the social, political, economic and cultural implications of the changing character of war and conflict.
The Global Center for Applied Health Research designs, implements and tests evidence-based and culturally appropriate interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children, youth and families around the world through equitable research collaborations between transnational teams of researchers and community partners.
The mission of GCTT is to advance a broad, interdisciplinary, multi-sector understanding of the effectiveness of technology transfer. An emphasis is placed on global issues in research, practice and education.
The Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes is a global network that advances solutions to sustainability problems through research, development and capacity building. GCSO generates and tests a wide range of solutions including technologies, policies, economic incentives, social change and cultural practices.
ASU’s Global Drylands Center engages key actors of dryland stewardship to develop use-inspired research, training and solutions for arid ecosystems around the world.
The Global Locust Initiative engages key actors in locust research and management to develop partnerships and solutions for transboundary pest management in agroecosystems around the world.
The Global Security Initiative (GSI) leverages ASU’s faculty expertise, global reach, student body and culture of innovation to drive advances in security and defense-related technologies and educational efforts.
The institute advances research and business practices for an urbanizing world.
Healthy Urban Environments is a collaborative initiative which combines the power of Arizona State University’s entrepreneurship, research and innovation infrastructure with partnership, support and collaboration from Maricopa County and its communities.
The HRC performs basic and applied research on a broad range of topics related to Hispanic populations, disseminates research findings to the academic community and the public, engages in creative activities and makes them available generally, and provides public service in areas of importance to Hispanics.
The Humanities Institute serves the humanities research and engagement missions of Arizona State University through the study, promotion, and advancement of human cultures.
The Humanities Lab provides students with the opportunity to engage in hands-on research on compelling social challenges of interest to today’s students while working with others who are also invested in making a difference.
ISSR advances the research mission of the social sciences at ASU, and helps students and faculty develop the research skills needed in today’s world.
IFIS help embody ideas about innovation, knowledge and future across ASU and develop them broadly throughout society, through an ambitious and integrated agenda for education, training, research, outreach and engagement.
The Institute of Human Origins pursues an integrative strategy for research and discovery. The institute bridges social, earth and life science approaches to the most important questions concerning the course, causes, and timing of events in the human career over deep time.
The interplanetary initiative deploys new ways of building teams and solving problems, at scale, partnered across disciplines, sectors, and cultures to shape an inclusive and sustainable interplanetary future.
Shaping tomorrow, today.
The Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is committed to solving perplexing problems through use-inspired research that builds community resilience.
The Kyl Center for Water Policy promotes research, analysis, collaboration and dialogue to build consensus on sound water stewardship for Arizona and the West.
LightWorks pulls light-inspired research at Arizona State University under one strategic framework. It is a multidisciplinary effort to leverage ASU’s unique strengths, particularly in solar-electric energy, sustainable fuels and products, and energy and society.
The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is shaping an agenda focusing on humane technology and ethical innovation.
The Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center expands efforts to understand the nature of conflict and its impact on the effectiveness of dispute resolution.
The Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute summer program trains undergraduates through cutting-edge research and intensive mentoring experiences in the applied mathematical sciences.
Through programs that address security, economic opportunity, freedom and human dignity, the institute convenes thought leaders to discuss solutions, build capacity among local leaders and create advocacy to propel values forward.
The Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies advances research, teaching and outreach on the languages, societies and geopolitics of greater Eurasia.
The Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering seeks to provide the basis for understanding, designing and managing the complex integrated built/human/natural systems that increasingly characterize our planet in the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans.
The institute is a leading resource for relevant research and informed policy choices of public value, with rigorous adherence to facts and data.
The Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) engineering research center leverages expertise and emerging technology to develop innovative off-grid water systems. With a goal to protect human life and promote sustainable economic development, NEWT creates technological and social systems that ensure well-being for those who need it the most. NEWT has resulted in several ASU patents, a start-up company, and works with numerous start-ups and industries with significant manufacturing or job presence in Arizona.
The NCE provides customized management strategies and technical advice to local and regional governments, industry and NGOs seeking to incorporate sustainable technologies and organizational strategies for economic, social and environmental benefits.
The Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe (MotU) unites cosmology, astrophysics, astronomy, planetary science and exploration, mineralogy and petrology, materials science and engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology to address grand questions of the complex chemistries and evolution of planets.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is a community of engaged learners discovering the joy of lifelong learning.
The center serves as a dynamic, student-centric hub of activity that promotes, publicizes and encourages political engagement and public service among ASU students and the broader community.
In face of depleted natural resources, environmental degradation and profound inequality, the Biodesign Pathfinder Center focuses on adapting education to foster critical scientific thinkers, capable of understanding anything, moving seamlessly between disciplines and collaborating with others for innovation.
PSERC is a university-industry cooperative research center with 13 universities and 24 industry members. PSERC creates an environment in which universities and industry work together to promote and enable collaboration, to provide a forum for exchange of information and ideas, and to create solutions to complex and diverse problems facing the electric power industry.”
The mission of the ASU REACH Institute is to bridge the gap between university-based research and practice to promote children’s mental and physical health and academic achievement.
The RISE Center promotes equity in the experiences of undergraduates in STEM through innovative education research conducted at scale.
A unique transdisciplinary "think lab" where creativity, collaboration, education, engagement and scholarship come together to transform how we see, think and act on risk within society.
Rob and Melani Walton, through the Walton Family Foundation, invested in Arizona State University to initiate programs that would develop use-inspired knowledge to solve sustainability problems, educate leaders and implementers, and engage people globally to innovate and take risks to create a more sustainable world.
The STAM Center investigates new technologies and methodologies to offer opportunities for designing secure computing devices and systems that go beyond what is currently achievable. The center couples its research mission with active recruiting and training of students, especially domestic students, targeting applications of national security importance.
The L. William Seidman Research Institute collects and disseminates essential information about local economies and benchmarks industry practices, and identifies emerging business research issues. In addition, it serves as an economic research and consulting resource for a variety of public and private clients of all sizes and across multiple industries.
The SenSIP Center develops signal processing and machine learning algorithms for sensing applications with an emphasis on next -generation industry technologies. Application areas include embedded sensor systems, health, sustainability, computational imaging, security, environmental technologies, and wireless communications.
The Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center (Levin Center) is a research center that encourages quantitative scientists and mathematicians from all corners of the university to focus on research driven by “solutions” rather than “disciplines.”
SIRC's interdisciplinary team of researchers partners with communities to conduct research and develop solutions to eliminate health disparities in the Southwest and beyond.
SPARC advances the science and technology of GIScience and earth observing and leads the transdisciplinary application of spatial data science solutions for addressing novel and impactful research questions.
The Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family was established to address the urgent needs for affordable housing in the Valley of the Sun — recognizing that affordable, quality housing is critical to healthy and sustainable communities.
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global non-profit organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products.
The Sustainable Cities Network is a vehicle for communities to share knowledge and coordinate efforts to understand and solve sustainability problems. It is designed to foster partnerships, identify best practices, provide training and information, and create a bridge between ASU’s research and front-line challenges facing local communities.
The Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance (SPA) is North America’s central forum and advocate for the sustainable use, recovery and recycling of phosphorus in the food system.
The Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology aims to be the world’s leading center for environmental biotechnology by producing fundamental and applied scientific concepts, technologies and field-leading people.
Together, we drive social progress, economic productivity and ecosystem resilience through food systems transformation
The mission of the T. Denny Sanford Harmony Institute is to promote children’s well-being and relationships with the people in their lives.
The Asia Center at ASU is home for research, teaching and other resources about Asia.
The Center for American Civics aims to provide resources to learn more about this country's history, foster discussion about today's most contentious topics, and offer life-changing volunteer opportunities.
The Difference Engine pairs interdisciplinary entrepreneurship with the enthusiasm of ASU students and thought leadership of ASU faculty and staff to fix our nation’s greatest inequalities.
Kaiteki identifies strategic social needs, pursues creative innovation in chemistry, materials, processes, devices and systems, as well as underlying new science and technologies.
The Water Institute combines multidisciplinary academic research on observation, data analytics, technologies, and decision making in complex systems with solutions-based fieldwork to develop and test creative responses to water challenges faced by communities to nations around the world.
The TOMNET research team creates and tests a variety of innovative and practical data-driven approaches to advance sustainable transportation solutions by fostering a deep understanding and prediction of traveler behaviors, values and attitudes.
The Urban Climate Research Center employs a collaborative social/physical science framework to address critical issues in the urban atmospheric environment.
The vision of the UREx SRN is to promote the transition to cities of the future that are resilient by virtue of their flexible, adaptable, socially equitable, and ecologically based infrastructure in the face of a higher incidence of extreme events, more culturally diverse communities, and continued urbanization pressure.
The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing is a non-academic university center dedicated to offering talks, readings, classes, workshops and other literary events and programs for the larger community.
The Biodesign Center for Personalized Diagnostics aims to create better health through early detection and treatment.
The National Science Foundation Water and Environmental Technology Center promotes scientific research that will ensure the quality of water by pooling the resources of the university and industry.